"Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child." - Charles Handy (Irish author, philosopher, economist)
Yet another advantage of homeschooling...individualized education! Parents have the freedom to choose the curriculum that best fits their child's learning style, ability, and interests. Also, homeschooling enables the child to learn at his own pace. The "one size fits all" approach used by the public schools just does not work. It is impossible for a teacher to give individualized attention to all of her students. In every public school class, the more advanced students are bored out of their minds while they wait on the slower students to catch up, and the slower students are stressed and embarassed because they realize they are lagging behind everyone else. Happily, this is not a problem for homeschooled students. With homeschooling, a student may spend as much, or as little, time as needed on each lesson. Typically, homeschoolers can get their lessons done in 3 or 4 hours or less, leaving more time for non-curricular interests such as sports, music, volunteer work, part-time job, or visits to grandma!
Friday, June 29, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
"Can't wait..."
"Can't wait to meet the next person who tells me he's putting his kid back in public school. I'm going to ask, 'But, what about socialization?' " - Rick Boyer http://thelearningparent.blogspot.com
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Public Schools: The Ideal Venue for the Promotion and Implementation of Humanistic Views
Charles F. Potter, a leading humanist of his day, wrote in the Humanist magazine during the 1930s that:
"Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour a week and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?"
Another leading humanist, John Dunphy, wrote in the Humanist Magazine in 1983:
"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity... The teacher must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit...The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism."
Scary, isn't it? But, there is hope. Christian parents in America do not have to send their kids to public school to be indoctrinated with this garbage. Homeschooling is the ideal option to combat the brainwashing going on in our public schools. If, for whatever reason, parents feel that they just cannot homeschool, there is the possiblility of hiring others to do it for you. This could be a relative, a friend, or another homeschooling parent. Contact the Home School Legal Defense Association for more information about that. They can supply you with a Power of Attorney form giving someone else the right to educate your child. This form must be notarized to make it legal. I will be using the Power of Attorney granted to me by my daughter and son-in-law to homeschool my grandchildren when they reach official school age / kindergarten. (Currently, I am "pre"-schooling my 3 year old grandson.)
"Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour a week and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?"
Another leading humanist, John Dunphy, wrote in the Humanist Magazine in 1983:
"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity... The teacher must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit...The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism."
Scary, isn't it? But, there is hope. Christian parents in America do not have to send their kids to public school to be indoctrinated with this garbage. Homeschooling is the ideal option to combat the brainwashing going on in our public schools. If, for whatever reason, parents feel that they just cannot homeschool, there is the possiblility of hiring others to do it for you. This could be a relative, a friend, or another homeschooling parent. Contact the Home School Legal Defense Association for more information about that. They can supply you with a Power of Attorney form giving someone else the right to educate your child. This form must be notarized to make it legal. I will be using the Power of Attorney granted to me by my daughter and son-in-law to homeschool my grandchildren when they reach official school age / kindergarten. (Currently, I am "pre"-schooling my 3 year old grandson.)
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
The Cost of NOT Homeschooling...
A great article:
"Remembering the Cost of Not Homeschooling" by: Naomi Musch, mother of 4 homeschool graduates and 1 still being homeschooled.
http://www.crosswalk.com/family/homeschool/remembering-the-cost-of-not-homeschooling.11624788.html
I can't get the link to work, despite the fact that this is the link shown for the article. If my readers cannot get the link to work, then type into your search engine the title of the article and the name of the author, and it should take you to the link.
A little more trouble, but well worth the read!
"Remembering the Cost of Not Homeschooling" by: Naomi Musch, mother of 4 homeschool graduates and 1 still being homeschooled.
http://www.crosswalk.com/family/homeschool/remembering-the-cost-of-not-homeschooling.11624788.html
I can't get the link to work, despite the fact that this is the link shown for the article. If my readers cannot get the link to work, then type into your search engine the title of the article and the name of the author, and it should take you to the link.
A little more trouble, but well worth the read!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Homeschooling Through High School - You Can Do It!
I have become aware that there are some Christian homeschooling families who homeschool their children only during their elementary and middle school years and then put them in public school for their high school years. I personally feel that this can potentially cause more harm than good, for it is the environment of the public high schools that can have the most negative influences on your children. It has been my own experience with my own children that these negative influences (peer pressure, disrespect for parents, violence, sexual harrassment, immoral lifestyles, smoking, drugs, etc.) actually begin showing themselves in the public middle schools - by the 6th & 7th grades, if not sooner. If parents homeschool for the lower grades only, then it is more than probable that the good they tried to instill in their children will become undone by the time they graduate high school. Sure, there is a chance that these kids will turn out fine despite the negative influences during their most formative years, but that chance is slim because the parents will no longer be the major power exerted over the minds and behavior of their children. More waking hours will be spent in the company of their immature peers who, for the most part, lack proper social skills than in the company of their mature parents who know the proper way to act in social situations. Also, these formerly homeschooled children will now be exposed to textbooks which promote evolution as being fact rather than a theory, humanist propaganda rather than history, and a tolerance/acceptance for immoral and unnatural lifestyles.
Some homeschooling parents feel that they are somehow inadequate or too unlearned themselves to educate their children through high school, and that is why they stop homeschooling after elementary or middle school. While I can understand their reasoning, I want to assure these parents that homeschooling through high school CAN be done despite these fears. I've been there, I know!
(You can read more about my homeschooling experiences with my own children on my earlier blogs - from June, July, etc. of 2011.)
I graduated from a public high school knowing only basic math and basic science, yet I was able to take my kids through high school at home in all the major subjects which included Algebra 1 & 2, Geometry, Biology, & Chemistry. I was able to do this through a combination of lessons on video, a private tutor which we used for Algebra 1 for a few months, and a community college class in Algebra 2 which my daughter and I both took together. Needless to say, I educated myself alongside my homeschooled children. Two of my three children went on to attend college after graduating high school at home. Both of them were ready for all college-level courses. They did not have to take any remedial classes. The one child (my older son) that did not attend college, frequently tutored his girlfriend during her first year of college, despite the fact that he'd never taken a college class himself.
All three of my children ended up with great jobs, though my daughter has now become a stay-at-home mom and has asked me to help her homeschool her own children.
So, parents, please don't let your own lack of education hinder you from homeschooling your children through high school. Listed below are a few homeschooling publishers from which you may obtain lessons on video or via internet connection to homeschool instructors. Also, check with your community college for "dual enrollment" classes for your high school student. Each state will have a minimum age for enrollment in these community college classes. In my own state it is 16 years old.
www.abeka.com
www.bjupress.com
http://schooloftomorrowusa.com
www.libertyonlineacademy.com
www.chalkdust.com
www.teachingtextbooks.com
You could do an internet search for other sources. Try "homeschooling curriculum on DVD" and see what comes up.
Blessings to you on your homeschooling journey!
Some homeschooling parents feel that they are somehow inadequate or too unlearned themselves to educate their children through high school, and that is why they stop homeschooling after elementary or middle school. While I can understand their reasoning, I want to assure these parents that homeschooling through high school CAN be done despite these fears. I've been there, I know!
(You can read more about my homeschooling experiences with my own children on my earlier blogs - from June, July, etc. of 2011.)
I graduated from a public high school knowing only basic math and basic science, yet I was able to take my kids through high school at home in all the major subjects which included Algebra 1 & 2, Geometry, Biology, & Chemistry. I was able to do this through a combination of lessons on video, a private tutor which we used for Algebra 1 for a few months, and a community college class in Algebra 2 which my daughter and I both took together. Needless to say, I educated myself alongside my homeschooled children. Two of my three children went on to attend college after graduating high school at home. Both of them were ready for all college-level courses. They did not have to take any remedial classes. The one child (my older son) that did not attend college, frequently tutored his girlfriend during her first year of college, despite the fact that he'd never taken a college class himself.
All three of my children ended up with great jobs, though my daughter has now become a stay-at-home mom and has asked me to help her homeschool her own children.
So, parents, please don't let your own lack of education hinder you from homeschooling your children through high school. Listed below are a few homeschooling publishers from which you may obtain lessons on video or via internet connection to homeschool instructors. Also, check with your community college for "dual enrollment" classes for your high school student. Each state will have a minimum age for enrollment in these community college classes. In my own state it is 16 years old.
www.abeka.com
www.bjupress.com
http://schooloftomorrowusa.com
www.libertyonlineacademy.com
www.chalkdust.com
www.teachingtextbooks.com
You could do an internet search for other sources. Try "homeschooling curriculum on DVD" and see what comes up.
Blessings to you on your homeschooling journey!
Friday, June 1, 2012
Psychological Counseling...
"Back in my day, we didn't have psychological counseling. We had parents!" - Bill Cosby (as Hilton Lucas on The Cosby Show)
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