Helen on December 16th, 2005

Home Education & Other Stuff » END AROUND?
Daryl Cobranchi is spearheading conversation about the Section 522 situation at his HEOS blog. Informative reading for anyone following these important developments.

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News and Commentary » Section 522 and a Memorandum from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
The effect of Section 522 would not only be to circumvent the conclusions of the CNA Study (and 30 years of prior research), but also to circumvent DoD policy that allows each service to determine who it will or will [...]

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Helen on December 8th, 2005

SCHOOL@HOME: What Makes a Homeschooler Symposium
A marvelous analogy from a blogger, Tenn, who presents an entire symposium on the suject at the link above:
“The best analogy to sum it up is the difference between homeschooling and public school at home to me is the difference between working at home for a company and owning your [...]

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Helen on December 4th, 2005

Mother Jones, Dec/Jan, 2006: A Nation Under God
The December/January 2006 Issue of Mother Jones magazine features the cover story, “A Nation Under God,” by John Sugg. The lead-in line reads: “Let others worry about the rapture: For the increasingly powerful Christian Reconstruction movement, the task is to establish the Kingdom of God right now—from the [...]

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Helen on December 2nd, 2005

National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD)
Did You Know:
There is a bill being considered at this time in Congress regarding the military, and section #522 mentions home education.
NHELD has examined this legislation and offers these arguments against it:
The problem with Section (1) of this section:
“The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe a [...]

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