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    Proverbs 17:22

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    • Homeschooling and Socialism Don’t Mix

    carol | March 13, 2010

    Homeschooling to be Criminalized in Sweden
    Will be permitted only under “extraordinary circumstances.”
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10031209.html

    Category: Homeschooling Controversy, Politics | No Comments »
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    Glenn Beck on Indoctrinating Children

    carol | March 5, 2010

    GBS – March 05, 2010

    Category: Homeschooling Controversy, Media Bias Exposed, Media Glenn Beck, Politics Barack Obama, Public School | 1 Comment »
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    “Leave them kids alone”

    carol | February 10, 2010

    Want Passionate Kids? Leave ‘em Alone
    http://www.livescience.com/culture/children-passions-autonomy-100209.html

    Category: Freedom, Homeschooling Controversy, Parenting General | No Comments »
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    Economics 101 and School Choice

    carol | February 9, 2010

    Economics 101: School Choice Example Shows Why Government Monopolies Are Bad

    Category: Homeschooling Controversy, Public School | 1 Comment »
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    “Montgomery County couple has been arrested on child endangerment charges for failing to register their children with the school district as they were home-schooled.”

    carol | January 5, 2010

    Parents arrested for failing to register home-schooled kids
    http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/district-1269895-school-county.html

    Category: Homeschooling Controversy | No Comments »
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    Life is too short. Homeschool.

    carol | December 31, 2009

    Category: Homeschooling Controversy | 2 Comments »
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    Minor Incidents

    carol | December 31, 2009

    Quoting the boy, in the movie, About A Boy, “There were people out there who had a good time in life. I was beginning to realize, I wasn’t one of them. I just didn’t fit. I didn’t fit at my old school. I definitely didn’t fit at my new one. I heard that some kids got taught by their parents at home. But Mom couldn’t do that unless I paid her to teach me, because it was just her and me and she had to work… So basically, I had to go to school…”

    Badly Drawn Boy – A Minor Incident

    A Minor Incident

    There’s nothing I could say
    To make you try to feel ok
    And nothing you could do
    To stop me feeling the way I do
    And if the chance should happen
    That I never see you again
    Just remember that I’ll always love you

    I’d be a better person
    On the other side I’m sure
    You’d find a way to help yourself
    And find another door
    To shrug off minor incidents
    And make us both feel proud
    I just wish I could be there
    To see you through

    You always were the one
    To make us stand out in a crowd
    Though every once upon a while
    Your head was in the cloud
    There’s nothing you could never do
    To ever let me down
    And remember that I’ll always love you

    Category: Books, Movies, Television, Depression, Homeschooling Controversy, Music, Public School | No Comments »
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    “Students being monitored by public school teachers score 33 percentile points LOWER.”

    carol | December 23, 2009

    Superintendent Garrett Suggests “Monitoring” of Homeschoolers
    http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/il/200912140.asp

    “HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff recently wrote this letter to the editor of the Centralia Sentinel,” in reply to an article that suggested that the newspaper, “‘would like to see more monitoring of homeschooled students…’”

    “Presumably Garrett envisions that homeschooled students would be monitored by public school teachers. According to large-scale scientific studies, students being monitored by public school teachers (i.e., public school students) score at the 50th percentile, on average, on standardized tests. But homeschooled students score at the 83rd percentile. The remarkable scores of homeschooled students would need to come down 33 percentile points to equal the scores of students already being monitored by public school teachers…”

    Category: Homeschooling Academics, Homeschooling Controversy, Public School | No Comments »
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    Rock on homeschoolers! The future is bright! Astounding results from new study!

    carol | December 3, 2009

    Fifteen Years Later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults
    Synopsis
    http://www.hslda.ca/cche_research/2009StudySynopsis.pdf

    Fifteen Years Later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults
    Full study:
    http://www.hslda.ca/cche_research/2009Study.pdf

    Home Education in Canada: A Report on the Pan-Canadian Study on Home Education 2003
    Synopsis
    http://www.hslda.ca/cche_research/SummaryFinal.pdf

    Hat Tip:
    New Study: Home-Educated Canadian Adults Excel
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/dec/09120305.html

    “A new study released yesterday by the Canadian Centre for Home Education (CCHE) reveals that home-educated adults in Canada excel in all measured areas of adult life, including education level, religious observance, civic and community participation, life satisfaction, and income.”

    “The results were astounding…”

    “The study found that, when measured against the Canadian average, home-educated adults were more socially engaged and almost twice as likely to have voted in a federal election. Their average income was higher, with more self-reliant sources of income, such as investments and self-employment. In fact, of all respondents, there were no cases of government support as the primary source of income.”

    “The respondents were happier in their work and about their lives in general. They also have more varied recreational pursuits. The study notes, for example, that the respondents ‘were much more likely than the comparable population to have read books and attended concerts of classical music or theatrical performances.’ Overall, when reflecting on the value of being home-educated, most felt that it was an advantage in their adult life.”

    Category: Homeschooling Academics, Homeschooling Activities, Homeschooling Controversy, Public School | No Comments »
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    "The school starting age should be raised to six to help eradicate illiteracy."

    carol | November 6, 2009

    Second expert calls for school starting age to be raised to six
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225357/Second-expert-calls-school-starting-age-raised-six.html#ixzz0W59zw2YY

    “The school starting age should be raised to six to help eradicate illiteracy.”

    Related:
    http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/10/22/introducing-children-at-the-age-of-five-into-the-structure-and-discipline-of-a-classroom-could-even-be-harmful/

    But don’t they know? School isn’t about literacy. It’s about babysitting :-/ (and indoctrination *gasp*).

    Category: Homeschooling Academics, Homeschooling Controversy, Public School | No Comments »
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    "Child bound, gagged with duct tape at school"

    carol | October 25, 2009

    Video: Child bound, gagged with duct tape at school
    http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/25/video-child-bound-gagged-with-duct-tape-at-school/

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    Parents Want Suspension In Duct Tape Incident
    http://cbs4denver.com/local/Jennifer.Carter.Palmer.2.1267696.html

    Category: Homeschooling Controversy, Public School, Special Needs | 2 Comments »
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    "Introducing children at the age of five into the structure and discipline of a classroom could even be harmful."

    carol | October 22, 2009

    I agree with this study, especially because I have a 5-year-old that is my fourth child. He plays, plays, plays, and we do very little schooling yet.

    Cambridge Study Says 5-year-olds Too Young To Start School
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09102105.html

    “A study of primary education by Cambridge University recommends that formal schooling of children should begin at the age of six, a year later than the present norm in the UK…”

    “No evidence suggesting formal teaching environments benefited young children…”

    “Introducing children at the age of five into the structure and discipline of a classroom could even be harmful…”

    “‘If they are already failing by the age of four-and-a-half or five it’s going to be quite difficult to get them back into the system again. They are not going to learn to read, write and add up if you have alienated them,’ Pugh said.”

    “The report recommends that children up to the age of six should instead continue the more informal, play-based education typically found in nurseries…”

    “Other studies have found marked negative effects from the introduction of 3 to 5 year olds to formal schooling, including brain chemistry damage, aggression, negative social and emotional development, and illness.”

    Category: Homeschooling Academics, Homeschooling Activities, Homeschooling Controversy, Public School | 1 Comment »
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    "Time is not ours, but God's"

    carol | October 19, 2009

    The Domestic Monastery …
    http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/ron/ron_14domesticmonastery.html

    “For example, the mother who stays home with small children experiences a very real withdrawal from the world. Her existence is definitely monastic. Her tasks and preoccupations remove her from the centres of power and social importance. And she feels it. Moreover her sustained contact with young children (the mildest of the mild) gives her a privileged opportunity to be in harmony with the mild, that is, to attune herself to the powerlessness rather than to the powerful.”

    Category: Homemaking, Homeschooling Controversy, Parenting Stay-at-Home | No Comments »
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    Latest Vaccination News

    carol | October 18, 2009

    Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy Present Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Shocking Vaccine Cover Up:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Af0ar7gE4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ysbUM5jk54&NR=1

    “Why aren’t they [the press] asking CDC, why don’t you study the Amish? (like UPI did) Why don’t you study these homeschooled kids? 30000 homeschooled kids studied by the UPI and no autism in that group. They studied all the Amish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, there should be 130 autistic kids. There are four. And three of them were adopted after receiving their vaccines and the fourth one lived downwind of a… coal burning power plant. What we’ve got to stop doing is blaming the mothers, which is what they’ve done. These are not hysterical women.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    The Dr. Oz Bait for Vaccines: Why Did He Do It?
    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/13/Dr-Oz-Helps-Shill-the-Flu-Vaccine.aspx

    “He states that he’s been getting the seasonal flu vaccine every year for about ten years. But what you didn’t see in that clip was Dr. Oz stating that when it comes to the swine flu shot, neither his wife nor his four children will get the vaccine (although he will get that one too).”

    Category: Health, Homeschooling Controversy, Vaccination | No Comments »
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    "Does God Exist?"

    carol | October 13, 2009

    “Does God exist?” — Social campaign on education (TV commercial)

    Hat Tip: http://www.jillstanek.com/

    Category: Christianity, Homeschooling Academics, Homeschooling Controversy, Public School | 1 Comment »
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