As part of the US Air Force 360th Recruiting Group’s efforts to identify potential homeschooled recruits and improve its communication with these students, the unit asked a pair of HSLDA employees to provide insight during a training session last week in Leesburg, Virginia.
HSLDA Blog by Natalie Mack: In my job here at Home School Legal Defense Association, I help military homeschoolers keep going as they navigate some of the same kinds of challenges my own family faced.
“The Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) reports that children in a military family will move six to nine times on average during a school career. That’s three times more frequently than nonmilitary families.”
“Fair winds and following seas” is a common phrase often rendered to a shipmate as she or he retires or encounters another change of station. Read more…