While homeschoolers will continue to live their lives according to their beliefs and convictions, public perception of homeschooling can make life easy or much harder.
With that in mind, NBC’s Housewives series has written homeschooling into their script. From this week’s online summary:
Reading, writing and respect: When Juanita lets a swear word fly in her school [...]
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Henry Cate at Why Homeschool, has a link to a humorous post about the “NCLB version of football.” A couple of the funny points are that all teams will win championships and only game scores from the 4th, 8th and 11th games will count towards the team’s standing.
Just as journalists write about homeschooling from their own point of view, cartoonists draw their mini-stories while referencing their own beliefs about homeschooling.
Recent cartoons point up the differences:
Luann: benefits of “social interaction” at school
New Yorker: homeschool ‘prom’
I don’t find the Luann cartoon to be too different from what many kids endure at school, but I find it curious that the New [...]
Pity poor Humphrey. The PM got right round him — this time.
Years ago, my parents and I loved both Yes, Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister when they were included among the PBS prime time programs. Humphrey and his minister (think congressperson) were always trying to outhink each other as Humphrey was always protecting the government [...]
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‘Guitar Hero’ whiz aiming higher, 3 August 2008, WRAL.com, Raleigh, North Carolina
So they made a deal. Blake could leave school but would have to be tutored at home. In one respect, the arrangement is similar to what parents of gifted child athletes and actors have done for years.
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This is how he knows he’s good. [...]
I wondered why no one else had picked up this article from Newsweek … and then I looked at the date.
Jul 2 (1 day ago)
Google News Alert for: “home-schooler”
Home Schooling: More Than A Million Kids And Growing: Can It Work … Newsweek – USA “”Today almost everyone knows a home schooler, so it’s more socially [...]
Who’s gonna watch the monkeys, if the teacher’s out?
So asks “Mom.”
Abuse?, 24 June 2008, Mom is Teaching
I say that parents be required to have certifications before attempting to parent thier children unsupervised during the long summer vacation. They should also be required to report back to the professional teachers during the vacation months to make [...]
I caught a glimpse of this somewhere else the other day (too many articles, too little time), and now I’m catching up with the news alert backlog.
The op/ed is a scathing take on the point of view that homeschooling must be regulated.
Drooling Home-Schooling Ruling, 18 June 2008, River Cities Reader, Davenport, Iowa
“Cindy Kayshan of the Sacramento BeeEss. [...]
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I’ve heard of families having a homeschool name, but I never considered a mascot. Sounds kind of fun.
Do homeschoolers have mascots?, Why Homeschool
I got to wondering, are there homeschoolers who have a school mascot?
