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Homeschooled Politics

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A group of home school students from Sequim and Port Angeles are defying teenage stereotypes by getting involved in local politics. Over the course of the 2010 primary and general election season, about 30 home school students have campaigned for political candidates in state and federal elections, attended debates and candidate forums and organized...
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Homeschoolers & Sports

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Interesting article from ESPN: “With action sports now an estimated $20 billion global business, and sponsors providing substantial salaries to young talent in an effort to lock up the next generation of stars, a growing number of athletes in surfing, skateboarding, BMX, motocross and snowboarding have discovered that their career aspirations conflict with school....
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Class Dismissed

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3StoryFilms is working on an upcoming documentary entitled: Class Dismissed: Education And The Rise Of Homeschooling In America. Class Dismissed will be the first full-length documentary devoted to exploring homeschooling as a viable alternative to the industrial school model. This film will show how homeschooling is not only rapidly growing in popularity, but how...
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Homeschooling in Zimbabwe

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A very interesting article titled Homeschooling way to go? by Monica Cheru-Mpambawashe, appears in in the October 9 edition of The Herald: In Zimbabwe most homescholars use a syllabus designed in South Africa. A pro-homeschooling blogger claims that as of May 1, 2010 South Africa had more than 100 000 students on homeschooling. SA...
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Texas School District Sues

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In an increasingly bizarre situation a school district in Texas is “seeking to bankrupt” a now-homeschooling family. Writing for the Houston, Texas FOX News channel, reporter Greg Groogan explains the case in an article he titled School District Seeks to Bankrupt Disabled Student’s Family: In May, 2007, after learning that their son Chuka was...
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The Freedom to Homeschool

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The last of three articles on local homeschooling families is a positive, upbeat article from the Oct. 7th issue of the Dansville-Genesee Country Express in Dansville, NY, titled Homeschool Gives Choice to Students, Parents: The freedom to pursue what a parent deems best for their child is still allowed in America. That’s the feeling...
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A Journey to Unschooling

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A Journey to Unschooling by Mary Hickcox appears in the current issue of the newsletter, Dissident Voice: When I first heard about unschooling 8 years ago I thought it seemed crazy. I thought all the things that some of you are thinking right now. What about socialization, grades, college? My children need to go...
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TodayShow.com Features Homeschooling

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Todayshow.com is featuring homeschooling in a weeklong web-only series of articles. The coverage has been showing different aspects of homeschooling, and portraying past stereotypes and stigmas as fading away as homeschooling goes increasingly mainstream.
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Homeschool Techo-Literacy

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Kevin Kelly’s Achieving Techno-Literacy appeared in the Sept. 16th issue of The New York Times: One day our student would dissect and diagram the inside organs of flowers; the next he’d write short stories or poems and then revise them; and the next day we’d solve logic problems with algebra, then he’d work on...
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Homeschooling: friend or foe?

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An introspective essay, Homeschooling: friend or foe?, in an online news site for Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County, Michigan: “My initial reaction to Gordon’s zeal for non-institutional education was something along the lines of “but honey…we want our children to have social skills.” I was indeed a reflection of a possible stigma surrounding those...
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  • Class Dismissed
    Class Dismissed is a new movie in production which is questioning whether schools, public or private, are really the best education option for many families, and it will be the first feature-length documentary to focus on homeschooling. From the website: “From home study and kitchen table math, to perpetual recess and park days, Class Dismissed follows the s […]

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