Principled Discovery Principled Discovery Homeschooling mother of four takes a break from third grade to reflect on issues of faith, family and education. Articles
Huckabee and monolithic homeschoolers
2007-12-17 09:55:00 My email box is slowly filling up with article after article connecting presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ’s sudden rise to significance in Iowa to the organization of homeschoolers. A sampling: Julie Roe, with characteristic homeschool thrift, is spotlighted in an article from the Washington Post: With no buttons, no yard signs and no glossy literature from his ... More About: Homeschoolers
Homeschool advocate dies in surgery
2007-12-17 07:06:00 I received a sad bit of news in my inbox yesterday. Jim Montgomery, the husband of Pat Montgomery, who helped found the Clonlara School and has been a strong advocate for educational freedom here and abroad, died during a bypass operation on the 15th of December. I was not able to find much ... More About: Surgery , Advocate , Dies , Urge
Saturday School: Wanted Posters
2007-12-15 20:50:00 Welcome to Saturday School , my weekly look into the practical side of homeschooling. Feel free to leave a link in the comment section if you have shared any practical ideas recently! This week, I am sharing a quick reading activity to help your child learn about a character in a book. The final result ... More About: Posters , Wanted
Awards, campaigns and a realization
2007-12-14 10:06:00 Voting for the 2007 Homeschool Blog Awards ends midnight December 15 Pacific Standard Time. I have been watching closely as Home Where They Belong and Why Homeschool have both been quietly but steadily climbing up the ranks, slowly gathering energy for an eleventh hour challenge to my lead in the Best Current Events, Opinions or ... More About: Campaigns , Realization
Fundamentalism, psychotropic drugs and mass murder
2007-12-13 16:47:00 An interesting discussion has begun in response to my post about the shootings in Colorado. Julie of Shanan Trail brought up a question about how Christians in particular view mental illness in light of her experience with her daughter. What I have found in the homeschooling and Christian community is almost a denial that mental ... More About: Murder , Fundamentalism , Drugs , Mass , Mass Murder
German court?s decision and carnivals up
2007-12-12 06:50:00 Educating German y has kindly posted the translation of the German High Court ’s decision regarding homeschooling. While the family affected is devoutly religious, note that the language does not apply specifically to their religious beliefs. The grounds of endangerment have nothing to do with the physical or emotional well-being of the children in the home. The mental ... More About: Carnivals , Decision
More shootings, and what does education have to do with it anyway?
2007-12-11 18:40:00 I wasn’t going to post on this. I have had enough of shootings for the moment. (In case you haven’t heard about it yet, there was another shooting, this time in a missionary training center and a mega church in Colorado. By a young man who was homeschooled in a Christian family.) But a ... More About: Education
Home affects school
2007-12-11 15:10:00 The Sun Herald ran a story this weekend with a shocking headline: Home affects school. This conclusion is based on a research report released by the Educational Testing Service in September which studied America’s achievement gap in light of key factors known to affect school achievement. Predictably, they found that discrepancies in performance between school districts ... More About: School
Another great carnival?
2007-12-10 23:58:00 Renae of Life Nurturing Education did a wonderful job with the Carnival of Principled Government (yet again). Join her for some discussion on the essential ideas of liberty. I haven’t had a chance to check out all the entries yet, but since I just posted on the new vaccination schedule for New Jersey, naturemom’s entry ... More About: Great
NJ considering new round of mandatory vaccines
2007-12-10 07:29:00 The New York Times is reporting that that the New Jersey Public Health Council will be voting on a new rule today (Monday) that will require the addition of four new vaccines to the schedule, including one for any child entering school or daycare. The flu vaccine is one of four that the council will consider. ... More About: Vaccines , Round , Consider , Erin
A different presentation of German homeschooling
2007-12-09 16:38:00 Most of the information I have posted on German y has focused on the persecution felt by homeschoolers in Germany. In the wake of a few high profile cases, however, there is evidence that public attitude is beginning to shift. There have been a number of positive articles on homeschooling in German newspapers which ... More About: Homeschooling , Presentation , Diff
Call for submissions
2007-12-08 19:35:00 The next edition of the Carnival of Principled Government goes up Monday over at Life Nurturing Education. This carnival is intended to promote entries which uplift our nation’s founding principles, including limited government, representational government, personal responsibility, etc. The easiest way to contribute is to use the carnival submit form from blog carnival. If you ... More About: Call , Missi
Saturday School: Teaching cycles
2007-12-08 06:17:00 Welcome to Saturday School , my weekly look into the practical side of homeschooling. Feel free to leave a link in the comment section if you have shared any practical ideas recently! A couple weeks ago, I shared instructions for making a circle book out of paper plates, and Julie of Shanan Trail noted she ... More About: Teaching , Cycles
Thoughts on the Westroads Mall shooting
2007-12-07 08:44:00 Thanks to not having a television, the first I heard of the mall shooting in Omaha yesterday was through an email from another blogger I opened this morning. Dana, you’re ok down in there in Nebraska I hope? It was an odd subject line and not how his emails usually begin. Nine dead in a shopping ... More About: Thoughts , Shooting , Mall
The Carnival of Homeschooling?
2007-12-07 05:22:00 …is up. Share This More About: Carnival , Homeschooling
Voted? Get your sticker!
2007-12-06 02:42:00 Browsing through campaign speeches last night, I came across It Coulda’ Been Worse’s shameless plea for votes. One of her commenters noted, I did my part. I?d like one of those stickers now that says ?I voted today.? Well, Ellen from The Happy Wonderer, today is your lucky day. Because I thought that was a ... More About: Sticker , Tick
School is safer than home
2007-12-05 08:52:00 In Ooltewah, TN, 800 students skipped school after a student posted a false rumor of a gang attack. According to WRCBTV, this may have been the wrong move. Friday, 20% of students chose not to attend classes. By Monday, that number jumped to 45%, or 800 of the school’s 1800 students. Threat or no ... More About: Home , School
Despite controversy, polls open on time
2007-12-04 08:45:00 Despite ongoing controversy, polls opened for the Best Current Events, Opinions or Politics Blog yesterday in the wee hours of the morning. Principled Discovery was pleasantly surprised to see her blog in the top of the category, with a clear 75% of the vote. I understand only four people had voted, but I think this ... More About: Time , Open , Polls , Controversy
Why is homeschool cool?
2007-12-03 17:59:00 Laurel Springs School, a distance learning program, is hosting a YouTube Video contest for homeschoolers. With 35 entries so far, they are asking homeschooled children ages 5 to 18 the question, “Why is Homeschool Cool ?” With a grand prize of $1000, I am surprised there was not more participation, but I assume that ...
Advent, Advent
2007-12-03 05:34:00 The Advent season is almost upon us. “Advent” means simply, “important arrival” and of course refers to the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. According to Webster’s 1828 dictionary, it means, A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning of St. Andrew’s Day, or on ...
Homeschool support where it matters most
2007-12-02 04:58:00 I recently stumbled across an interesting discussion on education in a forum and couldn’t help but take notice when the conversation turned to homeschooling. Homeschooling develops the whole person, creative thinking, and the capability of abstract thought. The public education system seeks to destroy all those qualities in the individual. –Warren Giese Warren Giese is ... More About: Support , Matters
Page load problems, please help!
2007-12-01 08:12:00 For some reason, my home page is not loading. If you click on the title of this entry, the site will load. If you have any ideas whatsoever on what is wrong and how to fix it, please tell me. Here is my actual entry for today: Saturday School: Candy Airplanes The site is navigable from there ... More About: Page , Problems , Load
Saturday School: Candy Airplanes
2007-12-01 07:46:00 Welcome to Saturday School , Principled Discovery’s weekly foray into the practical side of homeschooling. Feel free to add your links in comments if you have any lessons, projects or instructional strategies to share! For my daughter’s ninth birthday, we took her, my parents and four of her friends to a little tea house downtown. ... More About: Airplanes , Candy
Spanking and abuse
2007-11-30 10:54:00 Massachusetts seems to have set off a national debate on the use of corporal punishment with its proposed legislation to ban the practice. State representative Jay Kaufman who is presenting the bill on behalf of the Arlington nurse who first proposed it says of the bill, We need to have a serious public conversation, not ... More About: Abuse
Cheapening all it means to be American and woman
2007-11-29 08:48:00 I am not sure what is being cheapened here: women or our rights. I have seen the advertisements for BITTEN, Sarah Jessica Parker’s new line of fashion, hanging in the mall and they bother me more every time I see them. Visiting BITTEN’s website, I find this increasingly offensive line of fashion has its own manifesto: It ... More About: American , Woman
A few links?
2007-11-29 08:09:00 Hey, I was nominated for a Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize for Thoughtful Homeschooling. I guess I have been out standing in my field long enough! Check out the Carnival of Education for the rest of the winners. Standing on Isaiah 54:13 also nominated me for an award: Blogging with Purpose. I have a hard time ... More About: Links
Thoughts for one considering homeschool
2007-11-28 08:07:00 Cat over at Dreams of a Country Girl has just revealed that she is maybe, might, kind of, sort of, possibly, perhaps considering homeschooling. I have been there and know from experience how frightening this decision can be. So I will attempt to answer some of her many questions from my experience as ... More About: Thoughts , Consider , Erin
Homeschooling carnivals posted
2007-11-27 23:37:00 Take a moment (or several) to check out the 100th edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling over at Mom is Teaching. It looks like Summer did a fantastic job yet again! And in case that is not quite enough reading for your, the wild rumpus is going on over at Dominion Family for the 6th Charlotte ... More About: Carnivals
Sesame Street not for ?today?s preschool child?
2007-11-27 06:44:00 Tammy over at Just Enough, and Nothing More is discussing the real world and how homeschooling relates. I have spent some time pondering what the real world is, how public school prepares and/or creates that world and what it all has to do with homeschooling for some time now. I have not come to any pithy ... More About: Today , Sesame , Street , Child , Sesame Street
Homeschooling for more than ?just religious reasons?
More articles from this author:2007-11-26 16:13:00 The Longmont Daily has an interesting article on homeschooling. ABCs of inhouse education takes a brief look at some of the different reasons people homeschool. The words of one of the homeschoolers interviewed stood out to me. Christine Vigorita removed her daughter from school in the sixth grade because of medical ... More About: Homeschooling , Reasons , Religious 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
|
 |
|
 |
