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The time: a hazy morning in mid-August. The place: the very cluttered home of a homeschooling family with 5 children ages 4 to 12. The scene: the entire downstairs looks like the aftermath of an explosion in a combined toy store/book store (specializing in broken toys and books with bent covers). Dirty breakfast dishes and leftover food are liberally strewn about the kitchen table, counters, and sink. Baskets of laundry await washing, hanging, and folding. A recent calamity involvin

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For My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts…”

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the number of homeschooled kids. More than 1.5 million Americans now choose to educate their children at home. And that number may be growing by anywhere from 5 to 12 percent a year. As of spring 2007, 2.9 percent of all school-aged children in the U.S. were homeschooled. What’s behind this growth? Although the Supreme Court ruled in 1925 that parents have the right to homeschool their children, the homeschooling movement didn’t really gain tra

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Back to (Home) School

According to BBC News, the British government, following a report provided by former education chief Graham Badman, will force homeschoolers in England to register with the State and allow authorities access to their homes at least once a year. The stated purpose of this government oversight is to ensure that homeschooled children in England are receiving a “suitable education.” [1] If “parents do not meet certain standards,” according to the BBC, the children can be “sent back to school.” I

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UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: U.S. Homeschoolers’ Fears Confirmed in British Report

Home schooling is a growing force in the United States, where families opt out of the public education system in favor of parent-supervised study. The country’s evangelical Christian communities are largely behind the growth, seeking to teach their children Biblical creationism instead of the scientific theory of evolution. But home schooling by politically progressive families is also on the rise. Approximately 1.5 million children are home schooled. The most common reason cited by parents f

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The Home Schooling Trend

A Times reporter is working on a story about trends in teaching cursive handwriting and would like to talk with a homeschooler about whether or not you teach your children cursive.

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Cursive writing and homeschooling. E-mail us! (Cape Cod Times)

February is the shortest month of the year. So the calendar tells us. But homeschooling mothers know better. We know that February is actually the longest month. The weather is too cold to take the children out, and the children are way too restless to make even the roomiest mansion large enough. The bleak gray skies lower everyone’s spirits as the family stares out the window day after day, hoping for something more exciting than snow flurries.

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Homeschoolers Can Beat the February Blues

Today, I learned another perk to being a homeschooling mother: no time to waste watching daytime television like The “View.” I smiled with amusement tonight when I heard that Joy Behar said on air, “a lot of them are demented when they’re homeschooled.” How I would love the homeschooled high school teens I’ve seen in recent weeks respond to Joy, a former schoolteacher. The contrast between them and Joy would be immediately evident; the teens have manners and don’t interrupt people when the

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A Lot of Homeschool Kids are Wonderful