Cynthia Hancox has written a great article for new home educators especially as they consider who to help them with the exemption process and possible tutoring of their children. As more and more teachers are loosing their jobs this is a great article for teachers to read to understand home…
Category: All About Education
Why Teachers Choose to Homeschool Their Own Children
“Schools are different now, they’ve changed a lot you know!” As a home educating parent I hear this a lot. People want to believe we just don’t know what goes on in schools, as if they operate in secret or something. Not the case, obviously. You know who knows a…
Christians in Public Schooling: Comfortable in Slavery
Douglas Pietersma, Ed.S. No doubt you have heard the anecdote of how a frog dropped into boiling water will react violently and do everything possible to escape. In contrast, a frog placed in tepid water, heated slowly, will lethargically accept the situation without any attempt to escape inevitable death. In…
Who’s home-educating who?
Home educating was such an inspiring experience. Never regretted – sorely missed! Now those little ones are grown ups they dash home for visits between work schedules and off they go again leaving the house to fall back into the ordered quiet I once wished for but don’t enjoy as…
How Books and Television Affect Your Brain Differently, According to Science
Melissa Chu There’s a perception that books are good, while TV is bad. Spend a day curled up with a book and you’re an intellectual, but spend a day watching your favorite show and you become a couch potato. Similar to how candy gives you cavities and sun tanning is…