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[quote=Anonymous]A friend of mine homeschooled last year. Her two kids are in 4th and 6th grade. They homeschooled kind of as an experiment that they all wanted to try. My friend was an elementary teacher for 10 years so she has teaching experience.

Overall, they had a really good experience. She found she had to work ten times harder to ensure her kids had the same social and extracurricular activities. It was a lot more work as nothing was organic and everything had to be orchestrated.

They joined a co-op but really didn't mesh with the other families. Just because other people homeschool doesn't mean you will have like minded philosophies or the kids will just get along. It took them a few tries to find other homeschoolers that they clicked with.

Both kids liked it but it was easy for the quiet, introverted one to kind of withdraw and not interact or socialize as much. My friend had to really force social and other activities as this child would have been happy to just always stay home with her - not have friends. The other kid craved the social aspect.

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