Mark on February 26th, 2010

Another denigrating reference to homeschooling for what it’s worth:

After Brown voted to end the filibuster of the jobs bill, the teapartiers on Twitter and right-wing blogs went wild with condemnation, calling Brown a traitor and a RINO. These tea party people, who are noted for voting against their own self interests, apparently want the “freedom” [...]

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Mark on February 25th, 2010

In a piece pre-dated for Monday, March 8th, Time reports on the Romeike Asylum case again:

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Homeschool.
So why did he seek asylum in the U.S. rather than relocate to nearby Austria or another European country that allows homeschooling? Romeike’s wife Hannelore tells TIME the family [...]

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Mark on February 25th, 2010

There were a number of ways to view this piece in the Falls Church News-Press Online, but the view of homeschoolers and the homeschool movement is chilling:

It appears America’s religious fanatics are modeling their efforts on the success of radical Islamists in the Middle East, who reversed the trend of secularization in the region by [...]

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Mark on January 25th, 2010

Getting involved in partisan politics has never been a good way to further homeschooling freedoms. In their November-December 2004 Taking Charge column, Let’s Not Link Homeschooling to Partisan Politics, Larry and Susan Kaseman write:
“To homeschool, you don’t have to have any specific ideas about politics or religion or lifestyle. In 1984, a newspaper reporter wrote [...]

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Mark on October 7th, 2009

Found an an interesting response to a column titled “Even Government Envious Of Homeschooling Success” on The Clarion Ledger website by former State Superintendent, Richard A. Boyd.

Matt Friedeman’s column (“Even government envious of homeschooling success,” Aug. 30) praised the success of students who are homeschooled on academic tests, and went on to point out [...]

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