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Taking on the Flying Trapeze by Katherine Sims of Weekday High

From: YouthCast
Length: 00:07:50

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You’re probably hearing a whole bunch of back to school nonsense right now: features about homeschooling, tracking, uniforms, extended school hours, curriculum changes.YouthCast takes you to where you want to be in these precious last days of summer: not sitting at a desk in a classroom, but flying 50 feet in the air as you learn how to use the trapeze at circus school. Read the full description.

Trapeze_artist_emma_ward_small Weekday High churns out a bunch of awesome stories every summer, as apart of their high school internship program. Here's Katherine's more "back-to-schooly" piece about homeschooling, as told by the kids who live it and the parents who run it.

The image we used in this post is of Emma Ward, a Wisconsin trapeze artist. You can see more photos from circuses from the late 19th- and early 20th- centuries at the Wisconsin Historical Society's web page. 

You can listen to and purchase the original audio at this link

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Weekday High churns out a bunch of awesome stories every summer, as apart of their high school internship program. Here's Katherine's more "back-to-schooly" piece about homeschooling, as told by the kids who live it and the parents who run it.

The image we used in this post is of Emma Ward, a Wisconsin trapeze artist. You can see more photos from circuses from the late 19th- and early 20th- centuries at the Wisconsin Historical Society's web page. 

You can listen to and purchase the original audio at this link

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