SS #131: Outsourcing for High School (with Jami Marstall!!)
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Our very special guest today is Jami Marstall. Jami has been homeschooling with Charlotte Mason's principles, primarily following AmblesideOnline, for the past 17 years. She has graduated three of her four children from the family homeschool and has one high schooler left. Jami loves to read about and discuss educational history and philosophy. She always dreamed of being a professional student and homeschooling continues to be the perfect career to fulfill that ambition.
Today's episode is a conversation Abby and Brandy absolutely loved having with Jami. It is so common to put homeschoolers into public school for high school because mothers feel unequipped for such a big undertaking. They discussed an alternative that all three of them have used that has helped them homeschool for the long haul: outsourcing. You're going to love this conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | I don't find just getting credits out of the way before the end of high school a really motivating |
| 0:06.7 | reason to outsource. It makes sense to me somewhat. It just depends on what's being sacrificed. |
| 0:13.0 | And sometimes I feel like the quality of, like what I'm doing with Amble Side Online, |
| 0:17.2 | year 11 does not compare to what I've seen in for the community college humanities. |
| 0:21.8 | Right. |
| 0:22.0 | That's just the reality. |
| 0:23.2 | Agreed. |
| 0:23.5 | And so just to get credits checked off for that, it's not a compelling reason to outsource for me. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome to Scalae Sisters, where we are cultivating the maximum number of thinking moms we can. |
| 0:44.0 | This is the podcast for classical homeschooling mamas who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done. |
| 0:51.5 | Scalae Sisters discusses topics that matter to those of us who believe that educating |
| 0:55.9 | ourselves through reading widely, thinking deeply, and applying faithfully, equips us for |
| 1:01.8 | the task of educating our children. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. |
| 1:07.0 | To get my free, almost weekly, mostly Charlotte Mason newsletter, go to afterthoughtsblog.net |
| 1:13.7 | slash subscribe and sign up. |
| 1:17.1 | My co-host today is Abby Wall. |
| 1:20.3 | Abby is basically the queen of the Scholeystership. |
| 1:23.8 | Abby is a country-living, farmer, rancher, a loving wife and mom of five who homeschools and reads whenever she can. |
| 1:32.2 | Our special guest today is Jamie Marstall. |
| 1:35.8 | Jamie has been homeschooling with Charlotte Mason's principals, primarily following Ambleside Online, for the past 17 years. |
| 1:43.1 | She has graduated three of her four children from the |
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