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Alex, #55

Perhaps, what is missing from your home schooling example is the opportunity for the wife to learn how to make decisions. It sounds like the husband had a good handle on things, but either he didn’t share his reasons with his wife, or she simply wasn’t seeing the reasoning. There were other options. An option that would have allowed the wife to better reason things out would have been to agree for her to try out homeschooling on one of the children, perhaps the youngest. There are families that work together in their home schooling, that could have been an option. She could have taken training. They could have gotten some counseling in how to make decisions together. The only thing learned there was that the husband was right in that instance.

The scenario could have been the opposite with the husband wanting her to homeschool and she not wanting to, and her decision was right. How would that have been handled? I’ve seen it handled where the wife was forced to homeschool. This is what can happen when one person has control over another person.