This afternoon, I spoke with a friend at work named Joe Sullivan. He has thirteen children all of whom were or are being homeschooled. I told him that we were going to use the RealScience-4-Kids program we found at the Access Research Network website. He told me there is a group in Oregon called the Design Science Association that sponsers “design science” field trips around the state. In looking at the website, it looks like they even take some field trips out of the country.

Today, Kelly’s teacher told Lorena that she would not be allowed to go on the school sponsered field trip at her government school. Lorena let the teacher know that, based on our experience with the school, we did not feel comfortable letting Kelly go on the field trip if Lorena did not also attend. I mentioned this to Joe and he recommended the Design Science Association. It really looks like the homeschool field trips available to us will be much better than anything Kelly has available in her current schooling situation.

I was talking to a guy at work who has homeschooled and is homeschooling all of his 13 children.