Posts Tagged ‘ home-school ’

A Lawsuit from Mimi

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Heather Idoni, a homeschooling mother, originator of HomeschoolingBOYS and owner of Beloved Books (home of the Sugar Creek Gang audio series), is a speaker on homeschooling topics at conferences and curriculum fairs. Heather edits The Homeschooler’s Notebook, and also manages EasyFunSchool as well as several other websites and homeschooling email groups. Heather has also...
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Homeschool Numbers On The Rise

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According to an article on the news blog for Channel 9 News in Chattanooga, Tennessee: Home schooling has increased in popularity across the country and here in Chattanooga. NewsChannel 9 hit the hallways for the first day of Hamilton County schools this week, and now we want to go to where home schooled students...
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Academic Anticipation

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An article titled Academic anticipation: Children, moms still get excited about new year even when school means staying at home appears in the August 3rd edition of the Ashland, Ohio Times-Gazette: For Megan Abel, and for most grade-schoolers, starting school after summer break means new notebooks, new subject matter and a new routine. But...
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Curriculum or Not?

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An Associated Press article which has been appearing around various Internet news sources addresses the question of curriculum with a look at unschooling: At ABC News: Home-School Options: Curriculum or Not? by Carole Feldman, Associated Press Writer: “Some home-school parents create their own curriculum for their kids. “There should never be a set curriculum,”...
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Author Laura Brodie Profiled

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In an article for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, descriptively titled Home schooling as a respite rather than a retreat from public schools, reporter Maureen Downey explains how Laura Brodie, author of the popular book Love in a Time of Homeschooling, never intended to embrace homeschooling full-time, calling herself a public school parent who chose to...
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Phoenix couple indicted in child abuse case

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The Associated Press has picked up on an abuse case involving “home-schooling”: PHOENIX — Authorities say a grand jury has indicted a Phoenix couple on child abuse charges involving their 14-year-old daughter. Police say the malnourished girl was locked in a bathroom without running water for two months, beaten with metal rods and forced...
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Online Learning and Homeschooling

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The title and subtitle tells us what the article is about. Online High Schools Test Students’ Social Skills As Digital Learning Programs Grow, Educators Hope to Prevent Teens From Feeling Isolated Online high schools are growing more popular. Roughly 100,000 of the 12 million high-school-age students in the U.S. attend 438 online schools full-time,...
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“Public schools lack civilizing influences”

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Department of rewrites. Tonight on KALB News Channel 5, 21 August 2007, Alexandria, Louisiana … many of us know people that home school their children. Home Schooling has many advantages but one of the criticisms launched against the practice is that children sometimes lack the elective skills, such as shop or art that kids...
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Vouchers for homeschoolers?

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Vouchers just one more way of subsidizing education, 14 July 2007, Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah My neighbor hates school vouchers because he does not believe that taxpayers should subsidize families choosing to send their children to private schools. He often says, “Utah families already have school choice. They can send their...
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Why not “homebound” instead of “home-schooled?”

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In the next story, there appears to be no intention on the part of the family to continue homeschooling after the sentence is served (“home-school” is a punishment, not a choice by the family) so why doesn’t the school just treat the boy as homebound? Sentence: Intensive probation — Hiland teenager admits to taking...
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