This one’s not really about homeschooling but it’s nostalgically warm and fuzzy.
The Register-Guard, Peoria, Illinois, 20 Sep 2005Â This teacher’s home school is old school
You can’t beat the commute. "It’s about six seconds from the coffee pot in the kitchen to the classroom," Hinkle says.
She retired in 1997 after 19 years at the two-room Harris [...]
HR 3753, 109th Congress, First Session, 13 September 2005, Home School Non-Discrimination Act of 2005
The bill itself can be found by typing HR 3753 into the search box at the Thomas site provided by the Library of Congress. The link expires so a search needs to be done each time.
In 2003 a similar bill was unilaterally introduced [...]
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Update, 15 Sep 05:
The news concerning the children in Ohio whose sleeping arrangements appeared to be ‘cages,’ continues to develop, and complications about reporting about it in this forum, also develop. In the last-noted news article of this update (below), it is reported that the children are enrolled in the Ohio Connections online public-school-at-home [...]
Seeing a pattern in bureaucratic oversight of homeschooling?
It may be merely a ‘back to school’ focus, or it could show a desire for a return to ‘olden times’ when there was no relief from compulsory attendance at school, or a cash-flow problem for districts who either want or need more money in their system. Whatever the cause is, the number of [...]
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