Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

The web site of New Jersey’s Courier News and Home News Tribune reports:

Kevin Fritz is one of two U.S. students to win a spot in February’s National Taiwan Science Education Center competition in Taipei after a May competition in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in Atlanta … Fritz and his sister, Kathleen, 13, have been home schooled for the past six years. Kevin was in 5th grade and Kathleen was in 2nd grade when their parents, Pat and Carl, a statistician and owner of township-based Fritz Consulting, started … “The public school services which were being offered to them didn’t match their needs,” Pat Fritz said. “Academics became the reason we decided to home-school — we needed to provide a more challenging academic environment for them…”

But in this case, academics doesn’t mean textbooks. Kevin Fritz, for example, contacted an expert in his field of interest, and offered to work as his research assistant. The article is well worth reading for insight into how the Fritz family used homeschooling freedom to create their own educational path.

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