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These Schools Are Seeing a January Enrollment Surge

Microschools and other new learning models make it easier for dissatisfied students and families to shift to a new school midyear.
These Schools Are Seeing a January Enrollment Surge
Lisa Swinson via FEE
Kerry McDonald
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Kara Fox did not want to wait. A mom of two, she was frustrated by the fall semester at her children’s traditional private school near Omaha, Nebraska—particularly for her 12-year-old son, Gavin. “He just felt so hopeless already in the second quarter, before the end of the first semester,” said Fox, explaining that the rigidity of a conventional classroom and curriculum weren’t working well for her son who has ADHD and is on the autism spectrum.

Kerry McDonald
Kerry McDonald
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Kerry McDonald is a senior education fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of “Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom” (2019) and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. She lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her husband and four children.
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