Is Homeschooling Dangerous?
I want to thank Dale Callahan and his daughter Catrina for providing inspiration for today’s blog. The link I’m talking about is: http://www.dalecallahan.com/people-know-to-fight-but-do-they-know-what-for/. Catrina’s thoughts, combined with an event a few months back where a homeschool family sought amnesty in US because Germany prevents it, spawned a few thoughts of my own. The Yahoo article [...]
Cost of Public Education vs. Health Care
As I write this, Congress is debating and voting on one of the most far reaching pieces of legislation since Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the Economic Security Bill of 1935. Later it was renamed The Social Security Act and ratified overwhelming by both Democrats and Republicans – see http://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html for the counts and names. [...]
Can you homeschool college?
Recently, Dale of AskDrCallahan posed this question. He said that more and more they see folks looking for alternatives to college. Often they don’t ask the question in these terms, but that is essentially what they mean. An entire article / book could be written on the issues plaguing college today. As Dale pointed out [...]
A Hard Look at School – Part 2
Last post, I included excerpts from an article titled “The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher” which got pretty long. Let’s continue that discussion here with personal observations. If you have not read the article I encourage it. http://www.ralphjordanblog.com/2010/02/a-hard-look-at-school-part-1/ I’m sure in reading the excerpts or the whole text we all could come up with examples where we can [...]
A Hard Look at School – part 1
A few weeks ago the homeschool group we are a part of circulated a 1991 letter that John Taylor Gatto had written right after he was named Teacher of the Year called the “The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher”. It is a clarifying view of the institution we have called Public Education (which really includes religious or private [...]
Interview with a CEO
As part of the IEM program, we were asked to do a reverse interview on a CEO of a company that operated in a field we were interested in. Obviously, I picked a company in the homeschool theater. I’ve purchased material from Veritas Press in the past (excellent products and service BTW) and my instructor [...]
Better me than you
This happened yesterday and prompted my post today – I heard a comment on our homeschooling that we hear frequently and wonder if you all hear the same thing and what you think about it. In discussing it with my wife, we determined that there are really 2 comments we hear more than any other [...]
