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As an example, she points to the memoir Educated, by Tara Westover, the daughter of Idaho survivalists who never sent their children to school. Although Westover learned to read, she writes that she received no other formal education at home, but instead spent her teenage years working in her father’s scrap business, where severe injuries were common, and endured abuse by an older brother. Bartholet doesn’t see the book as an isolated case of a family that slipped through the cracks: “That’s what can happen under the system in effect in most of the nation.”

I watched the entire interview with Tara Westover in this

CSPAN Video< a> and I found that this woman’s life experience totally obliterates O’Donnel’s arguments against Home Schooling.

This woman never got a high school diploma but did get a PhD from Cambridge.

Her older brother taught himself Trigonometry, Algebra and Calculus although he had only one year of high school and then went on to college. He nearly aced the ACT.

This woman is an argument that government schooling is not necessary.

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This woman never got a high school diploma but did get a PhD from Cambridge.

I’m not convinced that was in her best interest. I could see having to work my way through the text of the video which was horribly done, the subtle or not so subtle changes brought on by the college experience which is just K-12 on steroids.