Posts Tagged ‘ Socialization ’

My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists

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The venerable New York Times Magazine published an article on November 8, 2011 titled My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists, by Margaret Heidenry: “Tired of the constraints of the 40-hour workweek, my father, in 1972, quit his job in publishing. My parents were in their early 30s, and they had four children under 7. ‘But...
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Baltimore, MD Homeschool Article

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Too Cool For Homeschool? (Here’s what you didn’t know), by Melanie O’Brien, shares the activities of families involved with the Baltimore Homeschool Community Center, described as “…bright and friendly, full of laughing kids and smiling adults.” The member-based organization serves homeschooling families throughout the Baltimore area. O’Brien writes: “But wait a second. Why are...
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Sharing their School

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Susan Ryan shares a heart-warming story at her Corn and Oil blog about a homeschooling family who purchased a local school and are sharing it with their community: “When they heard about the sale of the school and its contents, Melanie and Gary Doyle thought they may end up purchasing school supplies for their...
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The Freedom to Homeschool

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The last of three articles on local homeschooling families is a positive, upbeat article from the Oct. 7th issue of the Dansville-Genesee Country Express in Dansville, NY, titled Homeschool Gives Choice to Students, Parents: The freedom to pursue what a parent deems best for their child is still allowed in America. That’s the feeling...
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Homeschooling & Public Schooling

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An interesting and enlightening article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, StLToday.com, titled Adventures in Public Schooling, Homeschooling, and Living in Both Worlds by Sharon Autenrieth: Twelve years ago my husband and I had dinner with friends. They were homeschooling their youngest child, then in fifth grade, and at some point in the evening...
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Reasons to Homeschool

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The Bandz are now contraband. Schools in several states, including New York, Texas, Florida and Massachusetts, have blacklisted Silly Bandz, those stretchy, colorful bracelets that are creeping up the forearms of school kids across the U.S. And starting this week, all 800-some kids at my son’s elementary school in Raleigh, N.C., were commanded to...
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Public School Better Than Homeschool?

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From Literacy News, which reports on literacy issues which affect the workplace and education systems, one of those countdown pieces subtitled ’10 reasons why public school is better than homeschool’ starts out with: 1. Most parents were educated in the under funded-public school system, and so are not smart enough to homeschool their own...
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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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Homeschooling to Escape Bullies

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Laura Brodie, author of Love in a Time of Homeschooling, and a blogger for Psychology Today, addressed the question of Bullying as a Reason for Homeschooling in a March 24 post and Mean Girls and Homeschooling Moms on March 31. A follow-up post today, Homeschooling to Escape Bullies: What’s Wrong with That? explores “the...
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Home is where your story begins

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From WNET’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly comes a story of homeschooling: Muslim Home Schooling FAW : Muslim parents say home schooling can provide a better learning experience because the work can be tailored to each child’s needs. Bilal, for example, who learned to read before he entered public school, got bored when...
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