Fourteen years ago, Lara DeRoule needed a break.
She had been a Pre-K-2 teacher for 15 years, both in Mesa Public Schools and a small private school, but tired of the bureaucracy of a public school system and decided to become a dental hygienist.
âIt just was a bunch of testing at that time where I felt like we werenât really using what we found out,â the Gilbert woman said.
Now, DeRoule is back in school â her own.
Two years ago, she started Dynamic Micro School, riding on a wave of a growing interest in small-group schools that are neither charters nor public and that aim for home-schooled children from Pre-K level to sixth grade.