Essays by Alanna Gallo
From the Other Side
Essays from a former teacher on what school is actually doing to kids, and what you can do about it at home. A new essay every week.
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IMACS Math Review: How It’s Going for Two Kids Who Are Ahead in Math
Disclosure: IMACS is a brand partner. They’re covering tuition for my two youngest this fall in exchange for me telling you how…
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Latest essays
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Worldschooling Programs: What We Learned Sending Our Kids to School Around the World
When we first started planning to travel full time, the idea was never to homeschool from a hotel room. The plan was…
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Peer Orientation: Why Peer Culture Is One of the Reasons We Homeschool
When TikTok first took off, every girl in one of my high school classes was on it, and any spare minute, the…
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Homeschooling a Child With ADHD: What I Wish School Had Given Me
I didn’t find out I had ADHD until my forties, and when I look back at school now, I understand exactly why…
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Online Homeschool Curriculum: What to Check Before You Hand Your Kid a Login
I’ve looked at the big online all-in-one programs, the ones parents ask about constantly, like Time4Learning and Miacademy, and I decided against…
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The Homeschool Socialization Question, Answered by a Former Teacher
Public school kids spend every summer away from school, and nobody seems to notice what they do with it. Think about it…
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How We Choose Secular Homeschool Curriculum (and Why You Shouldn’t Start There)
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How to Find Secular Homeschool Groups and Co-ops
Every time we land somewhere new, the first thing I do is go looking for our people. And I’ve done it in…
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What Secular Homeschooling Actually Means (and Why It’s So Hard to Find)
The first homeschooling groups I joined on Facebook were full of church. Church and politics, threaded through every conversation, and it didn’t…
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Our Real Homeschool Schedule (and the Part That Used to Fall Apart Every Day)
Every day in our house looks a little different, and for a long time I thought that was the problem. I thought…
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