Great looking “home-grown” veggies in the pictures
Homeschooling offers a rich soil for learning Tampa Bay Times
By MINDY RUBENSTEIN, June 27, 2009
They [homeschool support group] go on field trips to local parks and to the zoo. And they work together to tend a large, thriving garden at one member’s Zephyrhills home.
They grow herbs, watermelons, strawberries, corn, [...]
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Our family has visited a few libraries through the years. We have scoped out our favorites, and with gargantuan book check out lists and our sometimes unfortunate home tracking system, we pay our overdue fines without regret at those establishments. (We’re already overflowing our bookshelves, so borrowing a good read for a bit makes great [...]
As an Illinois homeschooler, this headline below published in the Fox Valley Villages Sun definitely got my attention as a very strange possibility. Homeschoolers are independent of the public school system, and school district policies shouldn’t have anything to do with a homeschooler’s graduation.
Policy revisions could hurt home-schoolers
Proposed changes could make it impossible for them [...]
The news that the Alabama Senate committee blocks Tim Tebow Bill is certainly not surprising. You can go to the site to read more about it, but one sentence caught my eye, Erwin said the bill would not impose a burden on schools, but state education officials said the bill is unworkable because there are [...]
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Maryland- Unschooling “research needed in order to justify it”
From home schooling to ‘unschooling’
By Joe Burris of the Baltimore Sun
If most [people] think back to their own school experiences, how much of the information you were expected to learn do you know today?” added Conner, an unschooling parent. “We cannot know beyond the shadow of a doubt precisely what our children will need when [...]
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