Homeschooling
Category archives for Homeschooling
Homeschoolers and public libraries
Posted by Greg Laden on May 23, 2008 Should (or would?) home schooling families pay a small fee for public library access? The Allen County Public Library has changed the number of holds available to patrons to five per card. … The library is a support system to our at-home curriculum. … The usage of the library hold system to find and retrieve…
Homeschooling Tidbits
Posted by Greg Laden on May 19, 2008 Homeschooling is an important phenomenon. It is growing in the US and a few other places. Some forms of homeschooling are linked with political, social, or religious movements. For instance, some people homeschool because they want their children raised in a certain religious setting and to have minimal contact with the rest of society. Other…
Is a progressive homeschooling mother a walking oxymoron?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 5, 2008 … This is one of several interesting questions being asked by Bitch writer Maya Schenwar in: Learning Curve … Radical “unschooling” moms are changing the stay-at-home landscape. From the article:
Carnival of the Skittish Homeschoolers
Posted by Greg Laden on May 2, 2008 Boo! … That scurrying sound you hear is the pitter-patter of libertarian homeschoolers running to their battle stations. These are the people who make home schooling … which isn’t such a bad idea in some cases … a bad idea. All the time.
The Homeschooler Mind Set
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2008 Home schooling is probably a really good idea for a lot of people, but only for a certain (unknown) percentage of people who actually do it. And, among those who do manage to home school, I would guess that the effectiveness of home schooling varies from pretty good to dismal because homeschoolers are doing it…
Homeschooling May Be the Better Choice …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 10, 2008 … if you live in Baltimore … Details and a poll for you to take:
I Never Liked John Stossel, and Now I Know Why
Posted by Greg Laden on April 10, 2008 John Stossel is the woo-loving moronic co-host of the formerly not too bad but these days totally sucky tv “news” show 20-20. It turns out Stossel is a libertarian home schooling supporter and reality denialist
Do Recent Home Schooling Bills Threaten Home Schooler’s Freedoms?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 10, 2008 Yes, and it probably should. The bill requires that the home schooled students receive instruction from qualified individuals, and that the students be registered with the state. Both are reasonable requirements for any educational program, home schooling or otherwise. But this is considered unacceptable by many homeschooling proponents (but not all). I found an interesting…
Why Should You Home School Your Children?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 2, 2008 I came across this chilling misanthropic missive in support of home schooling.
Home Schooling in California
Posted by Greg Laden on March 27, 2008 A California appellate court agreed Wednesday to rehear arguments in a controversial case that called into question the legality of home schooling, court documents show. A statewide uproar began when a panel with the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in last month that there is no constitutional right to home school children. The ruling…
New Homeschool History Text
Posted by Greg Laden on March 26, 2008 Anne Coulter sends me emails now and then (she doesn’t know who I am … don’t tell her) so I get the inside anorexia, I mean, the inside skinny on some of the moves the hard right wing are making now and then. Astonishingly, very little of this is ever of any interest. But the…
Biblically Correct Tours for Home Schoolers
Posted by Greg Laden on March 25, 2008 You’ve probably already seen this: it is a bunch of crazy home schooling creationists demonstrating that they are utter, incurable morons. In this video, they are seen committing child abuse. Again and again and again. I stole it from Pharangula, he stole it from Sandwalk. DO YOU REALLY WANT TO APPEASE THESE PEOPLE, PEOPLE?????? Chris…
Political manderings
Posted by Greg Laden on March 19, 2008 The fight continues in Texas; Homophobia is a punishable offense, yet legislators march on in opposition to the already underway 21st century; Some guy named Stephen on homeschooling.
Home Schooling in California: A spontaneous blog carnival
Posted by Greg Laden on March 12, 2008 … well, just a little carnival. More like a street fair. On a small side street:
Serious Matter of Home Schooling
Posted by Greg Laden on March 11, 2008 OMG! A three-judge panel from the 2nd District Court of Appeals made it illegal on February 28 for any parent to home school their child, unless they have a teaching or tutor credential. Upon hearing the ruling, school districts officials began demanding that police take immediate action. So yesterday, throughout the state, judges secretly began…
Home schooling restricted by court in California
Posted by Greg Laden on March 6, 2008 May any parent legally homeschool children in California? Last week, a state appellate court said no. A unanimous three-judge panel ruled that California law lays down specific circumstances under which homeschooling is permitted, and not all parents meet the requirements. [source]
Utne Blogs Har Mar Home School Creationist Science Fair
Posted by Greg Laden on February 27, 2008 Bennett Gordon has a post on the Har Mar Science Fair: …Every diorama in the Home School Science Fair, which took place inside a shopping mall in Roseville, Minnesota, had a biblical quote attached to it. A young woman whose project involved teaching her dog how to run circles between her legs decorated the words:…
Creationist Home Schooler Science Fair
Posted by Greg Laden on February 17, 2008 The fair was this weekend. I was in the vicinity of Har Mar, but only briefly, and I did not have time to stop in this weekend. But The Lorax did, and he has blogged about it here. Here are a couple of my earlier posts on this event, including last years: Twin Cities Home…
A critique of home schooling
Posted by Greg Laden on February 14, 2008 Katie Criss has a post critiquing home schooling. When I asked myself the question, How do you feel about home schooling? I first thought “Why would anyone do that” So I researched exactly that, What are the reasons that people give of why they choose to homeschool and how valid are they. The analysis is…
Are Home Schooled Athletes Cheating?
Posted by Greg Laden on February 13, 2008 In a previous discussion on home schooling and athletics, this idea, surprisingly, did not come up: Some senators worry a bill that passed the Senate this morning might allow student to cheat their way into playing sports. The bill allows home schooled students to join public school sports teams and other exrtracirricular activities. But their…
Why Should You Home School Your Children?
Posted by Greg Laden on February 7, 2008 I came across this chilling misanthropic missive in support of home schooling.
K-12 Online Learning
Posted by Greg Laden on February 1, 2008 An increasingly large number of K through 12 students (in the tens of thousands or more) are getting some or all of their education on line. Typically, the on line resources are provided by private corporate vendors contracting to individuals or in some cases school districts, and the target audience tends to be middle school…
Wife Swap and Home Schooling
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2008 You may not want to miss this (Feb 13th) episode of Wife Swap:
HURRY UP! Home School Science Fair Deadline Is Almost Here!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on January 28, 2008 The Twin Cities Creation Science Association Home School Science Fair, held each year in February, in Har Mar Mall, Roseville, Minnesota, will occur this year on Saturday & Sunday, February 16 and 17, 2008. The Application Deadline is January 31st, 2008 ($5.00 entry fee) You can register after January 31st at the door for only…
Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair Photos
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 This is a repost of an item from my old blog. The Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair at Har Mar Mall in Roseville, Minnesota happened last month. The organization that (at least partly) sponsors this event (Twin Cities Creation Science) usually posts photographs of the science fair, but this year they got into…
If you are eating or driking something now, don’t read this.
Posted by Greg Laden on January 26, 2008 I’m serious. You can’t see this post until you put down your coffee and make sure your airways are clear. Then you can click on the heading and laugh, and cry, and everything…
The Beagle Project: Endorsed by a pantheon of Science Bloggers…
Posted by Greg Laden on January 22, 2008 You are going to be hearing a lot more about Darwin in the month of February, which is Darwin Month here on The Internet. (It is also Creationist Home Schooling Science Fair month, so hang on to your mice and keyboards!!!!) I have a Darwin plan of my own that you will be learning of…
Racy new novel with Homeschooling Theme
Posted by Greg Laden on January 20, 2008 Home School A big chunk of the reading world is going to have a great time devouring a Home School, new semi erotic, not-very-family values novel by the very author that gave us The Graduate (which was made into that movie with Dustin Hoffman … one of the classics). This is ironic, because the book’s…
The Home Schooling Attitude: Part 1 of 1
Posted by Greg Laden on January 19, 2008 This is Part 1 because there is more than one part. But I’m only going to do one of them, so it is Part 1 of 1. There is more than one “kind” of home schooler, home schooling parent, home schooling family, etc., and thus there are multiple attitudes. But a good chunk of the…
Science Fair Season Starts
Posted by Greg Laden on January 13, 2008 It is science fair season! Elmer’s Inc is cranking out the three-part display boards, Office Max is stocking up on its colored paper and glue sticks, and thousands upon thousands of kids are working out the fine details of the hypothesis they want to test using an experiment that can be demonstrated in the Science…
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