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		<title>Homeschooling Resources &#8211; How To Use Free Community Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Homeschoolers involve themselves with various community resources on several different levels. First and most common, is simply making use of services offered – for
instance, taking a class at a museum or buying a product from a local business. Next, homeschooling families or support groups might arrange to visit a local factory to see how furniture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Homeschool? An Interview with Jen McKinnon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please introduce us to your family members–names, ages, and a brief description of personalities, interests, parents’ occupations, etc.–whatever you feel comfortable sharing. We are a family of six, four children and two eccentric parents. Chuck, 36, went to school in Alberta Canada. He is extremely intelligent and for Junior High School was sent to a gifted school. He learned quickly that the school did more research about the students than providing a higher education for the students. It w]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things by Cy Tymony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things: How to Craft Eco-Garments and Sneaky Snack Kits, Create Green Cleaners, Remake Paper into Flying Toys, Assemble … a Robot Recycle Bin with Everyday Things is a fun and fabulous book for people that love to create their own gadgets. This book is almost like a science project book. Both my older kids are checking it deciding which fun gadgets and experiments they want to try. If you do homeschooling this might be a great book for you to get since it is]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Public School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost that time again… back to school . My daughter starts Kindergarten this year and both older kids are attending a new school. All summer I have been vacillating the public versus homeschool choice. Both kids want to attend public schools but it makes me really nervous. Our experiences thus far have not been so great. To make matters worse my local community is at war over a school levy that just failed. 51% of the community voted it down with the full understanding that if they did]]></description>
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		<title>Should Parents Be Responsible For Kids&#8217; Actions in School?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sit down and behave yourself will take on a new meaning in British schools this year. Under a government plan, parents of children enrolled in state schools will be required to sign a Home School Agreement regarding rules on attendance, behavior, school uniforms and homework. Should kids break the rules, their parents could face court proceedings and a fine up to $1,600. In explaining the reasoning for the new rules, the British schools secretary said : If the large majority of parents are d]]></description>
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		<title>A bonnet for the babe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a real hat mama. I insist that my wee ones wear hats nearly all the time during the first year of life -- and a lot of the time thereafter. ;) A lot of people ask me about this -- it's less and less common, it seems, to keep babies in hats. I have a lot of reasons for it -- to protect my (bald!) babies' delicate skin, to help keep their temperature regulated, because it's an old tradition (and I'm nothing if not into old tradtions!). Donna Simmons, the writer of the Waldorf homeschooling]]></description>
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		<title>On Not Locking Your Children Up in Public Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Jana Ball to Jeff Bryan: I just wanted to take a moment to praise your recent article, Pep Rallies and Public School . I am finishing up my 5th year of homeschooling my two children, and books like Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto’s searing commentary on being a teacher, were instrumental in our family’s decision to take our daughter out of school 6 years ago. My son has never had the humiliation of being locked up for even a day, a fact for which I am extremely grateful.My husband]]></description>
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		<title>Pie Fight Party: A Homeschooler’s Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Reader, Please excuse the delay in posting. We’ve been having such a full and marvelous time touring the country, that I’ve fallen behind in my blog posts. I thought about skipping a few stories, and coming back to them later, but I just couldn’t do it. I have to do this chronologically, I’m just compulsive that way. This means that I’m still sharing stories from before we hit the road, including the one about a fabulous end-of-year homeschool party that we attended. Dreaming of]]></description>
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		<title>Nico &#8216;The Natural&#8217; ready to make stage debut (The Sierra Vista Herald)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIERRA VISTA — At the winter break, 13-year-old Nico Zazueta’s parents pulled him out of charter school to home school him.]]></description>
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		<title>WEC girls in tourney final (Richmond Times-Dispatch)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carley Warthan scored 18 points, and Jordan Torrence added 16 as West End Christian defeated Spirit Home School 41-37 in the semifinals of the VCAA tournament last night. Morgan Thomson led Spirit with 10 points and 15 rebounds. West End advances to play the winner of Victory Christian-Central Virginia Home School for the VCAA title. SPIRIT HOME SCHOOL (16-6)]]></description>
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