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My homeschooling story is complicated by my parents’ entanglement with a fringe religious group, but I was taught that women should NEVER go to school.

I graduate this May with a bachelor’s in Molecular & Cellular biology (4.0!) at the age of 39.

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Like many others, my parent opted for HS because it removed us from society. We had no oversight, no curriculum, no testing. It petered out around the age of 15 when I started working to help our large family make ends meet.

#ExposeChristianHomeschooling
My “curriculum” consisted of the life skills they thought a godly woman would need:

•Lamaze childbirth breathing techniques
•Veggetable gardening
•Food prep & storage
•Quilting
•Sewing

But one skill turned out to be profoundly useful: I learned to read like crazy.
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