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Why we chose to teach our children at home

During a difficult financial period for their family, Wambui Muthami and her husband made a decision not very common at the time. Wambui had been fired from her job, and her husband, a businessman, was going through an entrepreneurial recession. For three years, the couple pulled their children out of school and Wambui taught them at home. Their son Alvin was 15, and their daughter Ashley 8.

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