Those were the words of Janet Willis, an Illinois homeschool mom, whose family suffered sheer devastation on a Wisconsin highway in November of 2004.
There have been numerous legal actions resulting from this tragedy. Nine people, including the six Willis children, were killed in crashes with truck drivers who paid bribes for licenses when current felon [...]
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Homeschooling pioneer Nancy Wallace, author of Child’s Work: Taking Children’s Choices Seriously, and Better Than School: One Family’s Declaration of Independence died June 27th.
Many homeschoolers of the 1980s and 1990s will remember reading about Vita and Ishmael, and wondering if our children would ever rise to that standard.
Our condolences to the family.
According to the Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit website, Jim Montgomery, the husband of Clonlara founder Pat Montgomery, died on 15 December during a heart bypass operation.
In Memoriam — Jim Montgomery
(my translation) Pat Montgomery full-heartedly supported the German homeschooling movement. In the summer of 2003, she traveled from the USA to a meeting for the initiative [...]
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Many of us already know that homeschooling our children is no magic shield against violence and tragedy, but it is so sad to hear when the hope of protection is shattered.
Teenage killer sentenced — Girl gets 25-year term for fatal stabbing of light rail passenger, 7 December 2007, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland
A teenage girl [...]
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United Kingdom Home Education: “Astonishingly efficient”
There you have it.
I caught an article by Adharanand Finn yesterday in the UK Guardian’s Mortarboard blog. Finn pointed out an August ‘o8 article [No School Like Home] about 2 authors who had followed some homeschoolers around. They discovered this :
Alan Thomas, a visiting fellow in the institute’s department of psychology and human development, and [...]
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