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Often the critics of homeschooling use the 'abuse card' to insist that homeschoolers must be regulated and monitored. Their mantra is public schools prevent abuse. Apparently they don't.
Why didn't Melanie's siblings tell a teacher what was going on? Why didn't a teacher notice that something was wrong? Even IF the siblings were not being physically abused themselves seeing Melanie being abused had to take a toll. Read more in The Sun Herald.
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Unschooling the Public in 25 Words or Less from Cocking a Snook. FLY, STUDENTS, FLY by Daryl over at HE&OS. And my humble rant.............................. I am sick and tired of hearing how public school kids have all this wonderful freedom (which obviously...
- Kestrel9000 Attacks Homeschooling At Daily Kos
First off I am going to take umbrage at the title of the post, Revisionist History: The Christian Right and the Miseducation Of Our Children. Shining Celebi and Lord Epa are mine and The Big Kahuna's kids they do not belong to anyone else. The idea...
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A certain blogger delights in pointing out problems they perceive with homeschooling (without any facts to back up their imaginary problems). While I personally think they should mind their own business as my homeschooling my own children in no way concerns...
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Let's be clear public school at home isn't the same as homeschooling. If people choose to do public school at home that's fine and dandy, but they are not homeschoolers. I can only wonder if Bounds desire to scrutinize homeschoolers is due...
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Homeschool Freedom points out the dangers of Home Based Instruction (virtual schools) to "independent homeschoolers". Having laid the PR background in step 4, anti-homeschooling activists are poised to get legislation passed that requires all homeschoolers...
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Public School Students' Sibling Abused
Often the critics of homeschooling use the 'abuse card' to insist that homeschoolers must be regulated and monitored. Their mantra is public schools prevent abuse. Apparently they don't.
Over the last three years, the 5-year-old girl was routinely tied up, struck, burned with cigarettes, forced to eat hot peppers and made to drink out of the toilet, Dart said. She had also been scalded, sustaining second- and third-degree burns, Dart said. Four of Petrov's children - but not Melanie - began attending Apollo School in Des Plaines in September, said Principal Lynn Glickman. Glickman said the children are in kindergarten and first, third and fourth grades. She would not comment on whether they had ever shown signs of abuse, nor would she talk about Petrov.
Why didn't Melanie's siblings tell a teacher what was going on? Why didn't a teacher notice that something was wrong? Even IF the siblings were not being physically abused themselves seeing Melanie being abused had to take a toll. Read more in The Sun Herald.
- Homeschooling Allows Children To Soar Above The Clouds
Unschooling the Public in 25 Words or Less from Cocking a Snook. FLY, STUDENTS, FLY by Daryl over at HE&OS. And my humble rant.............................. I am sick and tired of hearing how public school kids have all this wonderful freedom (which obviously...
- Kestrel9000 Attacks Homeschooling At Daily Kos
First off I am going to take umbrage at the title of the post, Revisionist History: The Christian Right and the Miseducation Of Our Children. Shining Celebi and Lord Epa are mine and The Big Kahuna's kids they do not belong to anyone else. The idea...
- Why Homeschoolers Care About Public Schools
A certain blogger delights in pointing out problems they perceive with homeschooling (without any facts to back up their imaginary problems). While I personally think they should mind their own business as my homeschooling my own children in no way concerns...
- From The Blogosphere
Let's be clear public school at home isn't the same as homeschooling. If people choose to do public school at home that's fine and dandy, but they are not homeschoolers. I can only wonder if Bounds desire to scrutinize homeschoolers is due...
- Educational News
Homeschool Freedom points out the dangers of Home Based Instruction (virtual schools) to "independent homeschoolers". Having laid the PR background in step 4, anti-homeschooling activists are poised to get legislation passed that requires all homeschoolers...