Military Homeschoolers

Air Force Times Article

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The Air Force Times features an article on homeschooling by staff writer Jon R. Anderson, titled the ABCs of Home Schooling: Experts estimate there are 2 million home-schoolers, with their numbers growing as much as 12 percent annually in recent years. And there is data to indicate that military families are home schooling at...
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Kentucky-The Flexibility of Homeschooling

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Summer breaks are different for home school families The News-Enterprise By KELLY R. CANTRALL Ingalls began home schooling her children because of her husband’s job in the military, which necessitated several moves for the family, she said. The accommodating nature of home schooling made the moves easier, including this past school year, when the...
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HSLDA Slips in the Back Door….Again

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Many homeschoolers are on the watch for back door legislation or other attempts to limit our families’ freedoms. “Universal” anything often gives us a heads up. Politicians discuss the potential advantages. Interested lobbyists look to see what they can get out of the deal. HSLDA (a homeschool member financed organization) often warns of government...
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CBS Morning Show features homeschooling

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Three Ways to Homeschool and Why Families Homeschool These are nice reports featuring homeschooling families, which is a turnaround from the 2003 CBS series, “A Dark Side to Homeschooling.” We’ve come a long way, baby? posted by Valerie
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Homeschool JROTC

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A couple of years ago during the discussions surrounding Section 10 of the HR 3753/S 1691 legislation (the Homeschool Non-Discrimination Act of 2005), I found out that participation in the Junior ROTC program increased the likelihood that any recruit would complete the first term of enlistment. For the sakes of the homeschooled graduates who...
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Protecting our Privacy

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Peggy Daly Masternak, a long time homeschool activist recently sent along an article, Public school students’ data available to anybody from the Toledo Blade by By IGNAZIO MESSINA/ It starts out by saying that: If your children are in a public school, their names, addresses, phone numbers, and grade levels are all on a...
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Homeschoolers help repair flag memorial

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In Kansas City, a family built a memorial to all the troops killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The memorial is made of one flag for each servicemember, and the display is impressive. Just before Veterans Day, vandals smashed many of the flags. I was saddened to read in the newspaper about the...
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Trumpeting that homeschoolers are accepted as military recruits

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While cleaning out my inbox, I read an older email from Google. It linked to the Washington Times article by HSLDA President Michael Smith about how HSLDA has caused the military services to see sense, and how the services now accept homeschooled graduates as Tier I recruits. High-scoring enlisted given top tier, 30 July...
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Nevada homeschool mom is a writer on hiatus

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Gardnerville writer puts work on hold while raising family, 27 July 2007, Reno Gazette Journal, Reno, Nevada “A Test of Love” began with an idea in 1995. A stay-at-home mom of four children, Scott thought book royalties might pay for the orthodontist. … By this time, she had added home-schooling to her daily routine....
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“Homebound” denial in Georgia

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The discussion of what it means for a state to provide a free education to all children — the difference between an education, and an education that fits the needs of each child – is playing out in Georgia (pages of comments at The Telegraph newspaper site). In this case, local authorities arrested Betsy...
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