Eve Ettinger

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Eve Ettinger

Share In Virginia, this kind of educational neglect is legal, and is often the reality for homeschooled children if their parents choose to enroll them as religiously exempt from compulsory attendance to school, like mine did. This means that, currently, if homeschooling parents declare that they have a religious objection to their child participating in the education system as we know it, they are legally permitted to refuse their child an education. State Sen.

2 months ago | richmond.com | Eve Ettinger

The year my mom had my twin brothers, I turned 13 and I didn’t finish any of my assigned schoolwork. Instead, I read novels. Hundreds of novels. I changed diapers, I cooked dinner, I cleaned the house, I watched my siblings, and I fell behind in school by a full year in every subject. That lost year was not an isolated incident. As the eldest daughter of a religious, conservative family with eight younger siblings, I was encouraged to focus my attention on preparing to be a wife and mother.

Dec 15, 2024 | southernliving.com | Eve Ettinger

The drive to Middleburg, Virginia, from Washington, D.C., takes a little over an hour, but it feels like entering an entirely different world. As you travel away from the sprawl of the city and toward the mountains, the route eventually veers off the highway and onto a two-lane road, which passes bucolic fields, rambling stone walls, and grazing cows. This small retreat town on the edge of the Virginia Piedmont has long served as a detox from being in the thick of things.

Jul 10, 2023 | msn.com | Eve Ettinger

Jul 10, 2023 | bustle.com | Eve Ettinger