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Holy Family School » News 9 hates homeschoolers
The power of the weblog as an effective tool for communicating the truth is clearly displayed in this excellent analysis and commentary of a television news report in Oklahoma:
Nick Winkler, a reporter at KWTV News 9 television station, has almost doubled the Orwellian standard. Instead of a mere [...]
News and Commentary: Alaskan strings ensnarl home educating families
HEM News & Commentary blogger Valerie Moon reports on a situation in Alaska that should help homeschoolers in other states understand why so many have voiced serious concerns about the direction in which cyber and charter schools are pushing families:
The author of the article went on to [...]
The Week Magazine
Hats off to The Week magazine for getting the historical beginnings of homeschooling right:
The movement started as an offshoot of 1960s counterculture. Education reformers began questioning whether the nation’s schools were helping or hurting American children. One of the leaders of the charge was John Holt, a former fifth-grade teacher. Holt argued in [...]
O’DonnellWeb: Homeschooling / Baseball / Technology Geek in Fredericksburg VA
“The oil under the state of Texas is national resource. My children are my children. The nation has no claim on them.” ~Chris O’Donnell, commenting on yet another article about homeschoolers with the oft-quoted line “Most Americans agree with the concept that our children are [...]
