Lisa Cupid said home-schooling her children has given her an opportunity to get to know them better than she would otherwise. - Aleks Gilbert
Homeschooling, before
and during a pandemic
By Aleks Gilbert
agilbert@mdjonline.com
Several years ago, Lisa
Cupid was invited to speak
before a cluster of homeschooled
children.
At the event, parents gave
their children certificates of
completion, a kind of diploma.
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One big, boot-wearing,
tattooed father handed a
diploma to his daughter and
addressed her with such
pride, it changed the way
Cupid, then a new member
of the Cobb Board of Commissioners,
would educate
her own children.
“We thought it was such
an odd thing,” Cupid said
of home schooling. But that
father’s admiration for his
daughter “was just so palpable.
It almost moved me
to tears … I was touched
by that, like, who gets that
excited about their children
learning something? That
made me think: maybe
there’s something more to
it.”
FLEXIBILITY
Cupid’s children — Noah,
10, and Nehemiah, 11 —
learn in a hybrid arrangement,
in which part of their
instruction is done at home
and another part is done at
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