Posts Tagged ‘ homeschool co-ops ’

Homeschooling Trendy?

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Huffington Post blogger Kate Fridkis writes about the New York Style Magazine article on upscale New York homeschool cooperatives: The New York Times Style Magazine piece about the trendy Brooklyn homeschoolers, “School’s In,” both did and didn’t remind me of my own pre-college education. My family called it unschooling, because we didn’t have any...
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School’s In

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In an article for the New York Style magazine, an article titled School’s In explores the trendsetting approaches to homeschooling being taken by Brooklyn hipster parents (including fashion photographers, a cinematographer, a dancer-choreographer and a sculptor among them) when the local schools didn’t quite pass muster. …is this a school, or artists trying to...
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One step forward, two steps back

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I’m assuming the writer of the headline meant that people have chosen other methods to educate their childen, but still use the word homeschooling to describe what they do. Homeschooling grows up, 21 February 2008, Catoosa County News, Ringgold, Georgia While some homeschool families are learning outside the box, others are finding innovative ways...
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Kansas City co-op

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Homeschool co-ops: Parents and children enjoy socialization, broad range of subjects, 2 May 2007, KC Community News, Overland Park, Kansas The Wines started the co-op along with four other families; today, it has grown to 200 children representing 70 families. For those who may not be familiar with co-ops, they are primarily an enrichment...
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Illinois co-op article

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Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, 14 April 2007, Decatur Area Cooperative offers a little extra to homeschoolers Maureen O’Brien’s eldest daughter attended traditional school, and O’Brien was stunned when she had to ask permission to take her to the orthodontist and provide proof afterward that it’s where they’d really gone. “I’m her mother,” O’Brien...
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Is it a tribal thing?

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I wonder if there is some kind of root instinct in people for banding together, because that’s how the co-op phenomenon looks. I even tried a co-op class for the kids, once upon a time, so I’m familar with (one form of) the motivation. I don’t know if it’s an ‘instinct’ or ‘urge’ or...
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Another red flag?

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This particular discussion in Virginia came to naught concerning homeschooling, but the subject of homeschooling was raised apparently concerning county home regulations. Homeschooling is mentioned in the sidebar, not the main article. Centreville Times, Centreville, Virginia, 20 December 2006, Accessory housing decision postponed During the citizens’ speaking time during Thursday’s evening supervisor meeting at...
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