Posts Tagged ‘ private school ’

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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County mayor requests Library homeschool program to be pulled

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Kandy over at unschooling-dotcom recently posted a letter from homeschool author, Sonya Haskins stating that the program she was scheduled to offer at her local Jonesborough, TN library had been canceled. Ms. Haskins explains why: I am an author and homeschooler. My latest book is about homeschooling – The Homeschooler’ s Book of Lists....
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Economic downturn closes NY school

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Binghamton private school closes doors, 29 September 2007, News 10 Now, Syracuse, New York And won’t be happening for at least the rest of the year. Declining enrollment and hard economic times in recent years are reasons for closing the only nonsectarian private school in the area. … Some parents...
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The subject wasn’t homeschooling

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This is one of those reports that show up and make me wonder how it got into Google’s homeschooling pile. Leman: Don’t pick school for wrong reasons, 14 August 2007, Tucson Citizen, Tucson, Arizona Question: We have chosen a small, private school for our children. We like the school a lot, but I worry...
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Growth of sports league in Tennessee

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Cookeville Herald Citizen, Cookeville, Tennessee, 9 January 2006, New home for basketball “These guys that are home-schooled, we wanted them to have an opportunity to be involved in basketball and have a program so this league was available,” said Daniel 1 head coach Carl Bullis. “We’re the only home-schooled group that’s in it; the...
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An Israeli Gatto?

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This article reads like John Taylor Gatto in a nutshell. Arutz Sheva, Israel Broadcasting Network, Bet El, Israel, 13 December 2006, State-Financed Education: Pass or Fail? And therein lays the universal problem of state-sponsored education in providing an atmosphere where children can learn. The combination of “state” and “education” is something that I contend...
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Gilroy, California again

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The school district of Gilroy, California has been featured in other blog posts here at NewsComm. Fear-mongering in California, 28 May 2005 Ann: A week after writer/homeschooler Cynthia Walker writes an article (above) about how to homeschool in California using a private school or the R-4 affidavit, attendance officer Frank Valadez comes out with...
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Another reason to homeschool: soda pop

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I was avoiding this entire subject, but a Google alert popped it up. Free Market News, Montreal, Quebec, 4 May 1006, Save Our Sodas! Write you (sic) school. Visit the principal. Call Clinton. Complain to the beverage companies. Consider a private school or home-schooling and join silent, panoramic Exodus of the growing number of...
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