Every home school is different because families are different.
Michael Congdon sat at the kitchen table, chemistry book open, listening intently to his mother, Harriet Congdon, explain the difference between molecular and ionic compounds. The seventh grader sat surrounded by four other junior high students. He concentrated on the teacher, his pencil poised. Mrs. Congdon considered school options when she became concerned about Michael, then in first grade. While volunteering in his public school classroom, she observed that her son struggled.