When the school is interested in the child

Three things that blew my mind after we left the school system

Heather McLeod
4 min readAug 17, 2023

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When my son’s new best friend announced their family would be homeschooling in September, it was the final straw.

My socially awkward kiddo had worked so hard to build that friendship.

We’d already been through this in grade three. His closest friend left to homeschool and suddenly he had no project partner, no default recess playmate … He struggled and stumbled through his worst school year to date.

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