Jun 20, 2013 | Homeschoolers
A Missouri county circuit court dismissed truancy charges against homeschooling mother Jacinda Haberly (all names changed to protect privacy) on January 31, 2013. In September 2012, Jacinda Haberly withdrew her 8th and 5th grade daughters, Karen and Miranda, from...
Jun 18, 2013 | Homeschoolers
“Do you homeschool?” I get that question often and it makes me smile. How is it we “look like” a homeschool family? Maybe it has something to do with the other question I get a lot – “Are all those kids yours?!?” With 5 kids including 2 sets of twins, I guess we...
Jun 17, 2013 | Homeschoolers
Once on a street not too far from me There live a family – how many kids? – 3. They were off on a journey, and they weren’t fooling! They left P.S. 4 to switch to homeschooling. At first all was new, novel, and fun. These motivated kids were learning a ton! BUT...
Jun 13, 2013 | Homeschoolers
From Breitbart.com As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years,...
Jun 11, 2013 | Homeschoolers
I don’t live far from the Great Continental Divide in Colorado. I knew that the water runoff to one side fed the watersheds to the west and eventually drained into the Pacific and on the other side of the divide the water ran east and eventually into the Atlantic. ...
Jun 6, 2013 | Homeschoolers
By Tiany Davis from Sheknows.com With summer almost here, vacation planning is in full swing. As homeschoolers, the learning does not have to end when we take off for family vacations. Learning should be a natural extension of our children’s day-to-day...
