Reasons I am glad we homeschool: “Tardiness & Truancy”
Karri Weathers recently wrote about the concerns of tardiness and truancy in the education blog. She makes excellent points on how tardiness and truancy can disrupt the class, and that it is often the fault of the parents, especially in younger children. When my kids were in school, we usually missed a week or two each school year because our extended family was so far away, and so we would visit them when we could best afford. This may have meant traveling early before the rates went up for holiday season, or taking a random week, when flights would be … Continue reading