The Transition from Homeschooling to Home-colleging Hasn’t Been as Smooth as We Hoped

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4 min readFeb 24

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by Jennie Young and Christopher Shelley

We’ve home-schooled Braedon and Makayla since kindergarten. We always assumed that when the time came we would send our children off to college, but it’s been such an amazing experience for all of us that when Braedon completed his senior year, we thought, “Why not keep going?”

Jennie Young

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Professor and humor writer in Green Bay. McSweeney’s, The Independent, HuffPost, Ms. Mag, Education Week, Inside Higher Ed, Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, others.

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