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Old 05-10-2019, 10:51 AM
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We had private music lessons. One son is a guitarist who went on to music college and became a worship director. The other son was a gifted violinist.

Also, they danced in the ballet... professional performances. My daughter was a fully trained ballet dancer by the time she was 14 years old. She was also a rehearsal coach for performances such as the Nutcracker, taking the younger students through their numbers every rehearsal. She knew all the choreography for all of the dances in the ballet. My two sons danced and performed too. We never could have given that kind of time to ballet, had they been in school and had the reams of homework and outside assignments every day. But it was a wonderful life for them and our entire family bonded and grew from the ballet.

The question of science: By the time labs were part of the curriculum, we used satellite courses from Bob Jones University. They had the labs we needed to observe. We also ordered our own supplies to do some at home. We erupted the volcano, dissected the worm and frog, etc. And our co-op had science classes available too, for home ed students to take together.

If you miss something in education, your brilliant, resourceful children will pick it up somewhere else. What they are interested in, they will pursue. You can be sure of that.
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