Home schooling parents are usually better educated than the norm, and are more likely to attend worship services. Their motives are many and varied. Some fear contagion from the anti-clericalism, coarse speech, suggestive behavior and hedonistic values that characterize secular schools. Others are concerned for their children’s safety. Some want their children to be challenged beyond the minimal competencies of the public schools. Concern for a theistic world view largely permeates the movement.
Indications are that home schooling is working well for the kids, and the parents are pleased with their choice, but the practice is coming under increasing suspicion, and even official attack, as in California.
Why do we hate (or at least distrust) these people so much?
Methinks American middle-class people are uncomfortable around the home schooled for the same reason the alcoholic is uneasy around the teetotaler.
Their very existence represents a rejection of our values, and an indictment of our lifestyles. Those families are willing to render unto Caesar the things that Caesar’s be, but they draw the line at their children. Those of us who have put our trust in the secular state (and effectively surrendered our children to it) recognize this act of defiance as a rejection of our values, and we reject them in return
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MonkeyNotes-Free Book Notes Summary-The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Study guide for Scarlet Letter
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Homeschool Portfolio, Recordkeeping, and Grades by Cindy Downes - Oklahoma Homeschool
A helpful list of things to include in a portfolio.
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Folklore, Myth and Legend
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Online Spelling Program - SpellingCity.com
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Sarah Palin Plans to Homeschool | The Homeschool Blog Awards
The Palin's plan to homeschool as well!
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From the Trenches of Public Ed.: The American History Required Knowledge Test
What every American History Student should know.
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My Domestic Church: Medical Transcription and the Homeschooling Mom
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A Brave Writer’s Life in Brief » Blog Archive » Can we quit talking about curriculum?
The best curriculum does not a good homeschool make!
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Frugal Homeschooling: Free Homeschooling Lapbooks
A nice piece from the Carnival of Homeschooling on lap books. I particularly enjoyed the mutiplication lapbook, although I don't think my boys would like it. Izzy would though!
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The Literature Page - Read classic books by famous authors online
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Lincoln Bicentennial | 1809-2009 | Live the Legacy
Wonderful website in preparation of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth!
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Serendipity
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Why homeschooling continues to be under attack.
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Plan a Homeschooling Graduation: Homeschool Support Groups Can Offer a Graduation Ceremony for Teens
Some ideas for a homeschool graduation.
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Suze Orman on Credit Card Debt and College Tuition
Suze Orman giving advice that I have NEVER heard from an expert! But I think it is good advice nonetheless.
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The Thomas Jefferson Papers - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
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My Domestic Church: 10 Things I Have Learned about Homeschooling
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Footprints on the Fridge: I've Found the Cure
One mom's attempt to get organized for the year!
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