A third-generation teacher, Julie Christensen left the classroom in 2010 when her son, who was neurodivergent, needed more support. She began homeschooling while doing education-related writing. It gave her a whole new perspective on education. “In my professional life, I was going around the country and looking at really good schools with a lot of different models,” she recalls. “And then at home with my children, as a homeschooler, I was able to try a lot of things that I was never able to do in public school. And lo and behold, they worked, and my kids flourished.”
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