# Diabetes and starting school: difficult choices? **URL:** \ **Category:** Child\ **Tags:** school, 504-plan\ **Created:** [May 3, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-and-starting-school-difficult-choices/717 "2017-05-03T17:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![ClaudnDaye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/claudndaye/32/5_2.png) [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-and-starting-school-difficult-choices/717/6 "2017-05-03T17:50:28Z")
> [@Permanent National Parks Pass for diabetics](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/permanent-national-parks-pass-for-diabetics/713/19): > > Also, is there not a chance that your wife might want to go back to work in a few years, given that at least a few of your kids may wind up being in college by then (not sure their ages but I’m assuming)? Homeschooling would push that line down far into the future, possibly indefinitely. Although maybe not – my homeschooling friend actually does two jobs, they’re just on the weekends. And I could see homeschooling for part of the day and working part day if that was an option. My kids ages are 22 (already graduated college / working as a software engineer in Germany), 14 (9th grade), 11 (5th grade), 10 (4th grade), 3 (Liam), 1 (baby). She’ll be at home AT LEAST for the next 4 years…probably more since we’re talking about HAVING ONE MORE (yes…I know we’re crazy)…to hopefully yield her the daughter she’s hoping to have. But after that one, we’re done for sure (even she says so…which is the difference between the previous children.) Our thinking is that, if we can homeschool him through Middle School…he could pick up public education there with the knowledge to SELF manage his diabetes (if the schools even allow this…haven’t checked into it this far yet.) My wife’s plan is to finish her CPA and start a small business working from home managing the books for small businesses around the area. It will provide her with the ability to make her own hours, while still juggling all the craziness that is having a large family. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-and-starting-school-difficult-choices/717)._