MENA FN – Staff Writer 
As her eldest son conjugates French verbs with a tutor, Emily Bradley coaches her three-year-old in speech, while her daughter tackles math drills in the kitchen using colored rods that represent numbers. None of Bradley’s four children — the eldest of whom is nine — have ever attended school. She plans to keep it that way as she seeks both to personalize their education and lay a Christian foundation for them. The Bradleys are among the roughly 1.8 million US students who are homeschooled — a fast-growing community whose approach may find a champion under Donald Trump’s controversial new education secretary, Betsy DeVos. Their 36-year-old mother is no fan of the incoming president, but she is all “in favor of alternatives to education” — which DeVos strongly supports.(more)