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...Tigers seemed satisfied with a tie on the road against the powerful Crimson, until Courtney Kitchen broke free on a feed from Reyes and slid the ball past Gunther for the game-winner with 1:15 left on the clock. Despite the loss, Coach Tim Wheaton remained optimistic about his team after the game...
Many of the home-schooling parents we met were religious, but few were home schooling only to instill values. They had come to their decision after a variety of frustrations. Among them: the Fayetteville, Ga., school with 45 kindergartners in one room; the school administrators in Wheaton, Ill., who were so confused over what to do with Sue McCallum's boy that they put him in both remedial and gifted classes; the Glendale, Calif., school where Robert Phillipps' fifth-grader Bill saw too many fistfights...
Which is great, unless you believe that kids should be kids before they are adults. John McCallum, 20, of Wheaton, Ill., began learning at home after fourth grade. On the whole, he valued the experience. But if he could change anything about his teen years, he would want more interaction with people his age. "I don't date, and that's something I attribute to home schooling," he says. Or consider Rachel Ahern, 21, of Grand Junction, Colo., who never set foot in a classroom until she went to Harvard at 18. As a child, she socialized with older kids...
That effort has become a bigger parish hit than bingo. St. James parents like James and Colleen Wheaton now set limits on the number and prices of Christmas gifts for their kids, whether from relatives or from Santa. They use the savings to buy construction material to make more of their own family decorations--together. Ohmer's workshop, says Colleen, "was the first place we could finally legitimize our frustrations...
...Said Wheaton: "Considering how hard we played, the injuries we've had, and the tough schedule we play, there's no shame in losing in the round of sixteen...