homeschooling

My wife is considering some homeschooling for our daughter, not because of the overtly religious nature of this area, but rather because my daughter suffers from a great deal of social anxiety and other mental disabilities that makes the social interaction of school more detrimental than the...

Does anybody here home-school their kids, or are you happy to entrust them to complete strangers (teachers) for years of their impressionable young lives?

Ok, so I am having trouble debating someone on this issue. Please help. Can someone provide some conclusive evidence/studies one way or the other? I am truly stumped on this one. Thanks in advance. PS. My personal opinion is that the variables are too many to count and so no one side is...

I am begining to wonder whether the GOP might be turning over random rocks to find candidates to run against Democratic incumbents. The latest entry into the -out-crazy-Sarah-Palin-Rodeo is Art Robinson, an entrepreneur who has made his fortune selling a home-schooling curriculum that some...

Well...last week I visited my parents' house and tried to dig up some of my old books from when I had been home schooled for 3 years. Unfortunately I could not find the history or health texts but I could find the science book, which I'm sure is the one you'd want to see most of all. Some of...

Over on PZ's blog there is a discussion of a recent article on the religious leaning of available materials for home schooling. Since there are a small percentage of people that homeschool for other reasons, it's hard for them to find science based textbooks to use. Someone commented that they...

A lot of people around the world are robbed, subjugated, tortured, and even murdered by despotic governments and/or totalitarian religious thugs. So it's a fine thing for a free nation to have a tradition of sheltering political refugees who are facing certain imprisonment or death at home for...

College From Home No Greater Joy Ministries I wonder where he gets that 70% figure, with what definition of Christian? I'm sure the various Roman Catholic institutions of higher learning would dispute that figure.

US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum While it seems a social issue at first glance, it's really doubly political: international, as well as the propriety of government demanding how you educate your children.

Saw this homeschool biology text referred to on Freep so I looked it up. http://www.highschoolscience.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4 Make sure you check out the sample module. It's filled with awful.

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Yesterday I went to my first ever Parent-Teacher conference. My daughter's kindergarten teacher laid out a big legal-sized report card that listed all of her strengths and weaknesses. To make a long story short, academically my daughter is performing above most first graders in most subjects at...

My wife and I are in the midst of a debate on whether to home school our kids or not. I am a product of a very good public school system and we live in a top notch public school system. Clearly I want to send our kids there. (Ages 5,3,2, 4 mo). My wife wants to home school. Around here, we have...

So, I'm childless for now, but I'm planning to not be forever. I'm dead set against public schooling, and I can't really find secular private schooling in my area. Anyone got any resources they'd care to share? Thanks! ST

You have mentioned in the past that public education does not have to be funded by government. Unfortunately it usually does not get far past that before moving on to other points. Could you describe such a plan? I'd like to see if the idea works for me...

Not according to this report: http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/default.asp

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87121,00.html The government is going over the line. Where's the aclu to defend the civil rights of these parents?