Katie Howard, wtop.com

WASHINGTON – September is the time of year when many parents put their kids on a school bus and settle back into a fall routine. But some parents never took a three-month hiatus from this schedule.

According to Jeanne Faulconer of VaHomeschoolers, “not back to school” is a commonly used phrase among home-schoolers this time of year.

“When everyone else is noting the season with back-to-school sales and school orientations, home-schoolers actually mark