A Review of Hybrid Education
We recently moved to a new state. While we found a traditional high school that is an excellent fit for my daughter, we decided to put my son in a hybrid program. After a month, we have pulled him out and will be finishing the year homeschooling. I thought it might be helpful to others to hear some of our reasoning behind these decisions. At its heart, hybrid education is an attempt to mix the best of homeschooling and traditional schooling. It usually involves a couple of days of school and a couple of days of schooling at home each week. Each hybrid school develops independently, however, so they're all different. Others may have vastly different experiences than we did! In our case, we ended up with some issues specific to this particular school, but I also had some difficulties with the hybrid format. I don't think we would have been as quick to pull him if there hadn't been this combination of factors. I could have tolerated my dissatisfaction with the format if we wer...