Would you ever sacrifice your career for your children? Crystal Holt may seem like your everyday house wife. She cooks, cleans, and takes care of her family. She enjoys shopping, reading, and watching sports in her spare time. But she has one unique characteristic; she left her career as a registered nurse to home school her son Jonah. Crystal pursued a career in nursing in her early twenties. “I was a newly, stressed out single mother,” she said. “I had a background in nursing and knew that it was my best opportunity to make a good living and support my child.” She would have liked to home school her daughter, but under the circumstances, she decided to enroll her in public school. “I would have had to get permission from her father and he would have never agreed,” she said.…show more content… At first, she was able to home school during the day and work in the evenings. She was a travel nurse, so she would travel to her patients’ homes, while her children stayed with her parents. She loved her patients, but the paperwork became too much of a hassle while home schooling. Her boss didn’t care too much about her home schooling obligations. “He would call meetings in the middle of the day and it would interfere with schooling,” she said. Her boss, also, did not understand the legality of home schooling. She had to send in a letter of intent to the superintendent explaining her planned curriculum. If she didn’t strictly follow the curriculum, a truancy officer could arrest
