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The Johnson children have no school uniforms, plan their own day schedules and often spend free afternoons at a movie or a part-time job. For area high school students stuck in classes until the late afternoon every day, this routine may sound like a dream.

But for Christina Johnson, 15, and Douglass Johnson, 17, it’s the reality of being home-schooled.

‘‘I just have to get straight up and go downstairs,” said Douglass of the basement turned classroom in his Clinton home. ‘‘But after we get [the assignment] we disappear to the bedroom, the backyard, or wherever [to complete it].”

The pair have been home-schooled their entire lives at the insistence of their mother, Joanne Johnson. Because she runs a daycare program out of her home, it was natural for Joanne to begin instructing her children at an early ago…

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