Naperville area homeschoolers negotiated with school authorities, and common sense prevailed. A potential district policy revision demanding that a “district-approved external accrediting agency” certified any homeschool credits and grades transferred onto a public high school transcript was dropped.
The Naperville Sun reports this news from Indian Prairie School District 204’s school board meeting:
D204 compromises on [...]
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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 [...]
From the Chicago Tribune:
Parents hoping to emulate Barack and Michelle Obama
By Vikki Ortiz December 14, 2008
Tamar Williams, 28, of Bronzeville said interviews of Michelle Obama speaking about her children inspired her to begin home-schooling her own children.
“When you look at the Obamas, you can tell that they spend a lot of one-on-one time with their [...]
Harry Porterfield featured a homeschooling Illinois family on his long-running ”Someone You Should Know” series.
Large family values home-schooling, 14 August 2008, ABC7Chicago.com, Chicago, Illinois
Learning and studying is an almost everyday event within the walls of their own home. All 10 of the Anthony Family children are or have been home-schooled. And they say they wouldn’t have it any other [...]
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This article apparently was supposed to be about homeschooling in Illinois, but the focus was the California appellate decision.
The comments from readers — 55 ‘page downs’ worth – reflect the general state-of-the-discussion concerning homeschooling, as well as an indication of how people feel about participation by homeschoolers in community educational life.
Under fire elsewhere, home schooling thrives [...]
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Home away from homeschooling, 10 February 2008, Aurora Beacon News, Aurora, Illinois
Fifteen years ago, Doug Pierson, now the executive director at Crossroads, noticed a lot of homeschooled kids coming to the church’s gym for physical education. Some of the parents asked Pierson if he would start an organized P.E. class, and he obliged. Two years [...]
Home-schooled student makes the grade: Charleston teen earns scholarship to University of Chicago, 17 January 2008, Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, Charleston, Illinois
Borah’s academic work has paid off in another way, too, as he recently learned that he’ll receive a full-ride scholarship to the University of Chicago, which he got by applying through an organization [...]
Susan Ryan (usually at Corn and Oil) reports at Illinois Review on an article explaining that picking up all kids outside during the day is justified.
Daytime Freedom endangered in Lincoln
The cities and towns are doing their job for them. The schools have the names, addresses and phone numbers of truant students, but the city will [...]
Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’
WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman
The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston.
A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler
In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling mom related her kids [...]
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