Posts Tagged ‘ public school ’

Inquiry, Creativity and Unstructured Exploration

Charles Wohlforth is a respected author of award-winning books on science and the environment, politics and history, and travel and biography, including The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, and The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth, to be published in June. In an opinion...
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It’s Not the Homeschooling, ctd.

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Homeschooler Jamie Rhodes has her Viewpoint published: Parents choose to homeschool for a variety of reasons by Jamie Rhodes. This is in response to the editorial, article and letters calling for stricter homeschool guidelines and laws. There are many points of view, however the general theme seems to be that public institutions offer a...
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Fumbling “Homeschooling”

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Most reader know I have strong opinions about how the term ‘homeschooling’ is used – it is a matter of maintaining our distinctiveness. This piece from the Little Rock Homeschooling Examiner fumbles around with ‘homeschooling.’ The Arkansas Virtual Academy, located in Little Rock, is accepting lottery applications for the 2010-2011 school year. ~~~ This...
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Home-schooling money divvied up

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According to the Quad City Times the compromise that divvies up money for Iowa’s public school Home School Assistance Programs works out well for all involved: An amendment attached to Senate File 2288 narrows some of the uses of taxpayer dollars for home-school assistance programs, while providing for certain clerical and office support, resource...
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Dangerous Precedents

News item: “A Philadelphia-area school official confronted a student with photographic evidence that he was doing bad things at home. She got her evidence by activating the webcam on the laptop in his house, a lawsuit claims. “Lower Merion School District officials are spying on students and their families inside their homes with Web...
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The Greatest Conflict of Homeschooling

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It’s the S-word again. This time from a survival and preparedness site: Homeschooling socialization is by far the most major conflict in relation to homeschooling. The problem is that, by removing your children from the public school environment, you are depriving them of the social development offered by public schools. After all, it would...
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Year-Round School

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A Sunday WA Post article suggests, for best results, modify the traditional school calendar and do away with summer vacations. The author argues kids love it. Far from grousing about missing out on the months-long summer break that will start in a few weeks, my kids love year-round school. My daughter had no idea...
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Public School Programs are not Homeschooling

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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Protecting our Privacy

Peggy Daly Masternak, a long time homeschool activist recently sent along an article, Public school students’ data available to anybody from the Toledo Blade by By IGNAZIO MESSINA/ It starts out by saying that: If your children are in a public school, their names, addresses, phone numbers, and grade levels are all on a...
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County mayor requests Library homeschool program to be pulled

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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