Valerie on December 10th, 2007

Tebow takes Heisman Trophy, Sporting Life.com
The University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was awarded the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, completing a wonderful season for the player.
Not only is Tim Tebow a sophomore, but he’s a former homeschooled kid, too.
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The trend in news stories about ‘regular’ homeschoolers — who leave their houses, ’socialize,’ and go to college– remind me about the Europeans who ‘discovered’ the New World. People, nay, civilizations, were at home on the north and south American continents long before the Europeans set sail. But these well-peopled civilizations didn’t ‘count’ [...]

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Valerie on December 8th, 2007

The broadcasting station Radio Bremen aired a television program featuring an Irish/South African homeschooling family who live in Bremen.
The Neubronners are also briefly shown at a podium discussion (discussing the school which ran unregulated by the authorities for 28 years and which they now refuse to accredit) which took place that same day. The education [...]

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Valerie on December 8th, 2007

The following was forwarded to me from the Neubronner family in Germany:
Dagmar Neubronner asked me to inform you all that she received a letter from the Bremen Education authorities today, in which they are fined another 3000 euros, 1500 each for her and her husband, Tilman. This is on top of the other 4 500 [...]

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Valerie on December 8th, 2007

Before today, I had never heard of Amy Alkon, but thanks to Google’s tireless collecting of information, I have now. Ms. Alkon is an advice goddess in California, a syndicated giver of helpful information, so probably many people know of her. In late November she commented on a family featured in an article [...]

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