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While Isabel had been to preschool, the idea of marching her into the machine that is the NYC public school system was alarming. Paying tuition was not an option. Using New York City as the classroom, we decided that I would homeschool Izzy.

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NYC family’s home-school experience (New York Daily News)

Just met with the 11th Graders at Vineyard Christian Home School Co op and they decided to take the WWII helmet (that has made the news) to the widow of Anthony Malone in Conn.

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Idaho teens decide to take WWII helmet to Widow

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Well, you know what they say “it pays to save”. Yesterday we opened the kids savings accounts. They all received a gift of money for Christmas and have been saving change. So, I offered them a deal. You know me and deals. Well maybe you don’t know me and deals, but I love a little incentive to do something I wouldn’t push myself to do otherwise

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Homeschool Math: in the real world

Click here to view the embedded video. Jason Pye has your random bank failure stat of the day - 99.65% of banks that started 2008 ended 2008 without FDIC intervention. Donna Martinez has your random homeschooling stat of the day - homeschooling is up 36% between 2003 and 2007. Bonus item - there is a now 7th reason in the 2007 Department of Education’s survey - “an interest in a ‘non-traditional approach’”. Flip warns us to not fall for the $300 billion Obama tax cut next step in the return to

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The Morning Scramble - 1/6/2009

PURCELLVILLE, Virginia, Jan. 6 / Christian Newswire / — The National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of the Department of Education estimates that homeschooling grew 36% between 2003 and 2007. “Homeschoolers can now be found in all walks of life,” said Michael Smith, HSLDA President.

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Homeschooling Grows Rapidly (Christian News Wire)

Thomas and Roj you two blather a lot about homeschooling in a very negative and demeaning way. While as you both point out homeschooling does cut off children from thier peers who are educated in public schools and can hinder socialization to the world at large. However there are ways that homeschoolers can involve thier children in the public education processes through school sponsored field trips for educative purposes and then there’s little league and a host of other ways to involve homesc

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Thomas and Roj you two

i know i’m a few days late, but i’m finally ready for you. the bigs are back to school and i have a mcd’s diet coke - i can take on anything now. i haven’t settled on a word for the year a la ali e - i have a few bouncing around my head. 2008’s was forward - 2007 had been a year of treading water and hanging on as we got into the swing of homeschooling and welcoming sam into our family, so my goal for 08 was about making changes to get to where we wanted to be. i want to keep that moment

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dear 2009

Boing, or more accurately “sproing.” Trombone. Smaller cheaper accelerator? Hmmm. God and Mr Burris … and the press.

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The debate continues at our house. In KY when we were there we had our kids in private school. They started out at DoDea schools and we quickly became aware at the shortfalls in the system. There would be nothing we could do to fix that so we chose to move our kids. We LOVED having them in the school they were at. It was expensive but worth it because it is our children’s education. (let me back up and say that our girls also went to private school in TX) Fast forward to today. We moved to NC ab

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