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Comparing Homeschooled to Public Schooled

I ran across a blog post today that gave a favorable report based on a comparison of homeschooled kids to public schooled kids. Considering the positive nature of the post, I have to say the responses caught me off guard. Readers were annoyed that homeschooled children were compared to public schooled kids. I quote: Didn’t we just have a reeeaallly lengthy conversation about the importance of not doing this sort of thing? 😉 You know, not judging kids by arbitrary standards that we never accepted as valid in the first place? That kind of thing? While I do understand the … Continue reading →

Purely Homeschooling

Yesterday I wrote about the costs of homeschooling for frugal, median range, and high-end homeschoolers. Some of these options can be considered extreme by some homeschoolers as the options venture away from homeschooling in its purest form. Homeschooling, simply put is home education. For the original homeschoolers in the 1980’s and 1990’s, homeschooling meant a parent teaches the children at home. As homeschooling became popular, however, online schools, and local classes began to dilute the original or purist homeschooling methods. In an effort to keep the meaning of homeschooling pure, these original homeschoolers insist that the newer and hybrid forms … Continue reading →

Our New School

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In a previous blog, I wrote that we had given up on the public school near us because we could not get services that our boys needed and because there was an underlying racial bias there. That left us with two choices: home school or private school. At the time, we felt like homeschool was our only viable option because of the cost of private school. Homeschool was a wonderful experience. It gave Nancy time to do really basic bonding with the oldest three. Nancy does not have a teaching degree because we decided to get married during her junior … Continue reading →

Four Roadblocks to Learning

Is your child struggling with school? Does he or she seem to be drowning in work without making much progress? Sometimes the real cause of a child’s failure to thrive academically is simply the teaching methods employed at school. Here are four “roadblocks” which can interfere with a child’s ability to learn effectively. As you analyze your child’s progress, watch for these barriers: 1. World of Worksheets. Chances are, if you examine an average classroom at a random time of the day, you’ll see children sitting at desks completing worksheets. Worksheets seem to come tumbling down from the ceiling, filling … Continue reading →

Yoga in Public School

My parents are British and I have spent a lot of time in England over the years. I have British cousins and I have often compared life in Britain to life here in the States. I like large portions of both and while I am indisputably American, I hold a great deal of respect for our British cousins and in my case, ancestry. A recent news piece from England discusses that in schools in the United Kingdom have a plan to introduce yoga and dance classes for their 10 to 11 year olds. The idea is to combat obesity and … Continue reading →