Graysville
My name is Deb Spradlin, and I am the administrator of Everest Academy.
About our family: I have been married to David, my high school sweetie, for 22 years. I have an 20-year-old and a 14-year-old. We love anything to do with water and are also a martial arts family, with 3 of the 4 members being black belts in one or more of the following arts: Yoshukai, Taekwondo, and Taijutsu. We grow a huge garden in the summer including veggies, herbs, and some fruits. In the past, we have frozen all of our harvest, but a few years ago we decided to try our hand at canning and loved it so much that we will continue to do both freezing and canning. We are very interested in eating clean and learning more everyday about buying organic and/or local.
About our homeschooling: My family has been homeschooling for 11 years, 20 if you count from the time my oldest was born. My oldest is ADHD and initially went to public school, tops on my "regrets list", and graduated in 2011 as the Everest Academy Valedictorian (making a 27 on his ACT - planning to test twice more in hopes of an even better grade) and has been awarded a very nice scholarship to UAB (yeh Dalton!) He is now attending UAB on scholarship, in the UAB Honors Program, and a member of the UAB Student Government. We are an unschooling family, but my youngest child is currently doing a structured math curriculum at her request. She is a very much a hands-on learner, and we utilize lots of resources to learn including Netflix, workshops, field trips, games, internet links, experiments, mentoring opportunities, camps, traveling, co-ops, gardening, composting, martial arts, camping, library, lapbooking, timelines, etc... We are very hands on and love to get messy with learning!
Deb's contact information:
- Email: everestacademy1@gmail.com
- Office phone: 205-433-9828
