“Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat…” -from the old nursery rhyme and carol: Christmas is Coming
With the Big Day only a week away, I thought it would be nice to share some Christmas thoughts. Of course, I realize that my very diverse readership includes many who either don’t celebrate Christmas, or who celebrate [...]
Shay Seaborne has had an essay on her blog, SynergyField, for several months now, titled A Homeschooler’s Changing Perspective on Authority Figures. She writes, “…this woman is trying to muster the courage to face the school division, because, as she stated, ‘these people intimidate me.’ I noted that, ‘It is common to feel intimidated by [...]
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.
My fellow bloggers here [...]
Somehow I’ve gotten myself entangled in an interesting conversation about homeschooling in the education forums over at the national advertising/discussion site known as craigslist. The gist of the current thread of conversation is whether homeschooling is hard work or, as a poster just accused me of labeling it, a cakewalk.
Many of the posters seem [...]
For the past couple of days there’s been an interesting discussion about the history of homeschooling laws and regulations taking place on the HEM-Networking list.
The discussion started with this post on Monday, in which the writer asked, in part: “…in the history of homeschooling, before we had laws (home education, homeschooling, home instruction, etc/) what [...]
