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Welcome back to Skate Stories.
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Today we're talking with Brooklyn.
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Let's start with you.
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Tell us where you're from, a little bit about what your life looked like growing up homeschooling.
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Okay, um, I'm originally from Washington State.
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I grew up there for 13 years, and then we moved out to South Carolina.
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I've been homeschooled my entire life by my mom and with my four brothers, and it's been great.
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Oh, that's amazing.
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So looking back, how would you describe your homeschool experience?
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Um, it's always been pretty uh freeing in a way.
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We've always, my mom has always given us different kinds of curriculum, asked us what we've wanted to do.
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So over the years, I've gotten to do a lot of different subjects that I've been really interested in, like music appreciation, our art appreciation, our sign language, different things like that.
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So it's been really fun kind of choosing my own subjects.
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Oh, that does sound like fun.
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So, what have been some of your favorite classes so far?
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Music, art, sign language.
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Music, art, and sign language have been some of my favorites.
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I also did some piano in my early high school years as an elective.
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Um, I've also loved doing, we did geography at 1.2, which I really enjoyed.
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Um, but yeah, my favorite has definitely been music appreciation.
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We just kind of study an artist and learn all about them and all of all those kinds of things.
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That was really fun.
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That does sound like fun.
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Is there a particular project or paper that you remember from that class that you really enjoyed?
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Um, I don't remember a particular one, but I remember what we would do is we would get this like ginormous paper and like roll it out, and we take turns like searching up all these different facts and like writing them down in little columns and figuring out all these things, and by the end we'd have this massive paper on a singer or a band, and it would have all of these interesting facts, and we'd listen to some of their music, so all of them were fun to do.
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Oh, that does sound like fun.
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I love how your learning experience has been more than just read this book, take that test.
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Yeah.
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So, what made your family decide to homeschool?
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Do you know if there was a moment or a challenge that led to the switch?
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Um, well, growing up, my mom kind of went back and forth in schooling.
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So she did have some homeschooling experience because her mom homeschooled her and her siblings.
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But my dad growing up was like completely public school.
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That was how he always was.
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And when they got married, my dad was like, we are never homeschooling our kids.
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It's never happening.
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But then by the time they had kids and we were about to start schooling, the public schools, especially in Washington State, were just like so corrupt.
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They had none of the same beliefs that we did, that it was like, yeah, this is not where we want to put our kids in.
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This is not where we want them to be raised.
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So then they decided, okay, I guess we're gonna be homeschooling our kids now, and that's how it's been ever since.
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That is fantastic.
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Do you ever wish you were in traditional school or are you glad that you've been homeschooled?
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I've been over the years definitely glad to be homeschooled.
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I think I definitely thrive better with the curriculum.
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However, there have been times where I wish I was public schooled simply for just more human interaction because being homeschooled, there's just not quite as many people unless you do a co-op, which we never did because it didn't quite suit us.
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So um that's the only time I've ever wished that.
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But nothing for the actual schooling-wise, just the setting a little bit more.
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Absolutely.
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So lots of people are worried about socialization.
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And so, what does your homeschool community look like?
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Where do you have friends that you get to see?
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Um, yeah, so uh, like I said, we don't do a co-op because it's never been quite suited for our family, never quite worked out, but we ended up joining a couple of troops, which are Trail Life and American Heritage Girls, which are basically just Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, but like a Christian version of them.
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And so that's basically how we've been social with other people and met other like homeschooling Christian families, is through those troops, and that's kind of what our social lives have looked like.
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That's where we've met a lot of the people that are closest to
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us and their beliefs because I've I've you know been to youth groups in different places where I thought I would find people that were like me, but I actually didn't, and I have found that troop is definitely the best place to find those people.
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Um, and I just graduated out uh just last Thursday.
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I had my graduation ceremony from the troop, so now I've graduated out, but I'm still best friends with my friend Lily, who who goes there.
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Um, so that's where yeah, most of my friends have been back in Washington and here.
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I've met a lot of people through troops that I've been best friends with.
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Oh, that's wonderful.
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So, did you go for your Abigail Adams or anything like that?
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Yes, so I joined HG when I was like 11, I think.
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So I was an explorer, so I didn't get my explorer level award.
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But then as soon as I got into the Pioneers and Patriots, I got my Harriet Tubman and then I got my Abigail Adams.
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And actually, I originally planned to get my Stars and Stripes, so I got my Abigail Adams early so I'd have enough time to.
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And then after I completed my Abigail Adams, I realized Stars and Stripes wasn't actually what I wanted to go for.
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I just kind of wanted to enjoy my years and earn the last badges I wanted.
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So then it was kind of nice because my last two years were just enjoying it, all of that stuff.
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Um, so yeah, that was that was fun.
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That sounds like such a fun way to have friends and a community and a social life that reflects your personal values.
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And I love that it is your values.
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It's not this is what mom and dad are making me do.
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So tell us a typical homeschool day in your life.
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Was there a routine or did it change depending on the season or the year?
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Um, it depended a little bit on the year.
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Some years we would do a little bit of each subject each day, and then other years we would kind of focus in on certain subjects on certain weeks.
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Um, but pretty much all of the years of my homeschooling, my mom would make a checklist and it would have either how much of a subject you should do each day or how much you should have completed by the end of the week.
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So mom would wake me up at like 10 o'clock each day, and then I would usually get something to eat, and then I just start working on whatever subjects I had, and I could just pick and choose which ones I wanted to start
with, and at a certain point I would have gone through all of them and completed them for the day.
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So it was it was pretty simple, more self-led than anything, especially as the years progressed.
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I became much more independent.
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Mom didn't have to help me with all these different subjects.
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So that sounds amazing.
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So how did you decide what you were gonna do each day, like where you would start and things like that?
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Yeah, I would usually start with maybe some of my easier subjects are like I would check like my language arts where I'd be like, okay, do I have to like prep out an essay today?
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Or like, do like what do I need to be thinking about?
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Kind of, and I would maybe start it there and be like, okay, I need to be thinking about this book throughout the day, and then I can kind of come together later and plan that out.
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Or I'd look at my science and be like, okay, do I have an experiment today?
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I need to plan that into my schedule.
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Or I would do something easier like word roots and just kind of get it out of the way, which was a lot of just um like suffixes, prefixes, roots, all of that, putting them together.
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It just kind of depended on where where what I was feeling.
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If I was like, I'm ready to tackle the hard subjects, I would start with those.
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Or if I was like, I need to start in something easier and make my way to the harder subjects, then I would do that.
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Just kind of depended on how I was feeling that day.
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I love that.
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So you got to kind of decide, hey, my brain needs to wake up a little bit, so let's start with something easier.
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Or nope, I'm ready for this, so let's dive into the hard stuff and get it done.
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Yes, exactly.
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Like on Monday, I would definitely start with the easier stuff at the beginning of the week, but then by Friday I'd probably be like, okay, come get the hard stuff out of the way.
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Let's let's get all those out of the way.
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I'm ready for the week to be over.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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What is a memory from homeschooling that still makes you smile or maybe even laugh?
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Um, I remember back like when I was way younger.
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I don't remember what grade I was, maybe kindergarten, first grade.
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And for part of my curriculum at the time, I was kind of doing a lot of reading.
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I was beginning to get into reading a lot of books and all of those things.
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And normally my mom taught me, but I think at this point she went to go do some errands, go get some groceries, something like that.
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So my dad was gonna be there while I was reading.
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And I remember I was so excited because I couldn't wait to show him how my reading would have been.
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So I just grabbed like a ginormous stack of books from the bookshelf.
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I brought them over to the couch and I was like, Dad, I'm ready to read.
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And he came over, and I remember him looking at the stack and being like, Whoa, you're gonna read all of those?
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And I was like, Yep, this is what I'm gonna do.
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I'm gonna show you how much I can read with this giant stack of books.
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I was so excited.
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That sounds like so much fun.
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Oh wow.
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So have you always loved reading, or did you ever yes?
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I've always been a big reader.
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My mom's a big reader, my dad isn't, he's dyslexic, but my mom's always been a big reader, and so I've always just kind of loved books.
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And as I've gotten older, I kind of go through swings where like I won't read for like a month.
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Like I won't read anything outside of like my required school books, and then I'll read like 30 books in a couple of weeks.
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Like I'll like just zoom through a ton of them, so I kind of go back and forth.
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That is great.
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Do you ever do the Goodreads annual challenge?
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Yes, I literally just downloaded and made my own Goodreads account like two weeks ago to start doing all of that stuff because my mom has had a Goodreads account forever and I never even thought about getting my own.
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And she was like, you know, you could probably just get your own.
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I think you just need to give your email.
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And I was like, I can do that.
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And I was like, okay, I made one.
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The easy, easy, fun way to get into reading, right?
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Yeah.
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So were there any tough parts about being homeschooled?
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And if so, what helped you get through them?
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I mean, obviously being a little bit lonely because I'm the only girl.
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I have four brothers, and
even though we're close in age, being the only girl, you're still a little bit separated.
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But luckily, the troops was kind of what made that not such a thing, being with other girls my age.
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The other challenging thing is that I'm two years accelerated, and my older brother is one year accelerated, which puts us in the same grade.
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So we've done the same like curriculum for many years, and we have completely different styles of learning.
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Because I will like sit down with a subject and finish all of it, set it aside, done with it for the day.
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But my brother will do like a tiny bit of each subject, and then slowly over time do a tiny bit more, tiny bit more.
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And I have to be like, okay, some of the stuff we have to do together, and I have to just get used to not being like, Okay, are you ready?
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Are you ready?
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Because I know he won't be because he hasn't finished any of the subjects yet.
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He's still working on all of them.
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So I have to get used to this relaxing a little bit on having his help with things.
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I have to be like, okay, just tell me when you're finished.
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Just come to me when you're ready.
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That is fantastic.
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I love how you and your brother and your mom have figured out how to make one curriculum work for multiple learning styles.
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I mean, it sounds like there have been challenges to that.
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Was there ever any like like how did your mom walk you through that?
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Or did you just figure it out on your own?
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My mom was always, I mean, she did some of the overall learning, but that stuff of us going at different speeds was a little bit more our personal kind of challenge.
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Um, just trying to get used to how differently we do things.
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Um, and my mom usually just like, you just gotta be patient and just work with each other.
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That was her favorite phrase.
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Just work with each other.
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Like yeah, that's not that's not gonna help too much, but okay.
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And then it was just yeah, trying to get trying to get used to that.
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I think I only finally was okay with that this final year.
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After all these years, I finally just stopped being aggravated by how slow he was going through every little thing.
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And I was like, Yeah, it's fine.
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I'll just be here relaxing, reading or whatever.
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Just tell me when you're finished and we'll work on it.
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I finally just accepted it.
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So how does it feel being accelerated and graduating two years early?
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It's it's honestly pretty cool because I'm so much younger than most people, because I'm graduating at 16, and then I'll be graduating college with my associate's degree when I'm like 18, maybe just 19.
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So I'll be like really young, which is both cool, but it's also daunting because that means everyone else around me has more life experience.
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They have different things, like they have their licenses, or they've had jobs, different things like that that I haven't experienced yet because I'm too young.
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And so sometimes it's a little bit annoying, perhaps, because I feel like I'm not where I should be because of how different everyone else is.
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Um, so it's kind of kind of a mix of it being really cool and also kind of like, do I actually want to be this accelerated?
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Or is this like what is this, a challenge or a benefit, you know?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I love that honest feedback.
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Thank you so much for sharing.
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So you were homeschooling somewhere else, and then you moved to South Carolina.
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You uh how did that transition go?
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Like, do what was it like working with SKES?
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Did you join SKES right away?
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Do you know?
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Yeah, so we had listed our house in Washington State in like May, and it didn't end up selling until like November.
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But in the meantime, my mom signed up for SKES for that new school year because she knew we would be moving at some point, she just didn't know when.
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So we were signed up for SCAES while still in Washington, and then when we moved in November, we were already signed up, so we were already involved.
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There wasn't any like hard transition because we'd already made that transition while still in Washington, and there wasn't anything too crazy except for homework-wise, because in Washington state, you just have to do like a test at the end of the year and have it on file for if they ever want it.
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And my mom basically just has to say, I'm homeschooling my kids for the year, and that's it.
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Versus for skates, you have to have all these different paperwork, and you have to calculate all the grades and you have to put them in.
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So it was a little bit
different, but I enjoy doing all of that stuff because I'll collect all of the work and I'll sort it all out, and then I'll like tell mom all the grades and she'll calculate them and put them in.
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Um, so I've enjoyed it, but uh, it hasn't really been too hard of a switch, in my opinion.
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It was more it was good because it was our high school years that we started in on SCAES.
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All of our high school years were with SCAES, and it was nice because we could see all of the credits that we needed.
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Back in Washington, I think we would have been a little bit lost not knowing what to do because there wasn't any guidance for that type of stuff.
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And so with SCAES, we could see all the things we needed to do, different curriculums, what electives would actually count, stuff like that.
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So it was really helpful.
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That is amazing.
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So did you ever have a relationship with your SCAES counselor, or was that mostly just between your mom and them?
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Um, Miss Tori is my counselor, and I have reached out to her a couple of different times with different questions.
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Like when I started doing my foreign language, I wanted to do sign language, so I reached out to her and asked her, and she was super nice and said, Yeah, you can do that, and here are some curriculums you could use that will count.
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Um, so she's been super nice.
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I've emailed her a couple of times, and I think I've met her at one of the um uh homeschooling conventions that they had in Greenville, because I've been to a few of those, and I think one of the times she was there, last time she wasn't, so I didn't get to see her, but I think I've I've seen her in person there before.
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Um so yeah, she's been super nice, um, and I have talked to her a little bit, but she's talked to my mom more often than than I have.
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That makes sense.
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That does.
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Has there do you know, have there been any um challenges or anything that Miss Tori was able to help you guys with, like maybe finding that uh curriculum for sign language or something like that?
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Yeah, she was able to give me the curriculums that I needed to that could count and would actually like be worth a credit.
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Um besides that, I think she also just helped like direct us to different things.
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I think my brother, he needed help with one of his subjects.
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I forget what it was.
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It was one of his, I think, electives.
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It might have been his Latin or something.
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They needed to know what curriculum would work, and she was really helpful with that.
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And then she's also really nice.
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Whenever we put in the grades, my mom will usually send her an email saying, Hey, can you just double check everything's good?
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She's like, she's usually like, Yep, everything's good.
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I've approved everything, it's all in, which is super great.
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She's super good about responding really quickly and knowing that everything's, you know, correct.
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Oh, that's great to hear.
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So it sounds like working with SKES and Ms.
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Tori kind of gives you guys a little bit of peace of mind about your homeschooling and simplifies some of the high school records and stuff.
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Yes, personally, for me, that is definitely how I feel about it.
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I totally enjoy all of that stuff.
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Um, my brother Grant is like not involved at all.
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He would be like, eh, whatever.
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And my mom would be like, it's a lot more work than Washington, but I enjoy it personally, as the high schooler, I think it's really great.
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And I'm super impressed that you stepped up and you took responsibility and ownership of stuff and helped your mom out.
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Like that is really speaks highly to your character and the type of person that you are.
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Thank you.
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So, what are your plans for after high school?
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You said associate's degree?
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I'm getting my associate's degree for supply chain management.
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Um, and that's gonna be at Greenville Tech, Greenville Technical College, which is just like 15 minutes down the road for all my in-person classes.
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Um, and I'm starting this fall.
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I originally thought about taking a gap year simply because of how young I am.
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I thought it might be better to start as a little bit of an older student, but then I was honest with myself and realized I'm way too much of a procrastinator.
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And I think if I stopped my schooling, I would never be able to force myself to go back.
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So I was like, I'm just gonna keep going, you know, I'm not gonna stop my schooling, I'll just continue into college and make sure I can actually I'll actually do the schooling and and all of that.
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So yeah, I'll be getting my associate's degree.
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So I think I'll be in
for two, two and a half years because I have five semesters.
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Um, so yeah, that's what I'm gonna be doing.
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That's super exciting.
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So, how did you land on supply chain management?
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I know it's very random.
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I've always known I wanted to be in some part of the business sector because I've always been interested in like leadership, management, finances, logistics, all of those types of things.
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And originally I was debating between having some kind of management role or being a paralegal, which is like a lawyer's assistant basically.
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And I actually shadowed a paralegal office for a day to see what how like they do things, and I realized I think this is not what I'm looking for because I want to be more of the manager and they were being managed.
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And I was like, I think I would get annoyed doing this job, like I would get bored or I'd get tired of this, and so I decided I wanted to do management, and then choosing which one I wanted, just looking at the descriptions that they had for supply chain management, operations management, business management, it just seemed like it was catering best to my leadership skills, and so I was like, sure, let's just go with it.
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Any of these management degrees I would be fine with.
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I think I could do any of them, but this one seems like it's best catered to me, so let's go for it.
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That takes a lot of insight into who you are, and that is super impressive at such a young age.
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I am just blown away.
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You are doing such hard things so well.
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Oh, thank you.
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So if you could speak directly to a student who's unsure about homeschooling, what would you say?
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I would say for someone who's unsure about homeschooling, I would say maybe do some research or talk to people you know who have homeschooled and see how they feel about it.
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Because I think there is some people do better being public schooled.
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It's a better setting for them.
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I think homeschooling is great for people who want to kind of.
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build their own curriculum who feel like the curriculum they're using now just maybe isn't talking to them, isn't working for them, then homeschooling would be great because you can pick and choose your curriculums.
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You can try different ones out.
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You can kind of figure out what works best for you.
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And then you can actually enjoy the school you're doing and actually study subjects you want to instead of just doing the work because you have to do school.
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That sounds like fun though.
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I mean who doesn't want to enjoy what they do every day?
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Yeah.
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What advice would you give to a parent who is thinking about taking their child from school to homeschool?
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I would say first talk to your child because like I said, I know some students really thrive being public schooled and for some there might be a trade-off of saying I want my kid to be public schooled but can they kind of distinguish between what's the schooling and what is the school trying to like tell my kid to do you know like what are my beliefs gonna be and can I stick to those while being public schooled?
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And if your kid can stand by their beliefs but still enjoy public schooling then maybe they stick with it.
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Or maybe if they're having a hard time in school are the curriculum just like not working for them.
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It's like anguish trying to get through it then homeschooling would be the way to go because there's so many options out there.
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Like there are unlimited possibilities for what you can choose that you will be able to find something that works for you undoubtedly in homeschooling it just kind of depends on whether or not you're willing to take that step and be able to like walk with your child and try out some different curriculums and figure out what actually works for you.
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So if you're willing to put the time in then I would say go for it.
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It'll be great.
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That is really sage advice thank you for sharing.
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Is there anything else you want people to know about your journey or about SKES?
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Um about my journey I would say that homeschooling my whole life has really helped me become a more independent person.
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I've just become very like I can think for myself I can use logical thinking I can kind of you know be a leader to people I've just kind of been cultured in all these different things so that I've become this whole new person based off of all of these different curriculums that I've done and now I can just kind of roll with whatever comes my way because I have all these skills now that I've been equipped with and it's a blessing to be able to to have done all that schooling and be prepared for what's coming next.
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That is really great to hear.
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Thank you so much for talking with us today Brooklyn and sharing all of that.
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And thank you for listening today.
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