HEM September-October 2005 – Selected Content
In the second part of an interview with Deborah Stevenson of the National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD) about the threats facing homeschooling parents, Judy Aron asks, “Why do state Departments of Education and government want to encroach on homeschooling issues?”
Deborah Stevenson starts her long reply with this: “Follow the [...]
Selections from Escape from Childhood
Young people should have the right to control and direct their own learning, that is, to decide what they want to learn, and when, where, how, how much, how fast, and with what help they want to learn it. To be still more specific, I want them to have the right [...]
Continued from July 15:
We have a big red spiral-bound notebook, one of those 200 page, college ruled notebooks divided into five subject areas. Written across the cover in black marker are these words: Home Education Magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1 (putting it together). This notebook was literally the blueprint for the first issue of the [...]
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Continued from July 15:
For the first few months we mostly played games with our new computer. It came with classic standards like Ladder, Aliens, and a version of Pac-Man, and the whole family enjoyed these newfangled electronic diversions. I did some bookkeeping and letter writing on it, and the boys explored the drawing program. Then [...]
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Continued from July 13:
By the time school opened John and Jim had made friends with the neighbor children, several of whom were about their own age. The boys decided that since everyone else from our little valley was going off to school in town, they’d like to try it too. So one brisk fall morning [...]
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