| Fay decided to home school her children when | | | | Fay told her children that they would by no |
| she realized that the school system they were in | | | | means lose their friends. Though they might not |
| was much inferior to her expectations. She did | | | | see them during the school time hours, she |
| not want to leap into anything immediately, but | | | | encouraged them to invite their friends over after |
| did a lot of homework on home schooling and | | | | school or on weekends. Also, as a huge bonus, |
| found that it was even better than she had | | | | Fay informed them that they would be joining a |
| hoped. She realized with relief that with her job as | | | | group of other home schooled children in the local |
| a local property manager , she would still have | | | | area who met at least twice a week for fun |
| plenty of time to educate her children at home. A | | | | activities and study groups. This would be another |
| property manager of the type that she was could | | | | way to form friendships for Axton, and it was a |
| make her own hours, and this is what Fay | | | | way for Lina to have others to study with. They |
| planned on doing in her property manager position. | | | | were both gaining greatly from this situation and |
| Her children, Lina and Axton, were excited that | | | | Fay was very happy when it worked out great. |
| their mother would be able to keep her job as a | | | | After having home schooled for a semester, Fay |
| property manager as well as home schooling | | | | sat her children down to ask them where they |
| them. They had mixed feelings about leaving | | | | stood and how they felt about it. They both had |
| public school. Lina, who was older than Axton, felt | | | | good reports to make. Lina was getting as much |
| that though she had formed many good | | | | study time as she needed, both through the |
| relationships at school that she would miss on a | | | | group they were a part of and through the more |
| daily basis, she had really been missing quality one | | | | devoted teaching time with her mother. Axton |
| on one time with her teacher whenever she had | | | | had made plenty of new friends and even kept |
| a question about schoolwork. She knew the | | | | most of his old ones, seeing them nearly every |
| teacher could not help this, but she would be very | | | | weekend now. He found that you did not need to |
| glad to have her mother for a teacher now, and | | | | go to the same school in order to make a true |
| even with her job as a property manager , still | | | | friendship last. |
| get much needed personal time for help with her | | | | Fay of course was happy because her children |
| schoolwork. | | | | were happy. Had this not been her original goal? |
| Axton, on the other hand, was rather more | | | | She had found the pros of home schooling, and |
| skeptical about it. He was getting to an age when | | | | had tried successfully to make the cons into pros. |
| he had a lot of friends at school, and he did not | | | | Seeing her children happy in their childhood |
| really care so much about his schoolwork. So it | | | | friendships and yet still getting top quality |
| was his friends he felt he would be torn away | | | | education in a stress free environment was what |
| from, and Fay realized he would feel the loss hard. | | | | mattered most to her. |