When Brynnan Toner and her husband were starting a family, the couple bought a home in the Lower Merion School District.

“The plan was public school,” Brynnan Toner said. “ We chose a house based on the school district and that was the plan. ”

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When her oldest child was in Kindergarten, she says, he had a rough time learning and didn’t like school.

Then that spring, the COVID-19 pandemic sent him home and he finished his school year virtually – like millions of kids across the country.

“It was a little bit of an opportunity for us to rethink: ‘OK, what do we want to do and what should his educational experience look like?’”

The Toners decided to give homeschooling a try for the 2020-21 school year,

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