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Homeschool is a How-To-Live Decision, Not a How-To-Learn Decision |
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Penelope Trunk |
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Homeschooling is a huge family decision. It's not a schooling decision. It's a decision about what the values of a family are. Deciding to homeschool or not is a fundamental decision about family life. There is a point when kids can decide for themselves, but it's when kids are independent enough that schooling is not so much a family decision. |
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How to Respond to Haters When You've Decided to Homeschool |
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If you’ve made the decision to homeschool your children, more than likely, you’ve met resistance from almost everyone who knows and loves you and your children. The best way to address everyone’s discomfort with homeschooling was to make jokes about it, most of which addressed common stereotypes. |
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Making the Decision to Homeschool |
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Sabrina Justison |
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Homeschooling is actually not a good idea for every family. This list of points details things you should think about when deciding whether you will homeschool or not. |
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Making the Decision to Homeschool |
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Choosing to homeschool a deaf or hard-of-hearing child can offer some complex issues to consider. This articles offers a starting point to explore some of those issues and to help you decide if homeschooling is right for your family. |
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Ten Reasons to Homeschool Your Children |
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Brian L. Boley |
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A look at some of the reasons parent choose to home educate their children, including physical distance from a school, medical conditions, differences in learning styles, religious convictions, issues with government school, and the environment in today's schools. |
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Ten Signs that You Need to Find a Different Kind of Education for Your Child |
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Jerry Mintz |
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Because our public school system has now considerably deteriorated, many parents, teachers, and individuals have taken it upon themselves to create public and private alternatives to that traditional system which is definitely failing. It is important for parents to know that they now have choices, alternatives to the neighborhood school. How do you know that it is time to look for another educational approach for your child? Here are some of the signs. |
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Why Do People Homeschool? |
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Ann Brady |
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Even parents with diverse lifestyles and backgrounds can agree on the reasons for educating their own children at home. |
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Why I am Home-Schooling This Fall |
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Chandra Hoffman |
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Chandra Hoffman has decided to home-school her 8-year-old son Hayden once this school year ends. She certainly didn’t make this choice to fill her “free” time — her first novel, “Chosen,” is coming out this fall, and most authors clear their calendars for an event like that. But her overstuffed calendar — and her son’s — is precisely the reason she is making this choice. |
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Why I Homeschool |
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Penelope Trunk |
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A look at the many reasons to choose homeschooling over traditional schooling. |
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Why We Are (gulp!) Home Schooling |
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Ron Julian |
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More and more, public schools are confronting Christians with difficult choices. One parent explains why he and his wife made the decision to home school. He discusses how they perceived a clash of world views, the lack of balance between school and family, what education really is, and more. |
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Your School Sucks |
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Penelope Trunk |
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There is a cognitive dissonance about public schools. Everyone knows public schools in the US are terrible, but everyone thinks their school is the exception. The reality is that your school would be the exception only if it teaches using project-based learning. Which it doesn’t. The public schools that are exceptional are exceptional at teaching to the test – a process that’s widely discredited. Give your kids more credit than that. |
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