Posts Tagged ‘ Illinois homeschooling ’

Illinois Challenges

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Homeschoolers in Illinois are facing challenges to their situation as described in this Sun-Times article by Fran Eaton, titled Homeschooling Parents Not Eager for States Help: Homeschoolers can be called a lot of things because they’re so independent and self-sufficient, and that seems counter-intuitive in today’s world. But they’re not as paranoid as some...
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Refusing the Carrot – The Tax Credit Issue

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Refusing the Carrot – The Tax Credit Issue

The New York Times put most homeschoolers into an undesirable, non-bid for fame.  We’ve been profiled as a special interest group wanting something (money) from these “new Republicans.”   I don’t know about many other homeschoolers, but I’d rather step out of this particular limelight of perceived hands held out. As an Illinois homeschooler,...
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African-American Homeschoolers

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The January 2 Chicago Tribune features an article titled African-Americans Choosing to Home-School: Home-schooling experts say more African-American families are choosing to school their children at home, opting out of public schools, which critics say may be not only failing their children, but also in some cases shortchanging them of their history. “That is...
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Homeschooling Taught Lessons

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From the Southtown Star, an edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, an article by Fran Eaton titled Homeschooling taught lessons for both children and parents: Any day now, we’ll all be hearing those familiar sounds of school buses and young voices shouting out as the kids head back to school. That first day marks a...
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Illinois Anti-homeschool Agendas

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Susan Ryan at Corn and Oil cautions: “I want to point out again…that the Regional Offices of Education are systematically pushing for daytime curfews in Illinois communities to rein in homeschoolers. It’s all over the state, but quite a few southern Illinois communities in a couple of Regional Offices of Education areas with anti-homeschool...
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Homeschool Not Like Old School

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An upbeat piece titled Home school not like old school, focusing on members of the Westside House, a chapter of Illinois Home Oriented Unique Schooling Experience, or HOUSE, which bills itself as an inclusive, non-sectarian network of homeschooling support groups, appeared in the May 11th La Grange, Illinois edition of MySuburbanLife.com, which serves Chicago’s...
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Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’

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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston. A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling...
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IL School Authorities Give Credit Where Credit is Due

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Naperville area homeschoolers negotiated with school authorities, and common sense prevailed. A potential district policy revision demanding that a “district-approved external accrediting agency” certified any homeschool credits and grades transferred onto a public high school transcript was dropped. The Naperville Sun reports this news from Indian Prairie School District 204′s school board meeting: D204...
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“Home schooling is a well-known and established means of education”

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That quote in the header was from a Cook County (Chicago) Circuit Court summary judgment in favor of the Chicago Virtual Charter School (CVCS).   Why were they talking about homeschooling in a virtual school judgment?  This week, the Chicago Teachers Union lawsuit claiming Chicago Public School/IL State Board of Education authorization illegalities was...
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Educational Rigor

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As an Illinois homeschooler, this headline below published in the Fox Valley Villages Sun definitely got my attention as a very strange possibility.  Homeschoolers are independent of the public school system, and school district policies shouldn’t have anything to do with a homeschooler’s graduation. Policy revisions could hurt home-schoolers Proposed changes could make it...
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