http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/homeschool/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:19:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050636/posts Free Republic Homeschool Forum 2008-2009A spot for homeschoolers on Free Republic to share information Once again, we are reviving our Free Republic Homeschool Forum where homeschoolers can share tips and talk about curriculum for the upcoming year. Below is a list of educational books, curricula, and other resources recommended by homeschoolers on Free Republic. This list was compiled, updated, and reformatted using the suggestions many of you gave on our last thread. (If any corrections are needed, please advise.) Feel free to add more of your favorite books and products to the comments below. Which curriculum has worked well for... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050636/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:19:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047463/posts This article is about parents who are teaching traditional math at home on the sly to their children. The previous article was pulled. Perhaps it was due to quoting Fox. I hope this thread is not pulled, the topic deserves discussion. Wintertime http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047463/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:28:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045271/posts case which threatened homeschooling in California earlier this year because parents supposedly weren't "legally qualified" to teach their children has essentially been rendered moot. Dakota Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045271/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:26:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044601/posts When it comes to getting a good education, apparently, there's no place like home. When homeschooling first came into prominence in the late 1980’s many viewed it with skepticism, but it has proved itself over and over the past two decades. Whether the average homeschooled student is getting as good an education as the average public school student is no longer a question. The verdict is in. The results of numerous studies show the average homeschooler is receiving a better education than the average public or private school student. In a 1997 study, Strengths of Their Own, Dr. Brian Ray... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044601/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:05:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044726/posts After catching flak from homeschoolers over explicitly excluding them from its student story contest earlier this year, the Subway restaurant chain has now purchased banner advertisements on the website for Homeschooling Today magazine, touting its new "summer special" story competition. This new contest, named "Every Sandwich Tells a Story," carries the same name and prizes as the previous competition, but this time the contest is open to all students up to sixth grade, including homeschoolers. A screen capture that includes the banner advertisement can be seen below: In a general email sent by Jim Bob Howard, editor-in-chief of Homeschooling Today,... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044726/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:51:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044516/posts A high school senior from Georgia won the National Right to Life oratory competition this past weekend, emphasizing in his speech how abortion “is but a branch to the Post Modernist root.” “They cannot say that an unborn child is or is not a person, because hey, it’s all relative. It may be a human to you, but not to me,” Blake Adams from Powder Springs, Ga., expressed in his entry titled “Truth.” Before winning the national competition Saturday evening in Washington, Blake had won his district competition in Cobb County, the Georgia state competition, and the preliminaries at... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044516/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044555/posts When it comes to getting a good education, apparently, there's no place like home. When homeschooling first came into prominence in the late 1980’s many viewed it with skepticism, but it has proved itself over and over the past two decades. Whether the average homeschooled student is getting as good an education as the average public school student is no longer a question. The verdict is in. The results of numerous studies show the average homeschooler is receiving a better education than the average public or private school student. In a 1997 study, Strengths of Their Own, Dr. Brian Ray... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044555/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:33:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044344/posts A judge in California has ended juvenile court jurisdiction over two children in a family case that prompted an appeals court at one point to declare that parents had no right to homeschool their children in the state. The opinion in the Rachel L. case when WND broke the story in February rocked the foundations of homeschooling in the state and across the nation, because of its implications that without such rights, parents could be liable for civil and criminal penalties simply for teaching their own children at home. It especially outraged those who opposed California's mandated advocacy for homosexual... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044344/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:55:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044094/posts Last night, Mr. L’s attorney in the juvenile court reported to Home School Legal Defense Association that the juvenile court judge terminated jurisdiction over the two youngest L children in a hearing held on July 10, 2008. Mr. L is represented by Gary Kreep, who is the director of the California-based United States Justice Foundation, which has long been a close ally of HSLDA and homeschoolers in California. Two years ago, the children’s court-appointed lawyers had asked that the two children be ordered to attend a school outside the home. That request became the basis for the court’s February ruling... HSLDA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044094/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:40:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041315/posts Irate parents said a religious education teacher at the Alsager High School in England told students to wear Muslim headgear during a lesson on Tuesday. "But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion, there would be war," the grandfather of one of the students said. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041315/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:00:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037340/posts Eleanor Holmes Norton is hoping to save nearly 2,000 city students from the dreaded federal voucher program that allows them to attend well-functioning private schools in a safe and nurturing environment. Mrs. Norton vehemently opposes the voucher program because of its imposition on the District´s public schools, which, of course, perform at levels of bad and worse. Mrs. Norton and the like-minded in the Democrat-controlled Congress want to end the $18 million program because it works, is a big hit with the parents of disadvantaged students and provides low-income families with a choice. Some of the testimonials of the parents... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037340/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:52:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036121/posts On Wednesday, June 18, a district court in the German state of Hesse sentenced Jurgen and Rosemary Dudek each to three months in prison simply because they homeschool their seven children. HSLDA condemns this court ruling in the strongest possible terms. Good parents who love and care for their children should never be sentenced to prison for doing what is best for their children. Germany is a Western nation and should know better. HSLDA will be helping the Dudeks with their appeals, but German courts have so far consistently ruled against homeschoolers. More information will be forthcoming as this story... HSLDA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036121/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:48:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033032/posts We brought attention to the difficult climate for homeschooling in Germany in this column in March 2007. We shared the trials and tribulations of the Busekros family, whose 15-year-old daughter was forcibly removed from their home because she was being homeschooled. Melissa was placed in the psychiatric wing of a Bavarian clinic and was deemed to be suffering from “school-phobia.” There is good news to report on behalf of the Busekros family. When she turned 16, Melissa walked away from the clinic and returned home. Bavarian officials did not consent to her leaving, but because she had reached the age... The Washington Times/Homeschool Legal Defense Association http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033032/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:17:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032741/posts Political correctness portrays untamed America before European invasion as a natural paradise, where Indians maintained an exquisite ecological balance, living in a harmonious, idyllic relationship to the natural world. According to conventional wisdom, this pre-Columbian Eden flourished for peaceful millenia until brutal disuprtion by thoughtless, menacing and mercenary white colonists. Stewart Udall, one-time Arizona Congressman and later Secretary of the Interior for President Kennedy, became an early advocate of this point of view in his influential 1973 article, “Indians: First Americans, First Ecologists,” urging modern citizens to follow the native example of treating the landscape with love and respect. Udall’s... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032741/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:29:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028047/posts A textbook monitoring group said that Maryland middle and high school students will be required to read about Islamic teachings that have been dumbed down and are products of political correctness. According to the New York Examiner, a new report issued by the American Textbook Council said that administrators who approved books for use in the Montgomery County school district caved into pressure by pro-Islamic groups seeking to present a less violent interpretation of Islam. Gilbert Sewall, director of the council, stated that, for example, the definition of jihad has gone through "amazing cultural reorchestration" in textbooks, losing any connotation... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028047/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:23:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027133/posts The response of California's teachers' union to pro-family attempts to protect home schooling in that state has outraged one attorney who is working on the case. Numerous organizations on both sides of the issue have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the appeal of a California court's ruling that parents have no right to home school their children. But one reaction in particular caught the attention of pro-family attorney Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute. "The California Teachers Association ... decided to file an amicus brief arguing before the court that parents should have no right over the education of... Onenewsnow / Family News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027133/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:29:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026081/posts Should parents need teaching credentials to home-school their kids? Parade Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026081/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023604/posts ...On May 29, 2008 the Worcester Telegram & Gazette published a story concerning a ten year boy who was immediately suspended when a school employee found him with a spent blank shell. According to the story entitled "Souvenir Rifle Shell Gets 4th Grader Suspended" the young man was given two of the spent casings by a uniformed veteran after a Memorial Day event. "This is a tragic example of how far over the edge this state and our schools have gone. For the school officials to react in such a manner is simply inexcusable," said Jim Wallace Executive Director of... Gun Owners Action League http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023604/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 17:21:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022747/posts Subway apologizes for homeschool snub. HSLDA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022747/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 01:41:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022129/posts Subway -- the multi-national fast-food sub-shop giant -- has shot themselves in the foot. Again. The goal of their latest promotion was to win the loyalty of parents of grade school-aged kids -- to increase market share, revenue and profits. It was supposed to be a simple exercise in business marketing and promotion. American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022129/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 22:43:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020985/posts Subway sandwich contest: Homeschoolers not wanted Spelling-challenged promotion offers gift 'bastket' to winners Posted: May 24, 20087:00 pm Eastern By Jay Baggett © 2008 WorldNetDaily Subway, the sandwich restaurant, wants to hear your child's story – unless he or she is homeschooled.The national chain's "Every Sandwich Tells a Story Contest" offers prizes and a chance to be published on the Subway website and in Scholastic's "Parent & Child" magazine but specifically excludes homeschoolers: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied (sic) States who are currently over the age of 18 and... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020985/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 11:43:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020766/posts Subway's online contest excludes homeschoolers. Prizes include a "Scholastic Gift Bastket (sic) for your home. Apparently Subway is a supporter of the teacher's unions and a victim of the public school system. Comments can be made at: http://www.subway.com/Applications/CustService/frmCustomerService.aspx http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020766/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 17:45:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019135/posts It’s true. The State of Tennessee has officially declared that from this point forward it will accept only less educated student applicants for state, county and city jobs in the Volunteer State. Why would the kindly folks in Nashville make such a stupid rule? Well, it’s all about control, you see. The state controls the less educated kids and they don’t control the ones that show higher academic aptitude. It really is just that simple. It has come to pass that the State of Tennessee has officially invalidated the high school diplomas of thousands of home-schooled Tennessee kids, at least... stoptheaclu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019135/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 14:29:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018175/posts It's springtime, and all God's creatures are ready for mating, but psychobabble killjoys are warning: Don't have kids. They'll make you miserable, and you'll deserve taxation for environmental abuse. On May 8, just as the songbirds were readying nests for their offspring, a Harvard professor tried to put a damper on the joys of human procreation by declaring that having children strips happiness from their parents. Professor Daniel Gilbert announced to the Happiness and its Causes conference in Sydney, Australia, that with each child the barometer of happiness plummets. WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018175/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 17:42:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017802/posts DOWNEY, Calif. - With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music. But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don't quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor. "I'm studying statistics," says the alternately precocious and shy Cavalin, his textbook lying open on the living room desk of his parents' apartment in this quiet suburb east of Los Angeles. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017802/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 22:05:27 GMT