SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Since the pandemic lockdowns, many parents have been more involved in their children’s education. Some say they don’t like what they’re seeing and turned to other sources of education, like homeschooling.
One homeschool program is American Education Defenders, a non-profit that aims to boost self-esteem by using a more creative and appealing approach to teach American history.
Paul Lloyd Hemphill is an author, public speaker, and veteran. He started American Education Defenders in 2020 “as a direct response to the negative classroom influences on the self-esteem of our nation’s children.”
“What I do is that I tell stories,” Hemphill told NTD Television. “Inside the word ‘history’ is the word ‘story.’ And stories are made up of people who make good and bad decisions. So the way we want to help our kids grow up and become better individuals and better citizens is to show them how people made bad decisions and good decisions from our country’s past.”…