It was September 1987, and my daughter, my wife, and I opened up a box of kindergarten materials from the Calvert School and so began our homeschooling adventure. For the next 26 years, we were a homeschooling family. After the first couple of years, we abandoned a full-curriculum approach and selected our own materials for math, language arts, history, science, and foreign language. We operated a bed-and-breakfast, where we also lived, and turned one of the second-floor rooms at the back of the house into our classroom, complete with tables and desks for each child. Because Kris taught clinical nursing part-time in nearby Asheville to supplement our income, I did most of the teaching. Though our early days of home education were pre-Internet, we managed to come up with various excellent resources, in part because we also owned a bookstore on Waynesville’s Main Street and had access to various publishers. …