Principled Discovery Principled Discovery Homeschooling mother of four takes a break from third grade to reflect on issues of faith, family and education. Articles
Church related school diploma not worth paper it is written on
2008-05-06 07:58:00 I think the educational bureaucracy in Tennessee has gone just a little over the edge recently. It apparently does not like church related schools very much, even if these represent one of the ways to homeschool a child outlined in Tennessee law. From the Tennessee Home Education Association (emphasis mine): Cindy Benefield with the ... More About: Church , School , Paper , Worth , Related
A more concrete objection to testing homeschools
2008-05-05 08:25:00 The Thirst for Freedom posted a nice entry regarding my post about researching homeschooling which received an interesting comment from Casper about homeschoolers and testing. With the accountability craze in the public schools right now, it is unlikely this is a concern that is going to go away any time soon and with the ... More About: Testing , Concrete
Why do we care what Greg Laden has to say?
2008-05-02 07:37:00 Somewhere I missed the memo, but how does someone with such skilled (not!) introductions as this: Home schooling is probably a really good idea for a lot of people, but only for a certain (unknown) percentage of people who actually do it. And, among those who do manage to home school, I would guess that the ... More About: Care , Greg , Laden
A tentative diagnosis
2008-05-01 04:33:00 Well, I had intended on posting yesterday. I did not slink away into a cyber-hermitage after receiving my daughter’s diagnosis and actually had a post planned for last night. But not being able to log in to my account put a bit of a damper on my ability to post. For those ... More About: Diagnosis
Jell-o for breakfast
2008-04-28 16:11:00 Update: my brave little girl is currently drinking that disgusting stuff. Her facial expressions say enough, but she is willing herself through it. What a girl. Also, comments are working again! And my site is updated and working! Yeah! The “Big Day” is finally almost here. And today is the day my ... More About: Breakfast
I?m not quite over homeschooling
2008-04-26 08:05:00 I have been trying to contemplate this entry since I read it Thursday night: I’m so over homeschooling. But may I ask why you feel the need to take the overachiever angle? Don?t you think you might be raising expectations a bit high as you step on our heads to reach the summit? Do you ... More About: Homeschooling
Homeschool critics taking quotes out of context
2008-04-25 16:56:00 Via Doc’s Sunrise Rants, I found Jack Lessenberry’s essay on Homeschooling. She does a rather good job of refuting just about everything he says, but I couldn’t help but focus on one part of the essay which seemed out of place. Hillsdale College is about as conservative a liberal arts school as exists on the ... More About: Quotes , Context , Critics , Taking
Homeschooling cuts children off from oversight
2008-04-25 09:31:00 The St. Augustine Record recently published a wonderful article highlighting all that is wrong with the way “authorities” think about homeschooling (all block quotes are from the article). “Abuse is a huge question in our office. We can’t get a handle on it,” said [home education coordinator Robert Schiavone]. That would be the home education coordinator ... More About: Children , Homeschooling , Cuts
How online communication has affected me
2008-04-24 08:35:00 Christine, aka The Thinking Mother made a good point on my post looking at how our virtual lives affect our personal lives. Discussing the affect on children and teens doing role playing games or regular video games is very different than discussing adults who were socialized before the big video game craze and before the Internet ... More About: Communication , Online
Carnival of Homeschooling wrap-up
2008-04-23 16:02:00 Running the carnival this weeks seems to have zapped me of all extra energy. Of course, losing the internet connection at the start of last week did not help. It pretty much forced me to sort and incorporate all 60 or so entries in a relatively short time. (Like the night before…am ... More About: Carnival , Homeschooling , Wrap
The Carnival of Homeschooling honors the homeschool bag lady
2008-04-22 10:43:00 Welcome to the 121st edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling which has grown a great deal since I first heard of it while I was still blogging over at HSB. It is even beginning to attract its own spam, the first mark of recognition in the blogging world. This week’s carnival is inspired ... More About: Lady
Do our virtual lives affect our real lives?
2008-04-21 06:13:00 On the discussion regarding Victoria Lindsay, the Florida teen whose classmates beat her up and videotaped it to share on Youtube, Crimson Wife of Bending the Twigs shared a video game. In my local paper last week, there was this glowing review of a new video game called ?Bully: Scholarship Edition? that I found absolutely appalling. ... More About: Virtual , Real , Lives
Send in those entries! and Losing my Bookmarks
2008-04-20 07:53:00 Just a reminder that entries for the Carnival of Homeschooling are due Monday evening. Please send in your submissions via the form at BlogCarnival. And a lesson for me: Don’t whine. Computer issues are annoying. You do not really realize how much you use the computer throughout the day until that luxury is not available. How many times ... More About: Send , Bookmarks
We?re from the DOE and we?re here to help
2008-04-18 07:53:00 Homeschoolers in New Hampshire are currently fighting SB337, a bill which would require them to file a curriculum plan to the state at the beginning of the school year, a provision which was just dropped from the law in 2006. The bill passed the senate, and on Tuesday, April 15, homeschoolers packed the ...
Researching homeschooling, we need a new direction
2008-04-17 06:39:00 Resolution 369, calling to “examine policy changes that should be pursued in order to provide further guidance and oversight of Nebraska?s home schools,” has been referred to the education committee. Ironically, the state of Nebraska is not the only entity looking to study homeschoolers. Homeschooling families who use standardized testing through BJU Press, Family Learning ... More About: Direction
Seeking submissions
2008-04-16 14:10:00 I will be hosting the Carnival of Homeschooling on April 22! Please send your homeschooling related posts to me via the handy submission form at BlogCarnival. And in case you are wondering, my computer is all better now. My husband got called to work before he could finish, but stayed up when he got home to ... More About: Seeking
Technical Difficulties
2008-04-15 20:18:00 Well, my unintentional break from almost all things computer has been sort of nice, but frustrating. You don’t realize how much you use the computer for daily tasks until you do not have that option. Our computer has been acting up and finally stopped working altogether yesterday. My dear husband is working on it and hopefully ... More About: Technical
Free gardening unit study
2008-04-12 07:00:00 I recently dug up an old unit study I did on gardening and developing Christian character and shared it on a couple of forums I am active on. Now converted to a pdf file with one correction, I offer my free gardening unit to anyone who is interested. So long as my name and link ... More About: Study , Gardening , Free , Unit
Videotaped victim to be homeschooled
2008-04-11 08:55:00 Sixteen year old Victoria Lindsay apparently posted some things to her MySpace account about her classmates that weren’t very nice. This “cyberbullying” left the virtual world when the “victims” showed up at her house and took turns beating her up. For the camera since they intended on posting the entire ordeal to YouTube. According to her ... More About: Victim
Death to (Christian) homeschooling?
2008-04-10 07:11:00 Strong words from Tony Jones, author of The New Christian s: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. I don’t want to get into the emergent church debate. I don’t know that much about it, but if his current “dispatch” has anything to do with the emergent church, I think I’ll steer clear of it. ... More About: Homeschooling , Death
Resolution to examine policies to further oversight of NE homeschools
2008-04-09 06:49:00 This legislative session is set to end April 17, but the end couldn’t come quite fast enough. Senator Schimek, who introduced LB 1141 to mandate testing of all homeschools in Nebraska, has introduced a resolution. Not one of those feel-good but do-nothing resolutions like the one apologizing for the state’s role in slavery. ... More About: Policies , Resolution
I agree with Rob Reich
2008-04-08 07:45:00 Rob Reich , Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society at Stanford University and outspoken proponent of stricter regulations on homeschools, was a recent guest on the Dianne Rehm Show alongside Michael Donnelly of HSLDA and Gretchen Roe, a homeschooling mother. Valerie of Home Education Magazine did a nice job with her summary of the ...
April Issue of Heart of the Matter is up!
2008-04-08 07:37:00 Take a peek: And don’t forget to check out my article, Homeschooling as a Matter of Public Discussion. Every challenge also presents an opportunity. Even those presented by California courts. More About: April , Heart , Issue
When should public policy not be open to the public?
2008-04-07 03:17:00 Earlier this school year, apparently, three homeschooled students were asked to withdraw from all but two classes “in order to meet a requirement that public school classes make up no more than 50 percent of their instructional day.” The problem is, no such policy exists. Hence homeschoolers crowded in to a board meeting ... More About: Public , Open , Policy , Public policy
Home Education Week Wrap-up
2008-04-06 06:53:00 Thank you so much to all of you who chose to participate in Home Education Week here at Principled Discovery. Your comments warmed my heart and your entries inspired me. Those I could keep up with, anyway. When I decided to go through with this, I was really hoping that at least five or six ... More About: Wrap
When should public policy not be open to the public?
2008-04-06 04:17:00 Earlier this school year, apparently, three homeschooled students were asked to withdraw from all but two classes “in order to meet a requirement that public school classes make up no more than 50 percent of their instructional day.” The problem is, no such policy exists. Hence homeschoolers crowded in to a board meeting ... More About: Public , Open , Policy , Public policy
Looking forward
2008-04-05 05:34:00 I have changed considerably since I set up my first home-based classroom complete with a school desk, makeshift white board, and even a pointer. Now, learning is more relaxed, more exploratory. Interestingly, is is also deeper as we focus more on understanding than on mental discipline. But we still have a long ... More About: Forward
In their own words
2008-04-04 06:29:00 The comments my children make about education are quite indicative of the changes I have gone through as a teacher over the last three and a half years educating my children at home. Mouse, my eldest, has received the most attention in these entries thus far because, well, she is the eldest. She ... More About: Words
Update on my daughter
2008-04-03 23:34:00 Sorry to interrupt Home Education Week, but I have received a number of emails from people who have been wondering what we have found out about my daughter since the last time I mentioned it, she was getting ready to see a specialist. And I’m sure many more have been wondering without emailing me. ... More About: Update , Daughter
Show and Tell
More articles from this author:2008-04-03 06:40:00 When I wrote the prompts, I thought today’s would be easy. Grab a notebook, pick some work and photocopy it for the world to see. Then the problems started. My children just do not see the world the same way I do. Take a recent field trip. One of my resolutions for ... More About: Show 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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