Posts Tagged ‘ public school ’

Education choice disadvantages

More buzz. The Disadvantages of Home Schooling, Parenting Ideas .org “Home Schooling ? Look Before You Leap” To return the favor of the blog author’s concern about homeschooling, I rewrote the article. I’m sure we want all parents to thoughtfully consider the education choices they make for their children. The Disadvantages of Public Schooling...
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Responding to ‘A Look at Homeschooling & Education Choice

There is a link to Terri W.’s essay at her HS Empowerment ring, A Look at Homeschooling & Education Choice that can be accessed under Homeschool Hot Buttons. I would like to take this opportunity to respond to some of Terri’s statements to set the record straight once and for all. For the sake...
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How’s that working out?

Dr. Phil’s Simple Questions Can Open People’s Minds, 27 July 2007, Free Market News Network, Pompano Beach, Florida Government-run public schools. “We’ve doubled the number of dollars spent on each child during the last 12 years,” beams the politician. “But we have so much more to do.” “You’ve doubled spending for each school child...
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“Two of a kind”?

That was part of the headline to a Northwest Herald article in McHenry County, Illinois about 2 new school board members, who are also homeschoolers. While the common link is ‘homeschool’, that very word expresses to me and many others that every family lives their own homeschooling lifestyle in their own uniquely fashioned way....
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The accountablity that comes with a charter school…..

The May 19, 2007 online Wisconsin Paper, the Post-Crescent, recently wrote that there are “Two charter schools up for renewal” in an article By Kathy Walsh Nufer, Post-Crescent staff writer. The article reports changes in a contract between The Wisconsin Connections Academy and the Appleton Area School District. The report describes the school as...
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Another branch of the Jefferson County Virtual School…..

Some of you may recall that the Ohio Jefferson County Educational Service Center entered the virtual school business a few years back, providing online curricula for school districts and for other curriculum providers. Home Educators were and remain a part of the target market for these programs. The January-February 2003 Journal of the Appalachian...
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People writing for advice about the child of friends?

I’ve heard the phrase “it takes a village to raise a child,” but I didn’t realize that this included friends writing to newspaper columnists for advice on behalf of parents. Newark Star Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, 9 January 2007, Teen has lost interest in attending school My friends have two daughters, 15 and 11...
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Servile?

Servile, was one of the adjectives thrown out, among several others in a diatribe by a homeschooling freedom opponent. Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a PBS program that I’ve enjoyed in the past, has a cover story this week called Homeschooling Movement. As I’m listening, I’m not as optimistic as I’d like to be when...
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Public schooling? Radical?

This Oklahoma article isn’t about homeschooling, but it popped it up in my Google alerts. I figure if they don’t want it associated with homeschooling, the word won’t be mentioned. The tidbit that caught my eye in this article about public participation in government was: Midwest City Sun, Midwest City, Oklahoma, 18 December 2006,...
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Homeschoolers and Sports

I’m still on the fence about the participation by homeschooled kids on public school sports teams, but they’re in the news, so they get included. This first article from Arizona has a good mix of the pluses and minuses of public school sports participation by homeschooled kids. Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, 15 October 2005,...
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