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I love this essay by Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir, who, along with his wife Leslie is homeschooling in Brooklyn. Excerpt: At the risk of gross generalization, there’s a hierarchy of responses when you drop the home-school bomb in conversation. Childless men…

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Confessions of a liberal homeschooler

I am a Christian, homeschooling, cloth diapering, stay at home mom to a 5 yr old boy, 3 yr old girl, and a baby boy. I talk about homeschooling, parenting, grocery shopping, religion, spirituality, God and Jesus, motherhood, what it is like to be a woman and anything in between that I find interesting or thought provoking. Name of Blog – Are you there God? It’s Me. Blog URL – http://jayota1209.blogspot.com No. of Subscribed Readers – 26 Google Page Rank – Coming Soon No. of current m

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Are you there God? It’s Me.

I get this question a lot. Or I get the corrollary “I could never homeschool.” When I hear this, I don’t assume that people mean “I could never actually teach an 8 year old the multiplication tables, or what a cell is” – because obviously, nearly everyone could. I think most people who find homeschooling unimaginable envision home education as a smaller version of public school. They imagine that it would be the parent’s job to keep their children firmly at their desks, to reproduce school

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What Is It Like to Homeschool?

First, see here: Homeschooled Girl Ordered to Attend Public School Over Her ‘Rigid’ Faith | The Church of Jesus Christ . I believe that had the argument been solely based on the father’s desire to see that his daughter was public schooled, then yes, it possibly could have been the duty of the court to intervene – after all, as part of the divorce proceeding, the primary custodian – the mother – had agreed to share decision making capability with the father. However, that is not the case

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More on the New Hampshire Homeschooling Case

What happens when a child believes in the God of her parents? Why, send them to public schools: Amanda Kurowski is a 10-year-old homeschooled girl who performs well academically and is socially well-adjusted. But her strong Christian beliefs were reason enough for a New Hampshire court to order her out of homeschooling and into a public school. Why you ask? In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, the Guardian ad Litem – who acts as a fact finder f

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Homeschooled Girl Ordered to Attend Public School Over Her ‘Rigid’ Faith

This week I got involved in a long back and forth comment conversation with a Christian homeschooling parent on a blog post about homeschool regulation . To make a long story short, near the end of the conversation I wrote the following: A child who is brought up to believe in creation is mostly likely (depending on the specifics of it) being taught bad science and missing out on what good science really is. And that is a shame. To which she replied, in part: Good science according to

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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

Novelist Jodi Picoult profiled in today’s NYT Magazine:It was not always the case that the imperiled child was at the center of American popular culture. . . .[but] the endagered or ruined child has emerged as a media entity within a culture that has idealized the responsibilities of parenthood to a degree, as has been exhaustively noted, unprecedented in human history. The more we seek to protect our children, the more we fear the consequences of an inability to do so..

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Power of Story Behind Homeschool Regulation Psychology?

When Liz Sue decided to homeschool her three children, she wanted to find a group that would supplement not only the educational areas she was teaching them but the morals and beliefs, as well.

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Homeschooling group caters to Christians (Mundelein Review)

First time I’ve heard anyone put it quite like this!I will never understand why parents who would never allow their children to set foot in a public school would encourage — or at least not discourage — their children to join the U.S. military and not only face government propaganda and immorality on a much greater scale than exists in the public schools, but participate in bringing death and destruction to the latest “enemy” of the U.S. empire.

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HSLDA-Affiliated Homeschoolers in Military: QOTD