Educating: A Memoir

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Examining current concerns facing practice-based film education in the digital era, this book is indispensable for both film teachers and students alike. The educational changes being implemented as a result of COVID-19 are changing perspectives about education. A postal worker who received his high school diploma when he was 90 years old, Richard Hunt inspired LaRee with tales of Roman history as he peeled apples with his daughter. It also sounds as if she sometimes assumes the world is not on her side, and I don't know whether that is a message she intended to convey. But I know that one person can feel abused and traumatized by an event or situation that might seem trivial or funny to another.

Westover reaches out to her in hopes she will help corroborate Westover's timeline of Shawn's abuse.Nowadays there are also fewer hostile Facebook messages about the company and confrontations at trade shows. Don't bother giving this woman the attention and sales numbers to make her feel like she has won, because that is the only reason this book exists. Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of film education in Britain, Europe and the United States.

Jensen is friends with Tara’s brother, Shawn, the alleged perpetrator of the most terrifying violence in “Educated.

She also knows what it’s like to be homeless and to be in jail, to come from a dysfunctional family (some members of her family are also recovering addicts). The nicest man ever,” says Jenn Cox, who has worked for their business, Butterfly Express, for some eight years. I felt like this book provided some of that perspective, and it was important to read for that reason. The Westovers had heard talk, enough to dread what was written about them — horrific stories of abuse, sibling-on-sibling violence, primitive homeopathic remedies for life-threatening accidents, scathing harangues from an end-of-days father, a doormat mother who failed to protect her young. A table in the living room is scattered with religious books — a Bible and deep-dive commentaries on the Old Testament, because Val and LaRee co-teach an adult Sunday School class.

In Tara’s memoir it appeared to be an VERY arduous and much more painful battle in the absence of chemicals. I would feel sorry for this illiterate white supremacist if there were any small positive redeeming quality about her. Was the Westover home a nurturing environment where seven children thrived intellectually, or was it a house of horrors? She claims her mother saw it and her sister experienced abuse as well, though this sister later retracts her story.

As a mother, I would also feel protective of a child, like Travis, who made many mistakes in his youth. Almost all of the book, where it is possible to discern a theme in the rambling and non-linear structure, is about the wonderful, perfect family the Westovers were/are, how they have discovered miraculous topical cures for internal injuries and broken bones, how they did an *incredible* job educating their children because they are so educated and curious themselves.