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Sick of School?
I noticed many benefits the year I home-schooled my daughter - huge academic progress, enhanced social skills, improved family dynamics - most of them more or less expected, but there was one benefit that was totally unexpected. That was how healthy the whole family was that year - not one case of flu, no colds, nothing. It was wonderful!
This Canadian Press article discusses the miasma of germs that surrounds schools - and the inevitability of illness after illness - concluding that it's a rite of passage and a way of building up immune systems, and that there's not much parents can do about it.
Except, of course, not send their kids into germ factories in the first place. Perhaps online schooling will turn out to have unexpected advantages....
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