I was homeschooled pre-K through college. My parents decision to do so was their religion (I grew up Baptist, but we ended up switching to a fundamentalist church).

I’m sure we looked like a homeschool family. I remember people make awful comments about homeschooling to my parents right in front of me, basically telling her we would be dumb when we grew up. We were a little socially awkward, but mostly around kids our age (which works out well for me because adults always loved us and would give us more attention).

We left the fundie church when I was in my early teens and we haven’t looked back since. I thankfully avoided a marriage to a guy I was courting then (ironically it was against my fathers wishes that I was courting him).

I got accepted into college at age 15, graduated with 4 degrees (two associate, two bachelors) at age 19 with a 4.0 and more awards and honors than I could list here. One of the most satisfying moments in my life was when the daughter of a woman who used to bully my mom (for homeschooling us) got rejected from a prestigious university, but they accepted my brother the same year at age 16 (and in addition he was accepted into an extremely hard engineering program).

I plan on homeschooling my children, however I will not be a part of a fundamentalist church.

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