Helen on March 25th, 2007

Several of the discussion lists and weblogs which I frequently visit have recently focused on the topic of homeschooling and public charter schooling. It’s not a new subject, by any means, but the conversation this time around seems different in a few ways, and some of those ways are very encouraging.
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Helen on February 11th, 2007

by Pat Montgomery
Melissa Busekros is a fifteen-year-old girl, the oldest of six children in the Busekros family. She lives in Erlangen, Germany. Melissa attended the Christian Ernst High Gymnasium until the summer of 2004 when she was told that she would have to repeat the grade because she was failing in Latin and [...]

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Helen on September 27th, 2006

Our friend Susan Ryan also comments on an Ohio curfew situation: Corn and Oil » Legal Group may no longer have a problem¦
She writes, “if a daytime curfew is approved, homeschoolers will have to prove that they’re homeschoolers when they’re out and about. And that just seems wrong to me.”
Seems wrong to us too.

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Susan Ryan writes a good interesting post about a study regarding expelled pre-schoolers and also about finding out what problems babies and pre-schoolers have that should be evaluated by ‘experts’ on her blog Corn and Oil » “Bureaucracy IS the `problem child’”.
Susan writes, “Also mentioned in the article was the hope by many proponents to [...]

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Helen on August 29th, 2006

Trying to catch up with some of my favorite blogs and came across this from Spunky, which I thought deserved excerpting here (I strongly advise clicking over and reading her entire post):
SpunkyHomeSchool: The Online Charter Homeschool Myth
“For the record, I don’t care what curriculum Dan or anyone else chooses to homeschool their children. It’s your [...]

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