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...Andre, there are stories aplenty about Marion the post-toddler prodigy. A feisty little girl, she could outrace any boy in the L.A. burbs. She was special and knew it. At age 5 in 1981, she watched Diana marry Charles on TV and asked about the red carpet. Her mom told her the carpet was rolled out for important people. "Well, when I go places," Marion said, "why don't they roll...
Jones did not live a red-carpet childhood. She does not speak to her father, and her relationship with her mother, also named Marion, is delicate. As she describes it, "What happened there was I got injured, and without sports I got depressed. I moved away from my mom emotionally, and in college I drifted further. We still don't have the typical mother-daughter relationship where she's baking me cookies, but we're comfortable. I love her, and she loves me, and we're fine...
...most will never have SAT through a lecture. When it welcomes its inaugural class of 80 students in October, Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., will be the first college designed specifically for kids who have been schooled at home. "When I was a little kid, and my mom told people I was homeschooled, we'd get this blank look," says Janice Phillips, who will enter Patrick Henry as a sophomore. "Now everyone knows someone who's homeschooled. We have, quote unquote, arrived...
...college-admissions environment for homeschoolers wasn't always so welcoming. As recently as five years ago, most schools were understandably stumped by applications with teacher recommendations written by Mom and Dad, lengthy high school transcripts that listed textbooks instead of courses, and grades that rarely dropped below A's. "When homeschoolers were applying to college in the early '90s, the schools didn't know what to make of them," says Cafi Cohen, 50, who taught her two children at home and wrote Homeschooling: The Teen Years. "Now most colleges have a policy for dealing with them, and some schools...
...year again: Time to pack away swimsuits, hang up sun hats and haul out the 940-page fall fashion issue of Vogue. Labor Day has come and gone, which means that summer is over, fall is imminent, and - let's try keeping that cheering to a reasonable decibel level, Mom and Dad - school is back in session...