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Welcome back to the Brave Rider podcast.

I'm Julie Bogart.

I'm the founder of Brave Rider, mother of five adult kids who were homeschooled, and today a grandmother to four with a fifth on the way. Melissa Wiley, my co-host is off today, so it's just you and me. I thought we would use today's episode to talk about the history of homeschooling,

a little bit about how we got to where we are today and maybe even the role of Brave Rider in that journey. So buckle up Buttercup. This is going to be an interesting ride. Let's get

started.

So before we get into homeschooling, let me give you a quick biographical background of me.

I was born in the 1960s and went to school in the 70s especially. During that time, I lived in California, and my junior high was actually located in Malibu Canyon. Teachers were newly liberated to try all kinds of new methods of

teaching. In fact, one of those methods was called new math, and we started with Venn diagrams,

and that became quite a controversial approach

in later years. But here's what I remember from the 1970s. My teachers were often brand new

to the teaching experience. They did not have the burden of preparing us for standardized

state testing, and so they experimented. I had a science

teacher who took our entire class to a creek every day for weeks, where we used field guides to

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