Zan Tyler | Ep. 152

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About this Episode

What happens when students educated through relationship, relevance, and rigor step into the real world? In this special commencement address to 170+ SCAIHS graduates and hundreds of their families and friends, Zan celebrates the remarkable outcomes of homeschooled students—from leading military explosive ordnance classes to earning top college scholarships to taking campus leadership roles. She honors the sacrificial investment of homeschool parents and traces how decades of fighting for educational freedom have yielded a generation ready to engage culture with faith and purpose. Be inspired by the extraordinary fruit of families who dared to educate differently.

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Meet My Guest

Zan Tyler’s homeschool journey began in 1984 when homeschooling was illegal and she was threatened with jail. For eight years, she and other families battled for homeschool freedom and established landmark homeschool legislation in South Carolina. In 1990, she founded the South Carolina Association of Independent Home Schools (SCAIHS) and served as its president for ten years. Zan loves to empower parents as they answer their God-given calling to homeschool. She is an inspirational speaker and author. For sixteen years, Zan worked with Christian publishers developing homeschool curriculum and resources. She is now a consultant with BJU Press Homeschool. Zan’s greatest privilege in life was homeschooling their three children through high school. Zan is the host of the Zan Tyler Podcast, sponsored by BJU Press Homeschool. Join Zan and a special guest each week for real encouragement, engaging stories, and practical wisdom for surviving and thriving on the homeschool journey.

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Mentioned in this Episode

• SCAIHS (South Carolina Association of Independent Home Schools)
• HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association)
• Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) Supreme Court Case
• Harvard Rules and Precepts (1646)

Podcast Sponsor

At BJU Press Homeschool, we’re committed to providing children an education from a biblical worldview that is academically sound and challenges them to advance, think critically, and live like Christ. This type of education is not often possible in public schools because of the number of children taught in a classroom, a difference in worldview, and peer and societal pressure to conform. Homeschooling allows parents to instruct and disciple their children without daily fighting messages from an opposing worldview taught in the classroom. And with tuition costs and fees for private schooling or tutoring, homeschooling may be the only option for parents who are concerned for their children’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
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