Parents’ Decision
The couple approached the school and asked that all seven be placed in “separate classes. Furthermore, they switched to a thoroughgoing educational policy that allowed each child to freely choose what he or she wanted to do, rather than having the parents decide everything from what clothes to wear to what after-school activities to attend. We continued to confront each child and tell them, “You are one special person. This was a big gamble on my part as a parent to liberate them from the confines of the “septuplets. Would this strategy work?
