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Homeschool Family’s Ordeal – Lorain County, Ohio

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According to the suit, the search interrupted eight small children in the middle of a home-schooling lesson. The Stowers have eight children with the oldest serving in Iraq and the rest living at home, the suit says. A daughter-in-law and three grandchildren also live there.
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Inspiration to homeschool

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From the Chicago Tribune: Parents hoping to emulate Barack and Michelle Obama By Vikki Ortiz December 14, 2008 Tamar Williams, 28, of Bronzeville said interviews of Michelle Obama speaking about her children inspired her to begin home-schooling her own children. “When you look at the Obamas, you can tell that they spend a lot...
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I’m jealous, too.**

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A few weeks ago The Wall Street Journal outed a Babble post by Joanne Rendell, author of The Professors’ Wives’ Club. Unschooling Nonetheless, when I used the term “unschooling,” they needed an explanation. “There’s no good soundbite to describe it,” I said, “just as there’s no good soundbite to describe school. But generally speaking,...
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Again, homeschooling is ‘a choice,’ not part of NCLB’s ‘school choice’

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SC families deserve more school choices, 8 October 2008, Hilton Head Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Pessimists blame the standards, and say we cannot do better. It is time for parents, educators and lawmakers to rethink traditional public schools. “Public education” needs to encompass a dynamic range of classrooms, suitable to the...
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Review, I think, of Homeschooling book

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Home Blog Zone Civil Religion Homeschooling, 2008, 8 October 2008, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri Score:  -55 Credit: 5  The catalyst for the piece is Greg and Martine Millman’s book, Homeschooling:  A Family’s Journey . Penalties: -60 The ‘why’ of the article seems to be the poor curriculum of Catholic schools instead of the...
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Bread and butter sports article

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From Home School to the Gridiron, 8 October 2008, WGMB FOX 44, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 5 points Credits: Tim Tebow is highlighted, and the team is named. Penalty: The players are pigeonholed as “student-athletes.”
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Can I deduct homeschool expenses?

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Every once in a while, someone asks, “how do we deduct homeschooling expenses?” The short answer is, we don’t. Even if a state lodges homeschooling under the state’s private school statutes, homeschoolers are not running a business for their own children. If people accept money from other parents to school the children from another...
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Marketing to the niche

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A question came up on an email list about a ‘rewards’ system for homeschoolers:  My Homeschool Rewards  I’d never heard of it, so I went looking. A Who Is query showed that the My Homeschool Rewards site is registered to the Frankey Britton Group.   Googling for that name gives a list of 12 sites (as of...
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Australian release of Christopher Paolini’s book, Brisingr

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Christopher Paolini on inheriting JK Rowling’s crown, 29 September 2008, Melbourne Herald Sun. Melbourne, Australia 305 credits minus 100 demerits = +205 Credits:  Many direct quotes from Mr. Paolini, most of them to do with his writing and the books, and the history of getting his first book, Eragon, off the ground. Demerits:  Homeschooling...
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    Staying InformedThe issues facing homeschoolers today are fundamentally the same as 30 years ago when HEM was first published. While communication is easier the underlying social question is, can parents be trusted with their kids? Our political positions will support this answer in the affirmative. But this is not always the case nor is it always easy to un […]

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