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.”
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HEM’s Questions & Answers – July-August 2009
I’m begging for some advice from homeschool teens. How do you answer interrogations about why you don’t want to go to public school? And what answer do you give that gets them off your back while still maintaining your “coolness”?
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HEM’s Questions & Answers – July-August 2009
By default it looks like I am going to be the one homeschooling. My wife and I planned to teach our 4-year-old at home but now that I’m out of work and she has found a job it’s fallen in my lap. Not only am I nervous about doing a good job for my son’s sake, I have to admit that I’m embarrassed. Are there other men who homeschool out there? Mike
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Susan Ryan, homeschooling mom and activist in Illinois: “The saddest and most sickening piece of this mental health screening/drugging game is that proponents push through universal teenscreen or pregnant/new mother mental health screening legislation saying it’s “for the kids” who can’t get help because they’re “poor” or “rural”. “Poor” and “rural” seem to be synonymous to many of the city folks in our illogical society. Let alone using that to make mental health intervention necessary for all.” Keep reading:
Corn and Oil » Making one wonder.
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Homeschooling and Money
Don’t miss Mary Nix’s Homeschooling “not a matter of money” in the HEM News & Commentary.
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