A Year 11 student doing homeschool wants to follow suit to his father's footsteps as a businessman, and his learning real early as he now makes $30,000 annually without having to quit school.
Maverick Valle declares he is not going to use his time idly and wait until he is 18 before he steps into the businessworld and earns his own money. Instead, he chose to homeschool and go headfirst into the world of entrepreneurship, the same world his dad is into.
Currently the 16-year-old student from Melbourne, Australia, is already making an estimated amount of $30,000 in a year. He earns this from doing marketing and sales for his father's businesses - Bells Surf Wax and Techtify, his IT company.
"I know I want to work in dad's businesses full time when I finish school, but I thought, why wait till I'm 18 and bum around in a classroom for another couple of years? Why not start now? I love learning about business and how it's done, and obviously, making decent money at my age is great too," Maverick expressed.
Positive effects of homeschool
Maverick spoke up about choosing homeschool as the best decision he could ever have made, wanting to erase the stigma on homeschooling.
He shared that he does not have anything against going to school. In fact, he likes going to school. He just came to a point one day that he realized he would not be able to learn what he wanted to learn from it anymore.
With homeschooling, he is able to graduate and get his Victorian Certificate of Education next year, which he stressed is important to him, but at the same time, it gives him the flexibility that he needs, especially in terms of schedule and time, to go to his office and do his work. A perfect "headstart on a professional career," News.com.au reported.
Further, he expressed that he would "definitely recommend" homeschool to co-students and teenagers who are planning to have a job and dropping out of school to have one.
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Parents now see the benefit of homeschooling
Maverick's parents fully support his decision. They agree with their son that homeschool is an "excellent alternative" to wholly dropping out of school,
His father, Brent, shared that his son's decision allowed the family to save on school fees, gain business capital and spend more time together and have a close relationship with each other.
Brent revealed that he has already saved almost $20,000 in school fees. More than that, he is able to spend more time with his son, teaching him real-life and business skills that he would not be able to learn from mainstream school.
Euka, the largest online full time education provider for K-12 students who desire for flexible and relevant education in Australia, is the institution that facilitates Maverick's homeschooling.
Jarryd Van Poppel,CEO of Euka, stated that Maverick is a great role model of "deliberate homeschooling" in terms of flexibility and lifestyle reasons.
Poppel shared that homeschooling has excellently evolved from kids being merely "accidental homeschoolers" to now making their own decision to homeschool knowing that it can give them more than what they can get from in a classroom. Moreover, parents now see the real, genuine benefit of educating their kids themselves and the opportunity to provide them vocational training as well.
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