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Meet the Moms Who Home School at Disney World

Lesson plans include practicing Spanish with princesses and budgeting for churros; fireworks are a bedtime alarm

Jordan Ashley reads to her daughters at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom.
Jordan Ashley reads to her daughters at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Photo: Jordan Ashley

By

Meg Tanaka

For most children, school means crammed classrooms, soggy sandwiches and bell schedules. For some, it means doing workbooks at Cinderella Castle, writing thank-you letters to Rapunzel and grabbing fresh churros during snack break.

These are the Disney home-schoolers—parents who’ve swapped schoolbuses for monorails and now treat the parks as a classroom.

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