The best -selling author who will appear at Eberglow – Lagrange Daily News

The journey of a mother so as not to leave her children’s education has become a schooling move.

Saturday, Eberglow in Lagrange will host Dr. Annise Mabry, the award -winning author of The Bestselling Book, Educational disobedience: a mother who became a movement.

Dr. Mabry’s book published in 2018 tells her story The journey of how she had her children in the house, because the schools in her area could not offer the necessary resources to educate the two children with special needs. Her eldest child suffers from mental illness, and her youngest child is autistic.

“The oldest mental illness developed from being so seriously intimidated in school that it created a psychotic break. When I tried to get the district to allow my child to use the house services at the hospital, it was told that the hospital services are only available for medical children. The fact that my child was intimidated and had a psychotic break and tried to commit suicide 13 times in 12 months, did not qualify my child because he received home services, ”Mabry said.

Mabry said they tried to work through it, but every time her child returns to school, he became a trigger and that he has to return to a mental health hospital.

Because of this, the youngest was missing for a long time from school. An education coordinator at the hospital later told him, as long as they had a doctor’s note, he didn’t have to worry. But she worried.

“I have a doctorate in education and I look at the time when my child is missing from school and I know there is a direct correlation between presence and performance. So, whether or not the absences will be apologized, my child was missing time for valuable training, ”said Mabry.

Mabry said she was her child who initially suggested home school.

“Homemade schools are difficult. I had all these reasons in my head why I couldn’t do it. I will always remember that I was going on the road, and my child was in the back seat of the car. They looked at me and said, you have two doctors and five master diplomas. Why does it scare you? And I said, “Do you know what? Are you right? So I said to my child: “If we are on a submerged ship, then I will be the captain and descend together.” That’s how it all started, “said Mabry.

She said that her youngest child came then and was diagnosed as autistic with written expression disorder. At that time, none of the schools in Georgia served children with written language disorder. Some served autism, but in rural Georgia in 2012, none of them served students with the diagnosis of her child’s child, she said,

The teachers told her that it should be okay with her child only to read and understand about 50 words.

“I said,” No, ma’am, not today, not tomorrow or the next day, “Mabry said. “What was really the straw that broke the back of my camel with my youngest son in the public school was every other year in which I played Russian roulette with teachers. In a year we will receive an incredible teacher who liked to teach, and she was phenomenal … Then we will receive a horrible teacher, who was only there to collect the salary. “

Mabry ended with both children’s schooling, but had to build a program for two children who were at a very different academic level. She said that her oldest is academic, but the youngest endeavored to read. He began to investigate different suppliers from the curriculum and found one he loved, but when he called the supplier to buy the program, they told him that he sells it only to non -profit organizations and school districts.

“I did what any reasonable and normal parent would do. I raised the phone, I called the lawyer and I said: “I need you to build a non -profit organization, so I can buy the curriculum for my child’s home school,” Mabry said.

Mabry said he soon learned why I only sell the curriculum of the schools and non -profits. They only sell the program in blocks of 25. Fortunately, now, when he had a non -profit, he could take advantage of the additional curriculum licenses and started offering other parents who school their children.

Mabry has created the Free Academy Tiers Academy School School Cooperative after researching the school laws at home and learned that others could help parents make their schools.

In Georgia, if a parent has a high school diploma, they can school their child and enroll their diploma at any age. If the parent does not have a high school diploma, they can hire a tutor or partner with a domestic school cooperative, such as the one created by Mabry, to school their child and then enroll in the diploma.

Now, Mabry helps countless school parents and graduates their children.

“When I started making graduation ceremonies, I made them in the living room on a complete doctoral coat and everything with students who went to the living room and dress. Now, when we do graduation ceremonies, we do them everywhere in Georgia and we pack auditors, ”said Mabry.

And it all came from the desire of a single mother to let her child education slip.

Dr. Annise Mabry brings a highly expected book tour, The Sweet Taste of Change: A Life of Educational Neaslowence to Emberglow, located at 2 E Lafayette Square, Saturday, March 1, 14 – 16:00