She explains how she and her husband developed a curriculum, provided adequate exposure to the arts as well as quiet time for reflection and meditation, initiated quality opportunities for volunteerism, and sought out athletic activities for their sons.
In Morning by Morning, Paula Penn-Nabrit discusses her family’s emotional transition to home schooling and shares the nuts and bolts of the boys’ educational experience. So in 1991-when Evan was nine and twins Charles and Damon were eleven-the children were withdrawn from the exclusive country day school they’d been attending. Madison felt that they knew what was best for their sons. Madison were turning their backs on a rich educational legacy.īut ultimately, Paula and C. Supreme Court to other members of their family, it seemed as if Paula and C. Madison’s uncle was the famed civil rights attorney James Nabrit, who, with Thurgood Marshall, had argued Brown v. This decision was especially poignant for the Nabrit family because C. Madison, decided to home-school their children after racial incidents at public and private schools led them to the conclusion that the traditional educational system would be damaging to their sons’ self-esteem. But in this inspirational and practical memoir, Paula Penn-Nabrit shares her intimate experiences of home-schooling her three sons, Charles, Damon, and Evan. Home schooling has long been regarded as a last resort, particularly by African-American families.
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