Homeschooling

Here are some interesting perspectives:

A World Without Public Schools: If the consensus underlying American public education has disappeared, why shouldn’t the institution? The Weekly Standard — David Geletmer argues for what critics of school choice have long accused proponents of secretly desiring.

Why not liberate all the vast resources we spend on […]

Great stuff. Tall order to handle Christopher Hitchens, but Douglas Wilson does it: You write like a witty but acerbic tenth-century archbishop with a bad case of the gout. But this is truly an odd thing to do if "morality" is a simple derivative of evolution. Are you filled with fierce indignation that the […]

Amen to this! (hat tip: Steffens and Stuart Buck)  Well, sort of. I remember a Bible class recently that was filled with talk about how we need to understand that adolescence is extending beyond the teen years into the mid-20s.  No doubt we do need to understand these trends, but there seemed to be […]

I find this article interesting in a couple of different ways. A private school in Rhode Island has decided that talking will not be allowed in the cafeteria at lunchtime. Their reasoning is that there have been recent choking incidents and teachers cannot hear a child in distress if the lunchroom is loud.

First, […]

My latest vice is checking Pete’s Pond, a live wildlife cam in Botswana, throughout the day to see if I can spot any wildlife.

“That doesn’t sound so bad.” you say. But it is. You see, I can’t look away. I can’t drag myself away from the computer because there’s […]

I’d like to share a book that we discovered about a year after 9/11/01 called Fireboat. It’s the true story of an old fireboat commissioned in 1931. It saw the construction of the George Washington Bridge and Empire State Building. By 2001 it was very old and was destined for the scrapyard. But on 9/11 […]

Hanging out in homeschooling forums can sometimes cause you to run across links completely unrelated to homeschooling, but laugh out loud funny. Mrs. Extremist ran across this link recently. At first glance, I couldn’t figure out why she sent me something about old Weight Watchers recipe cards. If you take the […]

On my way out of town before the Christmas break, I exchanged several emails with friend of mine about the Pennsylvania court case on teaching intelligent design in public schools. He and I have previously debated which has a more corrosive effect on young children, exposure to explicit depictions of violence or explicit […]

I’ve taken a day off of work today. The federal government is opening two hours late due to the snow.

We’re going with the kids and a group from our homeschool co-op to see the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I’ll report back later with reactions to the film.

There are dozens of positive reasons to homeschool. The student/teacher ratio can’t be beat, and no other teacher will ever know or care for a child the way a parent does. Whenever someone learns that we homeschool, the first reaction is inevitably “What about socialization?” It happens so often, that most homeschoolers […]