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Four children of a family that fled Germany to avoid further fines for homeschooling have been snatched from their home in France by police and accused of “being alone,” according to a report today on the ongoing war against home education across the continent. The word comes from the Home School Legal Defense Association, which has been involved in a long list of cases of persecution of homeschooling families across Europe, especially in Germany. Read more…

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French police grab 4 kids on German orders

The Carnival of Homeschooling #197 is hosted this week at Walking Therein . She shares a lot of insight into how they teach their own. Jacque is also hosting the Homesteading Carnival this week. Carnival of Homeschooling How Did October Get Here So Quickly? All of a sudden school officially started, the leaves started turning orange and red, and the temperatures dropped too cold for and Indiana Fall. I surely don’t know how time flies by us so quickly, but I am already longing for warmer tem

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Carnival of Homeschooling: Our Home School

I get emails all the time asking me to mention things on this site. Sometimes, they’re worth telling you about. A few came along recently. Free Printables A website filled with Free Printables : Calendars, Cards, Worksheets, Games, Puzzles, etc. Hey, it’s free. Check it out . Nick Hotel I’ve never been to a Nickelodeon Hotel but it sounds like a good off-season deal

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Some Homeschool Deals

From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: This family’s children are now grown but a lawsuit over state oversight of their homeschooling continues. “The home education statute requires that Dr. and Mrs. Newborn cede jurisdiction to the school district and become excessively entangled with this government agency relative to their religious education in that the home education statute gives the superintendent authority, jurisdiction and discretion to approve the appropriateness of the religious educat

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Couple challenges homeschool law in Pittsburgh

I’m totally reposting an old post for My 3 Boybarians’ Blog Hop. Not all that much has changed since the last time I posted on the topic, except that I have a fifth child now. First, we have the independent learning center. This is where children may come to select activities and interact with one another during self-directed, exploratory activities.

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Not quite a homeschool room

The Carnival of Homeschooling: Summer Transition Edition Hosted this week at Our Curious Home . Welcome to the Summer Transition Edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling. Summer may have started two days ago, but my routines have not caught up. I feel pulled in two directions at once! Last month at the standardized testing co-op, I asked the Moms (and a few Dads) how they transitioned to Summer. Many told me, “Testing is the end of the year,” some adding, “If we’ve finished the math book!”

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The Carnival of Homeschooling: Summer Transition Edition

The Globe and Mail out of Canada has some nice commentary on homeschooling. I particulary liked the fact that the author’s “conversion” to a supporter of homeschooling occured not after being inundated by statistics and well-crafted arguments. Instead, she was confronted with a roomfull of homeschoolers in a homeschool information night at her library. Seated beside a mom with coiffed hair, polished nails and an elegant suit, I listened wide-eyed as audience members talked about a world I

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Government funded homeschooling

HSLDA—USA Today Gets Homeschool Story Wrong HSLDA has some interesting facts on the mis-reporting by USA Today. USA Today depicted a profound shift in homeschooling demographics. The report they were quoting however, shows no such thing. Perhaps the writer was just in a rush to be first, since his story was published on the day the NCES report was released online, or perhaps he has an agenda to falsely paint homeschoolers as rich and white, thereby dismissing the full range of people who are ma

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U.K. Tightens Leash on Homeschoolers LifeSiteNews.com has more on the increasing persecution of homeschoolers in the UK. Families will be forced to register with authorities and could face criminal penalties if they are deemed to be inadequately educating their children. The compulsory program will be administered by local councils who will visit parents intending to homeschool within one month of registration. Parents and guardians, the rules say, “must provide a clear statement of their ed

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U.K. Tightens Leash on Homeschoolers

(Home) school’s out forever in the UK? From the UK’s Guardian news site. A government investigation into homeschooling as a possible cover for child abuse has parents worried. There’s also a link in the story to a previous, very positive article about homeschooling in the UK. The mention the book by the Institute of Education, University of London How Children Learn at Home which concludes homeschooling is an “astonishingly efficient way to learn.” Home educators have been feeling nervo

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(Home) school’s out forever in the UK?