Korea’s leading daily newspaper, the JoongAng Ilbo, reports Flu is changing spending: Home study products popular as schools avoided
“The spread of A (H1N1) flu virus is influencing consumer spending patterns, according to various industry sources.
The online marketplace Auction said yesterday that sales of homeschooling items such as reference books and educational toys increased this month on-year.
Referencing surprisingly high sales in items such as educational toys, science teaching tools, and sales of electronic books, writer Lee Eun-joo reported “…the increase in demand suggests more parents are homeschooling their children rather than sending them to private institutions where there is a relatively higher risk of being infected by the new flu.”
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“Homeschooling lifts a burden from schools and taxpayers. Whether we bond or not, the schools and the legislature should be encouraging parents to become self-reliant in the education of their children.
If elementary schools are going to experience 16% growth in the next five years, that need could be met if 16 children out of every 100 were taught at home. And since there are usually at least two children in each family, only 8 moms in every 100 would need to take up the challenge.”
Pioneering homeschool mom and author Joyce Kinmont, in an opinion letter to the editor of the Ogden, Utah Standard Examiner.
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John Holt and the History of Homeschooling “His great legacy is the homeschooling movement itself, which, without his considerable guidance and patient nurturing during its most formative years, would today be a horse of a very different color.”
More articles about this pioneering visionary:
A Tribute to John Holt, 1923-1985, by Pat Farenga
The Education of John Holt, by Mel Allen, Yankee Magazine, December, 1981
More on John Holt
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Laura Weldon has been a long-time columnist for Home Education Magazine, editing our popular Questions and Answers section in every issue.
Now Laura has drawn on her own experiences in homeschooling, plus the wisdom of over 100 families from around the world, for a book which brings the endless joys and wonders of homeschooling to light for her readers, and her book has a wonderfully descriptive title: Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything.
Free Range Learning smoothly blends the lessons of ancient knowledge into today’s cutting-edge research in childhood learning, methods of education, and other relevant disciplines, advocating for a natural approach to learning and sharing how many families have made free range learning a part of their daily lives.
“Children love to learn – and they’re good at it. That’s not a new idea, but it’s a critically important concept which has been stifled and twisted and denied for far too long. Thankfully, it’s also a frequent thread and the binding glue of Laura Weldon’s wonderfully affirming book, Free Range Learning. Through homeschooling her children and working as an effective homeschool advocate for many years, Laura Weldon developed an understanding of, and an appreciation for, an elementary wisdom which our society forgot somewhere along the way: Children can be trusted to learn. In this book, she joyfully shares that wisdom.” ~Helen Hegener, publisher, Home Education Magazine
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One of the earliest homeschool companies on the Internet, Home Education Magazine has had a respected online presence since 1997. Beginning with one of the very first Internet forums, HEM has contributed immeasurable support to the growth and development of the greater online homeschooling community. Today HEM continues to support, advocate, and advance homeschooling through the newest technological media such as Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Del.icio.us, Digg, and other social networking tools. Here are our favorites:
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Dear Mom, Do you remember this? A tiny girl sits, a little speck enveloped in the giant, red living room sofa. Tears stream down her chubby little cheeks. “I just can’t read anymore, Mom! It doesn’t make any sense,” I say, dropping the white list of phonetic words on the floor–rat, cat, bat, mat, sat–as tears overflow my blue eyes, making a bizarre wet pattern on the sofa fabric. Your worried hazel eyes, framed by prematurely graying hair, watch with helpless anxiety. Twisting your wedding ring, you told me later that you were filled with an overwhelming sense of powerlessness. Was it the right choice to take Sarah and Becky out of school? Am I competent enough to instruct them? I can’t even seem to teach Sarah how to read basic word lists. Over the next few weeks you used words from the list to write little stories, adapting them to my specific learning needs, and made those stories into booklets for me to read and color. And I learned something I will never forget: to love reading.
Continue reading Sarah Fletcher’s Ode to a Maternal Teacher from the May-June 2004 issue of Home Education Magazine.
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