Word: micki
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grant Colfax got into Harvard after having been taught by his parents his entire life. Grant graduated magna cum laude, became a Fulbright scholar and graduated from Harvard Medical School. One by one, his home- schooled brothers followed suit. "Our kids were more or less the guinea pigs," says Micki Colfax, who along with husband David home schooled all four Colfax children from their home in Boonville, California (pop. 750). "Their going to Harvard validated what home schooling was all about...
...Colfaxes make compelling spokespeople for the movement they did so much to legitimize. "We feel every parent is qualified to teach," Micki says. "If it doesn't work, fine, go on to something else. Even within one family, the learning skills might be different, so one ((child)) might work at home, the other might work at school. But I think the more the government gets involved, the less freedom parents have...