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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From some kind of search (there are too many to keep track of). I do remember that I wasn’t looking for public programs for home educating families.
We’re Not All Cut Out for Homeschool, Toast Floats
Polly has both optimistically and euphemistically referred to as one of our “supportive conversations about homeschooling and parenting” but to [...]
Financial Home Schooling, 25 April 2007, Washington Post, Washington, D.C. What was the hook to get them to sit still for 40 minutes? The next raise in their allowances was contingent upon it.
At a time when financial independence is increasingly a function of an individual’s money management skills, we owe it to our [...]
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Dana, at Principled Discovery, broke the story.
Principled Discovery, 27 February 2007, New Jersey Superior Court shocked by New Jersey homeschooling laws
In an odd opinion delivered in response to a disagreement between divorced parents concerning the education of their seven children, the justices express a clear concern for the neglect of the state in the education [...]
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Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, 28 December 2006, Tweens in transition
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Being a tween (ages 9-12) or early teenager is a lot trickier than it used to be. By the time children reach high school, many already have begun dabbling in high-risk behavior.
About 21 percent of eighth-graders have used illicit drugs at least once, according to the [...]
Goshen Chronicle, Goshen county, New York, 18 December 2006, Family invites community home to watch global warming movie
Chester screening joins thousands nationwide
Chester Lee Squires-Sussman and her husband, Michael, of Chester are inviting the community to their home at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s movie about global [...]
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More News From Scotland
The Scottish organization, the Schoolhouse Home Education Association ( http://www.schoolhouse.org.uk/ ) and the groups Secretary and Press Officer, Alison Preuss were featured in an interview in the January HEM Support Group News . Alison told us at the time that the education climate in Scotland can get quite hot at times. She wrote:
We have [...]
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