O’DonnellWeb – The virtual street corner of my life, since 1995
As the lapse in posting here shows, I’ve been busy with many projects this past week, both relating to homeschooling and in real life. I haven’t been following the news about homeschooling as closely as I’d like to and usually do, and I’ve left reporting [...]
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 [...]
HEM blogger Daryl Cobranchi has provided the complete text of the recently revived, HSLDA-written bill for a Home School Non-Discrimination Act, so I won’t replicate it here. But this is a bill that should be killed – again – for the same reasons we’ve made very clear before. However, this time around, a section on [...]
DirectNIC
This has been one of the most compelling and consistently readable blogs on the harrowing New Orleans situation. Michael Barnett is the Crisis Manager of a communications team (Intercosmos Media Group, Inc.) who remained on the 10th floor of their office building in New Orleans. In his own words: “This journal has become the Survival [...]
Alaska: Anchorage Daily News letters
Last week, in a post titled Alaska’s Law Challenged, I shared the letter I’d written to our state’s largest newspaper in response to a letter calling for changing Alaska’s homeschooling law.
I was pleased and surprised earlier this week to receive a nice email note from Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor, Loren Leman, [...]
