Homeschool High School Graduation Missouri

So you're plugging along, homeschooling since your kid is five, deciding later to keep him that one extra year because you know some people who have done that, especially with those crazy boys. You're happy to keep him around, not because he is academically challenged, but because you just love homeschooling so much.  Then you blink and he's almost 19 years old and it's his senior year.

Then your kid is going through the homeschool graduation process with something like 75 other kids, and that's just on the Missouri side. There are a bunch more on the Kansas side PLUS all the kids who just don't want to even mess with a graduation ceremony.

So proud of my son, Joel McLoughlin. He wants to go to Police Academy as soon as he is old enough. In the meantime, he's thinking about getting a personal trainer certification, an EMT certification, and of course he's working a job as well.

My husband and I on either side of Joel. Plus Sam and Eva and Callie (front), Michael (back right), and Julia, who is living with us during COVID (far right) and my husband's identical twin Eric (left), who was the only guest (1) we were able to have at the ceremony due to tickets (2) we could have gotten extra tickets, but grandparents are in the older population and chose to stay home. Actually, Aron's parents would have come but my FIL just had some procedure and was recuperating.

The ceremony was originally scheduled for a church in Raytown, MO near where my grandparents lived (my Poppy built the house) in the 1950s through 1970s on Harvard Road. Then it got moved far, far away to Warrensburg, MO. Finally it landed on Raymore-Peculiar High School gym. We found out dream home and moved from Overland Park, KS to Peculiar, MO in 2017, so the high school is about 5 minutes away!