Rethinking Education with Ex-Assistant Principal Ally

Rethinking Education with Ex-Assistant Principal Ally

From The Midwitch by Anita Katherine

May 26, 2026 · 54 min

About this episode

Ally shares her personal journey of leaving the education system and the implications for parents considering alternative education paths for their children.

After more than a decade working inside the education system, Ally shares the deeply personal journey that led her to walk away from not only her career, but her prior beliefs, identity and the structure she had always known. Ally touches on regulation techniques for children in school and for parents homeschooling, partial enrolments and half days, the realities of 'learning support' dynamics and funding within the system and the moment she spoke aloud the decision that her own daughter was not going to enter the school system - when she was still in an active teaching role. What unfolds throughout this conversation is the realisation that Ally’s own decision to leave the schooling system mirrors the exact threshold many parents are now finding themselves at with their children. The same fears arising around choosing differently. "What if I leave the safety of what everyone else is doing? What if I trust my own knowing over the system?" This conversation explore how questioning mainstream education often becomes a much bigger initiation into sovereignty, nervous system healing, self trust and redefining what security truly means for a family. Ally shares what she witnessed…

People in this episode

Host: Anita Katherine

Guest: Ally

Topics covered

  • education
  • homeschooling
  • parenting
  • school system
  • self trust
  • sovereignty

Keywords

  • education system
  • homeschooling
  • learning support
  • child development
  • parenting choices
  • school dynamics
  • self trust
  • nervous system healing

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