After watching their lively, intelligent son wither in the class-
room for over a year, Nancy and Bob Wallace took him out of school to teach him at home. Better Than School is one family’s experience with home schooling. It is as much a tale about bureaucratic oppression as it is a chronicle of constant experimentation, excitement, mistakes, and triumphs as the entire family is caught up in the adventure of learning.
This is not an instruction manual for home teaching, but a book of inspiration and encouragement to parents wishing to educate their children — and themselves — in their own unique ways.
For educators and other “experts,” it offers a rare glimpse of the
