Your library card might be one of the most useful tools in your homeschool and you may be using only a fraction of what it offers.

In this episode, Ashley talks about using libraries for books, audiobooks, documentaries, research, programming, homeschool meetups, study spaces, and more. She also shares why she has seven library cards and how homeschoolers can look beyond their local library for digital resources.

We talk about:

• Libby, Hoopla & Kanopy

• Audiobooks and digital collections

• Library research databases

• documentaries to ask better questions

• Library programs, study spaces & community resources

• Digital library cards beyond your local system

• Building unit studies from library resources

• Finding perspectives missing from traditional narratives

• Using public resources instead of buying everything

• Keeping homeschooling connected to the larger community

Get your library card, explore your library's digital resources, and ask your librarian:

"What does your library offer that most people don't know about?"

Then see what you find.

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When educational systems fail Black children, who absorbs the cost? Ashley connects her daughter’s unmet service needs and her family’s financial and relational sacrifices to her mother-in-law’s experience desegregating San Antonio schools. This episode explores homeschooling as protection, the unequal access to educational alternatives, and why individual escape is not the same as collective liberation.

Read the New York Times Magazine article that inspired this episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html

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In this episode of Secular Homeschool Revolution, Ashley answers the questions you dm'd her about building a secular, diverse, and inclusive homeschool co-op. We're talking parent-led classes, leadership, nonprofit status, community responsibility, and why creating an accountable space matters more than simply calling it a safe space.

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