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Showing posts with label homeschooling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homeschooling. Show all posts
Monday, April 12, 2010
Homeschooling and High School
Parents thinking about homeschooling in the early years and then sending them off to the local high school for their last four years may want to rethink that strategy.Drew Gamblin, a 16 year old gifted student, desires to go to the local public high school after being homeschooled. He hopes to experience "the memories" and graduate with his peers. Gamblin is being held back, however, because
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Advice for Aspiring Homeschooler
Crunchy Con author and BeliefNet blogger, Rod Dreher, had a reader write to him seeking advice regarding homeschooling. A reader writes to say that his five year old came home from public school kindergarten with a flyer alerting parents that the kids are about to have a whole week of "Just Say No to Drugs" education. It shocked him that kids as young as this are being subjected to this sort of
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Student Education-Hardball on Homeschooling
Last night, MSNBC's Chris Mathew's announced his litmus test for Republican candidates and wrongly stereotyped homeschoolers in the process. In a post election round-up he posed this question to Club for Growth President, Chris Chocola, after Chocola talked about the limited role of government: MATTHEWS: Last question—here‘s my litmus test—are you pushing home schooling? CHOCOLA: We don‘
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Student Education-The real epidemic in our schools
Obama declared H1N1 a national emergency but there's another virus that is threatening our children's minds that could prove more widespread than once believed. Big Hollywood has posted 11 more videos of children in various schools around the country singing praises to Obama and quoting his speeches. This is about brainwashing our children into Leftist identity politics. Sure, the schools
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Mensa Studies Homeschoolers
The Mensa Foundation conducted a study of first-year college performance of homeschool graduates. The purpose, "was to determine differences in first-year college academic performance between home school and traditional high school graduates, measured by grade point average, retention, ACT test scores, and credits.The conclusion, "Families who home school their children should not feel that the
Monday, March 8, 2010
Reaching Homeschoolers
At a homeschool convention last year, another vendor and I struck up a conversation. He had a lot of energy but seemed a bit uptight; however, he readily admitted that he felt totally out of place because he didn't homeschool and this was definitely not his "typical convention." Not really interested in finding out what his "typical convention" was like, I smiled and assured him that we
Sunday, March 7, 2010
NEA Puts Power Ahead of Kids
It's really no surprise to anyone ever that the NEA was more interested in protecting its power than educating children. What is surprising is that they actually feel confident enough in their power to admit it. Here's the NEA's General Counsel admitting as much in his retirement speech this past summer. "Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative
Friday, March 5, 2010
Mom's On the Computer (or not)
Some readers are wondering if I've once again fallen off the face of the internet. Not really, I'm a bit more active on Facebook, but even that is sporadic. Perhaps the best way to explain my is to post a song I recently rewrote (with apologies to Harry Chapin) as an intro to my upcoming workshop, iHelp for the eHome - learning to stay focused and use electronics and the Internet responsibly
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Senseless Deception
What are we, as Christian parents, to think and more importantly do when Godly discipline turns deadly and a little child is senselessly killed at the hand of his parents desperately hoping only to "train up a child in the way he should go"?Nearly four years ago, I wrote about out the death of Sean Paddock at the hand of his mother, Lynn Paddock. Paddock was eventually convicted of her son's
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Quote of the Day
Shamelessly swiped from the Facebook status of my dear sister Donna, a homeschool mom of eight children 17 and under: It only takes......One Macy's catalog to convince me I'm not beautiful enough...One Timberdoodle catalog to convince me that I'm not homeschooling enough...One Vision Forum catalog to convince me I don't have character enough...Yet just One Word from God shows me that I am loved
Goals 2000 is alive in 2010
In the mid-1990's, my state legislator knocked on my door campaigning for reelection in our district. After a brief chit-chat session where he talked about roads, drains, and everything else he thought I cared about, I asked him, "Are you aware of the pending education reform in our state and many others which is modeled after Europe and will forever change the US economy?""No, I'm not." He
Monday, March 1, 2010
Muslims Turn to Homeschooling
Because of our family's proximity to Dearborn, Michigan one of the largest Arab populations outside of the Middle East and my daughter's study of the Arabic language and culture, I did not find it surprising that Muslims are turning to homeschooling.Muslim parents consider homeschooling for many of the same reasons other parents do - strong academics built on a foundation of religious
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