Posts Tagged ‘ military homeschooling ’

Kentucky-The Flexibility of Homeschooling

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Summer breaks are different for home school families The News-Enterprise By KELLY R. CANTRALL Ingalls began home schooling her children because of her husband’s job in the military, which necessitated several moves for the family, she said. The accommodating nature of home schooling made the moves easier, including this past school year, when the...
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A victory for a military homeschooling family in CT

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An update on the situation in Connecticut concerning the homeschooling mom whose husband was militarily deployed when the problems began: Hoo Ya! A Victory For A Military Homeschool Family in CT!, 6 July 2007, Consent of the Governed The DCF Commissioner, Susan Hamilton, send a certified letter to Isabelle Hall-Gustafsen, whose husband had been...
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Taking the good with the bad

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Last week a reader sent me a link to the following article which was copied at a blog. I misread the attribution and read the article as if the blogger wrote it. (apologies to the blogger for my acerbic reply to my correspondent) I should set the record straight, for myself if for no...
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The benefit of homeschooling overseas is not in avoiding the local culture

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Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio, 21 January 2007, Library offers program to benefit homeschoolers With her husband in the military, Kim said her family, like many other military families, has had to move around a lot. They lived in Germany for seven years, and not knowing the language or culture, made homeschooling Kody an even...
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DoD concludes home-ed subsidy program at end of the 2006/2007 school year

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This development is a follow-up to the announcement last September of a change of providers for the program. American Forces Information Service, Washington, D.C., 24 January 2006, DoDEA to Discontinue Remote Home School Program WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007 The Department of Defense Education Activity will discontinue its Remote Home School Program beginning in school...
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Dad returns from deployment

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Chelmsford Independent, Concord, Massachusetts, 21 December 2006, Home for the holidays The Baxter family probably doesn’t have too much left on its Christmas wish list because they got everything they wanted when Lt. Col. Brent Baxter returned home from Afghanistan a couple of weeks ago. Brent, who had been overseas for about five months,...
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