Friday Feature: eXtend Homeschool Tutorial

Colleen HroncichKym Kent is a busy homeschooling mom with six children who range in age from 13 to 24. But when she had a vision for a new program to help other homeschool families, she didn ’t shy away from stepping up and co‐​founding Bridge Elementary Homeschool Tutorial Ministries in 2017. After adding middle and high school classes over the years, the program is now calledeXtend Homeschool Tutorial.While Kym earned an economics degree from the University of Maryland, she says her real education started when she became a homeschooler in 2004. For nine years, Kym and her children participated in a homeschool tutorial program that was aimed at middle and high school students and followed a classical model.One morning, Kym had an idea for a new program. “I knew I wanted it to be a la carte, ” she says because of things that weren’t working in the “all or none” model of her previous tutorial. “There were no models in our area that were academic, a la carte, and for elementary and middle school. ”Kym and her co ‐​founder spent a little over a year planning their tutorial. “We were blown away because we had 63 students the first year, and we kept growing,” Kym recalls. “When covid hit, it made us a nation of homeschoolers —whether you wanted to or not. That enabled people who had been hesitant to see what it was like. Some of them realized they wanted to keep doing this. We had a&nb...
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