Columbia's own home schooling pathfinders
By Rosanne McDowell
Photography by Jeff Amberg
Circumstances compelled these Midlands residents to home-school their children, but the journey spurred them way beyond the original vision.
Sometimes, it's a case of "have to." You do what you have to do, and one thing leads to another. Such is the case with several leaders in the Midlands home schooling movement: E. Ray Moore, Jr., co-founder of Homeschooling Family to Family; Diana Stevenson, director of Excelsior! Academy; and Zan Tyler, home schooling editor for Lifeway.com. Beginning with the need to home-school their own children – the foundation of all the rest – they have authored books, spoken on home schooling from the Midlands to Japan, lobbied for fair home schooling laws and produced diverse resources for multitudes of other home schooling families. Each began trailblazing for a different reason, but all ultimately worked to the same end: making quality home schooling possible – and legal ...
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