About the Coop
This coop is targeted toward homeschooled families with 12 to 16 year olds who live in the Cary/Raleigh area of NC. Activities focus on exploring a variety of potential career areas through field trips. If you'd like more information about this coop, please email Linda at:
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Career Exploration Coop
Late middleschool and early highschool is a time of exploration, widening interests, emerging opinions, awareness of peers, and the start of "the search for who I am."
As a parent, this is a challenging time as the boundaries start to be pushed, new areas start to be explored, behavior becomes modified by fluctuating hormones,and new relationships form between the parent and "child" (which isn't even the right word any more!).
Homeschooling Challenges
Homeschooling this age group brings its own challenges:
How do you keep your middleschooler involved with others his/her age as his/her interests grow and change?
How do you meet other students in this age range when every family is tied to tighter schedules with less and less flexibility?
How do you help make the highschool years more relevant - both in terms of what is studied as well as the great opportunities that exist for homeschoolers to explore their passions through highschool in ways that aren't possible in traditional school?
How do you find potential mentors in different careers?
This coop is an attempt to meet some of those needs.