Jenelle Evans announced that she has decided to homeschool her two youngest children for the remainder of the school year.
“Life update, basically I have taken my kids out of school for the rest of the school year and will be homeschooling them,” the said Teen Mom 2 alum, 32, said in a video shared via Instagram on Wednesday, April 24. “Why? Because I found out her school isn’t safe. I won’t go into that.”
Evans will homeschool her 9-year-old son, Kaiser, whom she shares with her ex Nathan Griffithand daughter Ensley, 6, whom she shares with her estranged husband David Eason. She is also the mother of son Jace, 14, who is not homeschooled along with his younger siblings.
The former MTV personality shared that she takes her little ones on educational trips every day, including to the aquarium and local museums. Their plan is to take them to educational institutions until they officially go on summer vacation in the next “30 days.”
“I just want to protect her. I want to keep her at home. I want to keep an eye on her,” she said in the clip. “I think this is the best thing for her right now. Life has been way too stressful for us and I feel like they need a break so we are homeschooling. It will be fun.”
Evans then shared that she and the children would go to the Children’s Museum, where they would learn about “scientific” topics, including “waterfalls, gravity, tornadoes, weather” and more. Evans showed clips of her children in the museum interacting with the various exhibits.
Jenelle Evans and her husband David Eason have been through ups and downs over the years. The Teen Mom 2 alum began dating Eason in 2015. Shortly after their wedding in September 2017, the couple welcomed daughter Ensley in January 2018. (Evans is also the mother of son Jace, whom she shares with ex Andrew Lewis, and son Kaiser, whom […]
“This day was quite successful, education can be fun for you,” she said. “So yeah, try it, you might like it.”
Following her post, Evans received a variety of criticism and support from her followers. One user asked if Evans had even completed a year of college and was qualified to homeschool her little ones. The TV personality responded to the criticism with her Instagram Story, where she shared her 2015 graduation photos from her medical assistant school.
“Ummm…what did you say again?” Evans joked.
Courtesy of Jenelle Evans/Instagram Jenelle Evans’ rocky relationship with her son Jace was often the focus of her storyline on Teen Mom 2. Jenelle was 17 when she gave birth to her eldest son in August 2009, which was captured on camera in her 2010 episode of 16 and Pregnant. (Jace’s father […]
Evans has had some ups and downs this year. In February, Evans announced that charges against her and 35-year-old Eason over Jace were dropped. (In October 2023, Jace ran away from home and claimed that Eason had attacked him. Eason denied the allegations.)
In March, Evans filed for separation from Eason after six years of marriage. She later explained why she chose to separate from Eason instead of getting a divorce.
“I would have gotten a divorce right away, but I couldn’t because in the state of North Carolina you have to be legally separated for a year and prove you have two different addresses,” she said in a TikTok in March. “The problem is that none of us wanted to go. That’s why whenever I had the opportunity to file a motion for separation, I filed a motion called a bed and board separation.”