"It was fun to have the freedom to design our own curriculum and tailor it to each child's interests," Jeanne wrote in an e-mail. "We treated learning as something that was done all year long."
Being home-schooled enabled Teresa to develop advanced skills in specialized areas.
"I draw a lot," Teresa said. "Being home-schooled allowed me to really explore that visual medium, which has been hugely formative in my career choices.That skill set would never have come around if I hadn't been home-schooled."
Teresa took classes at the Academy of Art College, more art classes at City College of San Francisco and marine biology at San Francisco State's Tiburon campus, all while in high school.
"It gave me the opportunity to get in the classroom, see what it was like, develop a GPA, which was crucial," she said. "That helped build a resume, a transcript."
While home schooling might bring to mind the solitary image of an individual removed from the normal social network of childhood and adolescence, the McWalters say that is not the case. Jeanne describes it as a communal experience.
"We took coop classes with other home schoolers," Teresa said. "My mother found a network, a community of home schoolers."
(Thanks to Homeschool Buzz)
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