SCAIHS Stories: Homeschooling in South Carolina

In this episode, Meredith Taylor, the Special Needs Director, guest hosted to help Katina tell her story.  Katina is a widow, full-time working single mother of two teenagers.  Katina talks about homeschooling her special needs students while being a single mom, and how SCAIHS has aided in her homeschool journey.  

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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Moryah graduated the oldest of her two through SCAIHS and continues to homeschool the younger.  She talks about loving to learn, using the public school, transitioning to homeschool, encouraging self-directed learning, critical thinking, and independent thinking.   

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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 Kimberly graduated her four children through SCAIHS.  She talks about her experience switching from public school to homeschool, how homeschool strengthened their family relationship, field trips, and promoting the love of learning in their children. 

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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Brantlee, a homeschool mom who has graduated both her children.  She talks about homeschooling, setting up her students as independent learners, her experience with the differences between brick-and-mortar public school, virtual charter school, and homeschooling, discovering how her students learn and challenging her students to reach their potential.  

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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Meg is a homeschool mom who started homeschooling “just for preschool” and recently graduated her oldest from homeschooling and is graduating her younger this year.  Meg talks about making the choice every year to continue to homeschool, making the most of their time together as a family and how homeschooling has brought them closer together as a family.

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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Tori is a homeschool mom who has graduated both her children. Tori talks about
her experience being a classroom educator and transitioning to homeschool. She talks about
the endurance that homeschooling has cultivated in her family, and the need for prayer above all
else as they face various challenges.

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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Paola is a homeschool mom of four who’s graduated her elder two and is homeschooling the younger two.  Paola discusses being a reluctant homeschooler, transitioning from corporate America into being a stay-at-home mom, transitioning from public school to homeschooling.  The freedom that homeschooling brings, and building a homeschool network.

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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Zan Tyler, founder of SCAIHS, shares the story of the founding of SCAIHS. Discussing various
legal battles, lobbying efforts, and the struggles of being allowed to homeschool in South
Carolina in the 1980s and 1990s.

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

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Lisa is a homeschool mom of three, having graduated one and currently homeschooling the others.  She talks about the transition of her oldest to college from homeschooling, their experience with private school and how it compares to homeschooling, her experience using Classical Conversations, setting goals for homeschooling, what it’s like having a SCAIHS counselor, encouraging her students in their passions, flexibility, and building relationships with her kids.

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

Podcast Production: Bob Slone Audio Productions
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Elise Edson is a homeschool mom who homeschooled all four of her daughters, and helped homeschool some of her granddaughters.  She talks about being a rebel in her desire to not send her children off to school, being a one-income family, homeschooling two of her daughters through high school, homeschooling in Iowa, connecting with Zan Tyler in South Carolina, homeschooling while working, having a good support system, learning World War II history from her father a WWII veteran, a daily homeschool routine, teaching writing composition despite it being a weak subject for herself, teaching a struggling reader who went on to be the first in her class in college, working with the bent of the student, developing Godly character in her kids, and teaching them how to learn and think critically, the accountability of SCAIHS being helpful, socializing with family, starting a field trip group, the importance of activities outside the academics, dealing with issues in the teen years, being humbled and asking forgiveness from her daughters,making homeschool an enjoyable experience, studying each individual and not frustrating them, and discovering each child’s learning style.  

Questions or remarks can be sent to schomeschooling.com or [email protected]. 

Podcast Production: Bob Slone Audio Productions
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