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Reader Stories: Have You Chosen Homeschooling for Your Child With Special Needs?

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Many parents of children with special needs are choosing homeschooling when traditional schools prove unable to keep their students safe and properly educated. Bullies, insensitive teachers, inadequate special-education services, and overall hostility from the system are all things that have caused parents of students with medical problems, learning problems, developmental disabilities, and other special needs to opt out and keep kids home. Have you made that choice for your child? Tell your fellow parents about it here.

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What experiences in traditional school caused you to remove your child and homeschool?
What resources do you use? Does your child attend an online school? Provide some details of your homeschooling program.

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Give your advice for other parents considering homeschooling.

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