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    Monday, May 21st, 2012 9:16 pm

    “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” Thucydides

    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus

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    “I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot
    do everything, but still I can do something.
    I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
    Helen Keller

    • Debunking Homeschooling Myths :-D

    | January 17, 2012

    FUNNY video! “Please take me with you!!”

    Been homeschooling since 1997 – don’t knock it until you’ve tried it! FREEDOM!!

    Messy Mondays: Seven Lies about Homeschoolers

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    Girls Only

    | December 31, 2011

    All-girl classes at university ‘lead to better grades’ with some saying they are more comfortable without boys in the classroom
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078976/Girls-significantly-better-classroom-single-sex-schools.html#ixzz1i8e1N2Yb

    I would say this is the case in school as well. Around here, they even have boys and girls taught sex education in the same room.

    Category: Public School, Sex Education | No Comments »
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    Twelve Days of Christmas: Homeschooling and Big Families

    | December 18, 2011

    Twelve Days of Homeschool

    And an oldie, but a goodie:
    The Twelve Days of a Large Family Christmas

    Hat Tip: http://mommylife.net/

    Category: Family Planning, Homeschooling Controversy, Music, Parenting Pregnancy, Public School | No Comments »
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    Public School Dances Banned Because of Kids Drunk or On Drugs

    | December 8, 2011

    Nova Scotia high school bans dances
    http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/08/nova-scotia-high-school-bans-dances

    “A high school in Sydney, N.S., has cancelled all school dances indefinitely after drunk and violent students got out of control.”

    “Sydney Academy is just the latest in a long list of Nova Scotia high schools to impose dance bans because of risks posed by rowdy teens…”

    “‘It really was scary,’ he said.”

    “A significant number of kids showed up either drunk or on drugs, he said, and fights broke out everywhere. One kid punched another in the face and broke his nose ‘for no apparent reason…’”

    “If we didn’t have cruisers there, that could have been very ugly.”

    “Some 25 to 30 of the 600 students at the dance were suspended and some even went home in the backs of police cars. Deveaux believes there were plenty more students under the influence who didn’t get busted.“

    “He said there were four police officers, six security guards and 15 to 20 chaperones at the dance ‘and it still wasn’t enough.’”

    “The crux of the problem, he believes, is twofold: Parents and society at large have become far too tolerant of underage drinking, and students don’t suffer any serious consequences for their actions…”

    Drinking, fighting prompt school dance ban
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/06/07/ns-sydney-dance-drinking.html

    No charges laid?

    Letting kids get away with illegal activity is not doing them any favors.

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    Changing Your Child’s Life: Where’s the Accountability?

    | December 6, 2011

    When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/when-an-adult-took-standardized-tests-forced-on-kids/2011/12/05/gIQApTDuUO_blog.html

    “‘The math section had 60 questions. I knew the answers to none of them, but managed to guess ten out of the 60 correctly. On the reading test, I got 62% . In our system, that’s a “D”, and would get me a mandatory assignment to a double block of reading instruction.’”

    “He continued, ‘It seems to me something is seriously wrong. I have a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate’.”

    “‘I help oversee an organization with 22,000 employees and a $3 billion operations and capital budget, and am able to make sense of complex data related to those responsibilities…’”

    “‘…A test that can determine a student’s future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life. I can’t see how that could possibly be true of the test I took…’”

    “Here’s the clincher in what he wrote:”

    “‘If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I’d have been told I wasn’t ‘college material,’ would probably have believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had.’”

    “‘It makes no sense to me that a test with the potential for shaping a student’s entire future has so little apparent relevance to adult, real-world functioning. Who decided the kind of questions and their level of difficulty? Using what criteria? To whom did they have to defend their decisions? As subject-matter specialists, how qualified were they to make general judgments about the needs of this state’s children in a future they can’t possibly predict? Who set the pass-fail “cut score”? How?’”

    “I can’t escape the conclusion that decisions about the [state test] in particular and standardized tests in general are being made by individuals who lack perspective and aren’t really accountable.”

    “There you have it. A concise summary of what’s wrong with present corporately driven education change: Decisions are being made by individuals who lack perspective and aren’t really accountable.”

    “Those decisions are shaped not by knowledge or understanding of educating, but by ideology, politics, hubris, greed, ignorance, the conventional wisdom, and various combinations thereof. And then they’re sold to the public by the rich and powerful.”

    “All that without so much as a pilot program to see if their simplistic, worn-out ideas work, and without a single procedure in place that imposes on them what they demand of teachers: accountability.”

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    Doesn’t Just Affect Your Heart

    | December 6, 2011

    Teen Sex May Affect Brain Development, Study Suggests
    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/12/02/teen-sex-may-affect-brain-development-study-suggests/

    “Specifically, the animals that mated earlier in life had higher levels of depressive behaviors, changes to the brain and smaller reproductive tissues compared to those that had intercourse later or not at all.”

    “Having a sexual experience during this time point, early in life, is not without consequence…”

    Category: Family Planning, Public School, Sex Education | No Comments »
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    | December 5, 2011

    I think two of the biggest shames of schooling-outside-the-home are the separation of siblings and the extreme reduction of playtime.

    Category: Homeschooling Activities, Public School, Status Updates | No Comments »
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    Sex Education Moves to Grade Three

    | November 26, 2011

    Don’t confuse me

    http://www.canadianvalues.ca/SCC/index.html

    Category: Christianity, Public School, Sex Education | No Comments »
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    “They’ll try to push drugs. Keep us all dumbed down and hope that we will never see the truth around.”

    | November 25, 2011

    Muse – Uprising (HQ)

    Uprising ~ Muse

    The paranoia is in bloom, the PR
    The transmissions will resume
    They’ll try to push drugs
    Keep us all dumbed down and hope that
    We will never see the truth around
    (So come on!)

    Another promise, another scene, another
    A package not to keep us trapped in greed
    With all the green belts wrapped around our minds

    And endless red tape to keep the truth confined
    (So come on!)

    They will not force us
    They will stop degrading us
    They will not control us
    We will be victorious

    Interchanging mind control
    Come let the revolution take its toll if you could
    Flick a switch and open your third eye, you’d see that
    We should never be afraid to die
    (So come on!)

    Rise up and take the power back, it’s time that
    The fat cats had a heart attack, you know that
    Their time is coming to an end
    We have to unify and watch our flag ascend

    They will not force us
    They will stop degrading us
    They will not control us
    We will be victorious

    Hey .. hey … hey .. hey!
    Hey .. hey … hey .. hey!

    They will not force us
    They will stop degrading us
    They will not control us
    We will be victorious

    Hey .. hey … hey .. hey!
    Hey .. hey … hey .. hey!

    Category: Media Bias Exposed, Media Glenn Beck, Music, Politics, Public School | No Comments »
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    Of Course Public Schooling Is a Socialist Idea

    | November 8, 2011

    Ron Paul: Elizabeth Warren is ‘a Socialist,‘ Public Schooling is ’a Socialist Idea’
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ron-paul-elizabeth-warren-is-a-socialist-public-schooling-is-a-socialist-idea/

    “When asked about Warren’s comments on public education and whether public schooling is socialism, Rep. Paul said ‘In a way. When the state runs things, that is you know, a socialist idea, that it should be collective. I preach homeschooling and private schooling and competition in school.’”

    Category: Homeschooling Controversy, Politics Ron Paul, Public School | No Comments »
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