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 [...]
Homeschool Freedom
“…Let it be very clear, I do NOT object to parents using a publicly funded e-school. I do however find it cruel to quietly let them think they are enjoying the rights and responsibilities that home education has to offer when they are actually enrolled in a public school, an entity with very different [...]
Natalie Criss: Ramblings, Rants & Remedies: Cross-pollination or cross-pollution?
Natalie – never one to mince words – has an interesting essay about a couple of homeschool players’ groups which seem bent on controlling the larger discourse. This directly relates to my earlier blog entry about Annette Jurczak’s project titled Clarity. Natalie writes:
These two groups seem to [...]
An Open Letter To Rob Reiner – Universal Preschool.com
Our longtime friend Diane Flynn Keith, author of the book Carschooling and editor of the journal Homefires, has written an open letter to Rob Reiner about the Preschool-For-All Initiative he introduced for the California ballot for 2006.
Diane has very wittily incorporated the titles of Reiner’s films [...]
Conservative college is creating clones – PittsburghLIVE.com
In the old Fantastic Four comic books, a villain known as the Mole Man planned to dominate the Earth with a clever plan. It involved covering the globe with millions of identical drone-people which the diabolical genius bred and brainwashed in a secret underground laboratory.
Fun reading for [...]
