Ben and Mary Weible have only ever home schooled their two daughters Mary Claire, 18, and Anna Jane, 7.

"I am quite opinionated and trust my wife to give our kids a better education than I would otherwise expect from potentially other sources," Ben Weible told the Lone Star Standard. 

Mary has been home schooling for 13 years. She contracts with Classical Conversations, a North Carolina-based company that now has an international presence, for the curriculum which includes once a week in-person instruction with no more than eight students for lessons in math, Latin, English, science, and history. Mary actually started the first Classical Conversations campus in their home of Rockwall, when the couple's eldest daughter was just 6 or 7 years old. 

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She's noticed an increase in the amount of families becoming interested in taking the home school route for their children since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

"I see it not only in our group and through inquiries directly to our group, but I see it through other homeschool Facebook groups I'm on," Mary Weible said. "There's a lot of people."

Studies have also found a steady increase in families choosing to home school their children. The Texas Home School Coalition cited a a Gallup survey in the Education Daily Wire that found the number of families that would home school their child increased to 10% in 2020, double from the year prior. 

Mary believes it's become more widely accepted than it's been in the past. 

The Wiebles said home schooling was "the right choice" for their family, and thinks it could be for others, too, if they're willing to put in the work.

"You can't just throw your kid of a video and home that it's going to work," Ben said. "I think it takes dedication and commitment."