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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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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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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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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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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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Hello everyone, I am currently on vacation, but a few of my readers volunteered to take over the site while I am away! They have written some excellent posts that I am sure you will love. I also have some posts I wrote answering your burning questions about The Happy Housewife. Enjoy! A Year’s Worth of Blessings As I reflect on 2008 I am amazed at how all the little things we so often take for granted pile up into something more than we could have imagined. This is how home schooling is for m

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State health officials will be observing the Mountain Home School District on Wednesday in a first-ever districtwide influenza vaccination clinic, according to John Calaway, assistant superintendent of Mountain Home Schools. The clinic may become an element in a model plan for vaccinating large numbers of people quickly in cases of emergency, Calaway said.

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Just after Thanksgiving, my dad hurt his back. Small piece of advice: Never get injured over the holidays when your regular doctor just left the practice. To make a long story short, he ended up losing feeling in his leg and by the time someone finally saw him, the doctor was upset he hadn’t been immediately admitted to the emergency room. As he went into surgery, he was given a twenty percent chance of spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair and a strong likelihood of never completely

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Traditional surveys show that the No. 1 reason parents choose to home school their children is religion, but a new factor arose in 2007 — an interest in a “non-traditional approach.”

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