Let me tell you the stories of three homeschooled children. Then, see if you can guess which ones are real, and which ones are made up.
Child A received a wonderful education from loving parents with advanced degrees who homeschooled for secular reasons. He went to college on scholarship with the full support of his parents. He's now a college professor. Child B was homeschooled by loving parents who were Christian fundamentalists and who participated in the Quiverfull movement; she had a dozen siblings. Although she also received a great education and went to college on scholarship, her parents virtually disowned her when she began dating a man they didn't approve of and questioning her religious faith. She's now a graduate student with a successful career, but her relationship with her parents remains strained. Child C was adopted from Ethiopia at ten years old by a homeschooling family of Christian fundamentalists. Her new parents soon classified her as rebellious and began beating and starving her to teach her compliance. Eventually, when she was thirteen, they locked her outside until she froze to death. The parents are now in jail, and their other children are in foster care. Follow me over the fold to see if you guessed correctly!↧