On Martin Luther King Day in 2016, Tralandra Stewart asked her three children a simple question. She wanted to know what they had learned in elementary school in Cypress, Texas, about the civil rights pioneer.
They said, I dont know. I think he was a man who made a speech, she recalled them saying. They couldnt give me any information.
At that point, Stewart, a public school secretary, had already noticed gaps in her childrens education. The idea of home-schooling them despite not even knowing where to start was something the family had been considering. But that moment crystalized their decision.
