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In A Kite in a Hurricane No More, you will read three different stories that intertwine to form a larger narrative than typically found in an autobiography.

The first shares the challenges and ultimate triumph of Mia Giordano, a young woman with serious learning disabilities that conventional schools could not help. Her parents'' ability to choose a nonconventional education option resulted in a life-changing metamorphosis.

The second is a scientific journey into the mysteries of the brain. Advanced research shows that the brain is changeable and ever changing. Yet traditional schools fail to incorporate research to adapt and help students with learning disabilities. But there are proven programs that incorporate the latest research and Mia benefitted from one such program.  

The last is about public policy and why parents need to have educational choice options that meet the needs of their children. School choice has been a key to Mia''s life success. Equity demands that the options available to her should be available to millions of other kids who would benefit from greater school choice.

These intertwined stories converge to tell a larger and greater story of what the future of education in America could and should be.

Homeschooling is probably the most misunderstood school choice option. Many believe that homeschooling isolates students, is practiced by a narrow demographic, and shoulders parents with the entire responsibility for teaching their kids. The reality is that homeschooling is an incredibly diverse movement and offers a myriad of socialization opportunities for students plus a wealth of resources for homeschool parents.

Thanks to the massive educational disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, homeschooling has transformed from a tiny curious sideshow to a mainstream part of the education landscape. Increasing numbers of parents have found that homeschooling offers them and their children the choices, flexibility, and personalization that cannot be found in one-size-fits-all conventional schools.

The Homeschool Boom highlights the wide variety of people who have decided to homeschool. They have taken the opportunities offered by technology, varied learning models, new and abundant curricular choices, and the freedom to individualize learning to educate their kids successfully outside the traditional classroom.

The parents, children, and educators you''ll meet reading The Homeschool Boom epitomize this new wave of homeschoolers who were dissatisfied with current direction of their children''s education but made a once-unthinkable choice - the choice to educate their kids at home.

The instruction of critical race theory in America''s schools, popularized through controversial curriculum such as the 1619 Project, has disrupted classrooms from coast to coast and impacted families from every ethnic, cultural, and income background. 

The Great Parent Revolt profiles ordinary people who have taken on the extraordinary task of defeating the most divisive doctrine to ever threaten America''s children. These are parents, grandparents, educators, students and community leaders who have been affected, directly or indirectly, by the sweeping forces of thought conformity and political indoctrination in public schools. 

These grassroots agents of change come from vastly different backgrounds. They are immigrants and native-born Americans. Their political views span the ideological spectrum. But through their activism and advocacy, they are standing up for fundamental values of equality, liberty, and freedom, and for the shared future of our next generation. 

Most had never engaged in activism before. But meeting in living rooms and coffee shops, they launched effective grassroots movements that have successfully stopped the growth of these destructive policies in their communities, and protected students from being ostracized and bullied at school. 

Through their courageous stories, The Great Parent Revolt aims to inspire other frustrated parents and community members across the country that they, too, can fight back against the education bureaucracy - and gives them the tools to stop classroom indoctrination.