Michael Jackson's Kids will Continue to Homeschool

by Andrea Hermitt | More from this Blogger

10 Sep 2009 10:40 AM

The latest news from the Jackson clan is that Micheal Jackson's kids will continue to homeschool. Based on words by Joe Jackson shortly after Micheal's death, I was concerned that the kids would be thrown unprepared into yet another new environment, a public school. He said the children needed to have "normal lives" and be with other children and would be enrolled in schools.

Micheal Jackson's mother, however, in her wisdom has decided that the children will continue to homeschool with the help of the private tutors they have always had. Thank goodness for some level of consistency in their lives.

It is also believed that the family has built a play yard complete with a volleyball court for the children's fitness needs.

While some might argue that "celebrity homeschooling is not the same as homeschooling for the rest of us", you cannot deny that Micheal Jackson did the right thing by homeschooling his kids, and that his mother is following that great lead by continuing their homeschool studies.

Even if the family still plans to put the kids in private schools in the long run, it would be wise to homeschool them for at least anther year, to measure them up against the standards of their new school and to give them time to adjust to the major changes in their lives.

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