Christina Shenvi (@clshenvi) is an Emergency Physician and Assistant Residency Director at the University of North Carolina. She is fellowship trained in Geriatric EM and blogs on geriatric EM topics for ALiEM (www.ALiEM.com), produces the GEMCAST podcast (www.gempodcast.com), and writes the Rx Pad column for EP Monthly. Neil Shenvi (www.shenvi.org) is a theoretical-chemist-turned-SAHD who homeschools their 4 kids. He is also a tutor in our local Classical Conversations homeschool co-op.

Homeschooler, MD
Homeschoolers are often portrayed as awkward social outcasts, products of a homeschooling community that is bizarre if not positively cultish (see: the opening scene from Mean Girls). So why do the parents of over two million children in the United…