Posts Tagged ‘ Socialization ’

Stop Stereotyping the Kids

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Thirteen year-old Sarah Prater has her “web Letter” published: I think people need to know more about home schooling because of the unfounded stereotypes that seem to label every child who is home-schooled. While some people do home school primarily because of their beliefs, special needs children or other reasons, it does not mean...
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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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Online Learning and Homeschooling

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The title and subtitle tells us what the article is about. Online High Schools Test Students’ Social Skills As Digital Learning Programs Grow, Educators Hope to Prevent Teens From Feeling Isolated Online high schools are growing more popular. Roughly 100,000 of the 12 million high-school-age students in the U.S. attend 438 online schools full-time,...
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Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’

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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston. A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling...
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Home-schoolers embrace Free Minds

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Encouraging to read this piece about homeschooling in PA. Home-schooling is not about staying at home, a misperception that makes many home-school parents roll their eyes. In fact, home-schooled children are usually out exploring the community, or attending classes designed for home-schoolers at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, the zoo, libraries...
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Homeschooling “not a matter of money”

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Choice to homeschool children not a matter of money, experts say Bloomington Pantagraph By Phyllis Coulter “I personally don’t know anyone who home-schools — or not — based on the economy,” said Shelly Nelson, coordinator of a homeschooling network in McLean County. “The economy plays little or no part in the decision to homeschool.”...
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Is this an example of the vaunted school socialization?

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I try not to pick on schools, but with the almost constant inclusion of ‘the s-word’ in most mainstream articles about homeschooling, I am amazed at the seemingly willful blindness of what I’ve heard (with my ears) referred to as ‘knocking the corners off’ kids, ie, socialization in school.  Homeschoolers are asked whether their children...
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Too busy to homeschool

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I wonder if the perpetually disgruntled would think Joanna needs to go to school for socialization? ‘Les Miz’ star bitten early by stage bug: Marblehead girl is Cosette, 4 November 2007, Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts Instead of returning to Marblehead Community Charter School this fall, 11-year-old Joanna Rosen chose to be home-schooled so she...
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Colorado articles on homeschooling

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I’ve added a category for the ‘homeschooling can be hazardous to your health’ type of article. I’ve called it “Don’t try this at home.” The snips from the following articles ran on so much, that I was in danger of glaringly violating copyright. Because of that, I’ve just added some comments. Parents learning to...
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Homeschooling gains popularity in Australia …

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… but the poor children still miss out on ‘.’ School’s in at home as more parents opt out, 4 September 2007, The West Australian, Perth, Australia Home schooling is gaining popularity among Perth parents, with new figures revealing an increase of nearly 20 per cent in the number of children being taught at...
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