"Home schooling allows me more flexibility with job and offers the best education at the time for my kids," said mother Tracy Hodges of Maryland Heights.

Traci Hodges works about 30 hours a week running her own consulting business and managing a small production company. She recently finished a master's degree in human development counseling.

On top of it all, she finds time to home-school her oldest daughter. Make that, she and her husband, Harlan, who is an emergency room doctor at DePaul Hospital. The Maryland Heights couple split the responsibility.

As two working parents, the Hodges are a far cry from the stereotypical home-schooling family with a stay-at-home mom, ultra-conservative moral and religious values and a fierce belief in the right to keep government out of their lives.

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By Kavita Kumar

Article Source: St. Louis Today