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Public School Programs are not Homeschooling

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HEM Editorial: While the public school programs have effectively served the needs of some families, it is unwise to allow the perception to grow that they are equivalent to homeschooling. The very construct of these public school programs runs counter to the ability of families to handcraft an education for their children.
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Nashville Star contestant, Ashlee Hewitt, homeschooled in Minnesota

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‘A down-home country girl,’ 24 July 2008, Grand Forks Herald, Grand Forks, North Dakota While most everyone in northwestern Minnesota knows about the Hewitt Sisters act — which also included Lacey and 23-year-old Katrice at one time — not many know them well. One reason is that the family lives 19 miles east of...
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Horton Hears a Who

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The made-for-the-big-screen movie (88 minutes) of Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who, apparently diverges not only from the 1970 made-for-tv short animation program (26 minutes), but from the book, too (12 minutes, 15 seconds reading time by my kitchen timer). The books-into-movies discussion is too long, and complicated by the question of whether the...
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Want to get out of Facebook? Call yourself a homeschooler.

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Some people get in to Facebook, but can’t get out. It’s a problem of those breadcrumbs that get dropped on servers through all your Internet activities. On Facebook, leaving is hard to do, 11 February 2008, The International Herald Tribune Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from...
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Homeschooling parent in Maryland runs for school board

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Open Forum: Don’t disparage home schoolers, 31 January 2007, Business Gazette, Gaithersburg, Maryland Lastly, all home schoolers pay the taxes that fund Frederick County Public Schools. Surely, as taxpayers we have a vested interest to see that our money is spent wisely, including the school system. I agree. Taxpaying parents who homeschool have as...
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Honesty

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From some kind of search (there are too many to keep track of). I do remember that I wasn’t looking for public programs for home educating families. We’re Not All Cut Out for Homeschool, Toast Floats Polly has both optimistically and euphemistically referred to as one of our “supportive conversations about homeschooling and parenting”...
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Unfair and Unbalanced

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There was a debate on whether homeschooling is “inherently sexist”. Video of debate on Kelly’s Court The question was whether “Fundamentalist Christians” teach children enough liberal values as there is a researcher (and a few others) who want the state to chase them down. That’s the word from Fox News about another study about...
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Another interview with author of ‘God’s Harvard’

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Hanna Rosin, author of God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission To Save America is interviewed on Buzz Flash. Hanna Rosin Finds the Next Generation of the GOP Political Army for Christ at a Small College in Virginia Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 11/05/2007 – 6:13am Mark Karlin: Interviewer and admirer of Ms....
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Report out of UK claims homeschooling on the rise

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The Channel 4 news out of the UK has an online report available that claims homeschooling is on the rise in the UK. I don’t know what guidelines the UK has for tracking homeschoolers, but in the U.S. the best that anyone can do is a guesstimate. Despite that fact, there do seem to...
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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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