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Why socialization is not only a non-issue for homeschoolers, but socialization is better done at home by Kyle Williams

Homeschooling offers a safe environment, is physically safe, spiritually safe and morally safe. That creates a foundation which will stay with the person their entire life and keep him or her anchored. Most homeschoolers I have encountered know right from wrong and are not afraid to express it. To leave the life of a child in the hands of the government and strangers almost their entire childhood life is not only a mistake, but immoral. www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31539

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TRAIN UP A CHILD: THOUGHTS ON HOME SCHOOLING

An estimated 2 million children were home schooled last year and that number is growing fast. The effectiveness of home schooling has been the subject of much research and debate. Critics decry home schooling as being ineffectual for scholastic achievement. The facts speak otherwise... www.khouse.org/  050830-thoughts On Home Schooling

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Train up a child: Home Schooling by Chuck Missler

It should come as no surprise that the current state-run public school system in the United States is both morally and academically bankrupt. Educational experiments during the last 50 years have shown that top-down reforms are not effective. The frustration with our educational system has been building for years. www.khouse.org/articles/1995/65/?mv_pc=ENEWS

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TO HOME SCHOOL OR NOT... by Betty Freauf

President Ronald Reagan gave the home school movement his blessing when he said in 1983, "I believe the parents, not the government, have the primary responsibility of educating their children." However, he failed in fulfilling his campaign promise to shut down the Department of Education. It was reported in HUMAN EVENTS in December 1984 that the home school movement was the fastest growing movement in the country as parents continued to fight for positive recognition. The May 1999 EDUCATION REPORTER indicated a national study showed home schoolers outperforming peers at all grade levels in the public schools and they even out performed kids in private schools. Studies like this must make the blood boil of those leaders at the National Education Association which stated in its resolution in 1989, "Home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience." As more and more parents recognized their God-given duty to their children we have come to the point where even the media is beginning to acknowledge the advantages of home schooling. It no longer seems to be stereotyped as a negative thing. Any parent that can read, can teach. Any child that can read, can teach themselves and now with the Internet, VCR's, videos and other ancillary devices, home schooling is much easier. www.newswithviews.com/Betty/Freauf51.htm

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Home schooling: Does your family have what it takes? Veteran home educator offers advice by Tina Miller

When people ask me, "How long have you been home schooling," my usual reply is, "13 years." If I were to be completely accurate, I would probably answer, "Since the birth of my first child." After all, home schooling is more than one on a list of educational options; it's a lifestyle that goes far beyond teaching the three R's – Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. It is a way of life that is invigorating and rewarding, yet draining and frustrating. www.afajournal.org/2006/august/0806homeschool.html  0801-homeschooling-do You Have What It Takes

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Gross Sterotypes not withstanding, homeschoolers are a diverse group of people by Rebecca H. Davis, Ph.D.

I am writing to inquire whether it is your policy to allow gross stereotypes to be perpetuated in your paper or if the "Homeschool Horror" article was an aberration. As a homeschooler who fits not one single word of the description of homeschoolers offered by Quinn Cotton, I was more than a little bit offended to be compared to a Stepford wife and an Islamic terrorist. Plain and simple, Cotton's piece was bigotry. Shame on you and your paper for allowing Cotton's expression of bigotry. How many other groups in our society is it acceptable to slander the way Cotton slanders homeschoolers? Homeschoolers are a diverse group of people. Research shows that as the numbers of homeschoolers have grown, the population of homeschoolers has become increasing similar to the population at large. Talk to homeschoolers. Each one has a story. Each one homeschools for a unique set of reasons. In my mind, the burden of proof should fall on the public school system, not on the homeschool community. Instead of people beginning with the assumption that children belong in school and that homeschoolers should provide persuasive evidence to the contrary in order to justify their decisions to keep children out of schools, I believe that the public school system should offer us persuasive evidence that it should have some sort of claim to our children. When the school system can demonstrate that it is academically succeeding, that it can keep my child safe, that my child will not be bullied or ridiculed if different in the public school system, that my child will be taught to think independently and that my family and child's values will be respected, then I'll consider putting my child back in it. Even then, though, we might choose the status quo. I enjoy having my children at home with me and they enjoy being here. homeschooling.about.com/od/newtopstories/a/hshorror.htm

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GREAT RESOURCES FOR YOUR KIDS by Dr. Joel Wade

When I was a kid, I don't think my parents thought very much about what school my siblings and I would attend, or what we were or were not learning. We went to the local public school, and my parents expected us to go and learn; they expected our teachers to teach, and they expected the administrators to keep a well run school. That was all there was to it. But times have changed, and the public schools are not what my parents thought they were. So since our kids were little my wife and I have thought about and researched how to help them learn, how to encourage them to do good work, how to make sure they had good people to teach them, and how to be sure that what they are learning is worthwhile... 071005-joel Wade-great Resources For Your Kids

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Adults who were homeschooled far more likely than the average American to be civically minded and engaged in their local communities by Art Moore

Not only does homeschooling turn out more active citizens, it produces Americans who tend in overwhelming numbers to hold conservative values. ... In its synopsis of the study, the Home School Legal Defense Association said it presented good news for homeschooling parents wondering whether they made the right choice for their children, showing 95 percent of the homeschool graduates were glad they were taught at home. www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35226

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Dispelling the Myths About Home-Schooling (5/4/2008)

When I tell people that I was home-schooled, I frequently encounter an amalgam of awe, pity and curiosity. I can see the false images materializing behind their eyes — a childhood spent idling in front of the TV in my pajamas, or spent subject to the fanciful whims of a flighty New Age mom, or spent imprisoned by my parents' ignorance and severity. These myths have alternately amused and annoyed me, but now it seems they threaten the very survival of home-schooling in California... 080504-ks-dispelling Myths About Home Schooling

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School Districts woo homeschooled: Every child in classroom means money from state (4/5/2005)

The instructor wanted to know whether Wilson, who is homeschooled alongside his three brothers, liked being taught by his mother, and why he didn't come to public school full time, instead of just for music programs. For Mark and Teckla Wilson, who are rearing their four sons in Mark Wilson's roomy childhood home in Myrtle Point, a former timber town not far from the Oregon coast, the teacher's inquiry was an eyebrow raiser. It didn't take long to discover that the teacher's questions were part of a larger effort by the Myrtle Point school district to persuade homeschooling families in the area to give the public school system a shot. seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/218788_ehomeschool05.html  050405-school Districts Woo Homeschooled

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03/11/09: NC Judge orders homeschoolers into public district classrooms--decides children need more 'focus' despite testing above grade levels by Bob Unruh, World Net Daily

A North Carolina judge has ordered three children to attend public schools this fall because the homeschooling their mother has provided over the last four years needs to be "challenged." The children, however, have tested above their grade levels – by as much as two years. On her website, family friend Robyn Williams said Mangum stated his decision was not ideologically or religiously motivated but that ordering the children into public schools would "challenge the ideas you've taught them." Williams, a homeschool mother of four herself, said, "I have never seen such injustice and such a direct attack against homeschool." "This judge clearly took personal issue with Venessa's stance on education and faith, even though her children are doing great. If her right to homeschool can be taken away so easily, what will this mean for homeschoolers state wide, or even nationally?" Williams asked. wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91397

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02/05/09: United Nations' threat: No more parental rights. Pact would ban spankings, homeschooling if children object by Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily

A United Nations human rights treaty that could prohibit children from being spanked or homeschooled, ban youngsters from facing the death penalty and forbid parents from deciding their families' religion is on America's doorstep, a legal expert warns. The left wants to make the Obama-Clinton era permanent. Treaties are a way to make it as permanent as stuff gets. It is very difficult to extract yourself from a treaty once you begin it. If they can put all of their left-wing socialist policies into treaty form, we're stuck with it even if they lose the next election. Where the child has a right fulfilled by the government, the responsibilities shift from parents to the government. The implications of all this shifting of responsibilities is that parents no longer have the traditional roles of either being responsible for their children or having the right to direct their children... wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87929

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01/12/10: Homeschoolers: Trailer-Park Denizens or Modern Heroes? by BigJournalism.com

It's one of the more laughable attacks upon homeschoolers ever concocted. And it came courtesy of a handmaiden of the mainstream media, a feminist legal theorist affiliated with the Georgetown University Law Center. Robin L. West, in an essay titled, "The Harms of Homeschooling" ... argues for greater government oversight of home schooling and takes a shot at fundamentalist Christian families who are short on mammon but big on procreation. Here's the quote: The husbands and wives in these families feel themselves to be under a religious compulsion to have large families, a homebound and submissive wife and mother who is responsible for the schooling of the children, and only one breadwinner. These families are not living in romantic, rural, self-sufficient farmhouses; they are in trailer parks, 1,000 square foot homes, houses owned by relatives, and some, on tarps in fields or parking lots. bigjournalism.com/llyman/2010/01/12/homeschoolers-trailer-park-denizens-or-modern-heroes/

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01/06/09: Home Schooling Continues to Grow by Ann Shibler

The Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics has reported that the number of home-schooled children is up 74 percent from 1999 and up 36 percent from 2003, based on 1.5 million home-based students. A 2007 survey of home-schooling parents showed that a majority educated their own offspring for moral or religious reasons. But those who home school because they want a more untraditional approach are growing, now up to a possible 32 percent of all home schoolers. And fewer home schoolers are enrolled part-time in government or private schools as well. Some who might have chosen that option are now choosing online instruction for at least some of their children's education. www.jbs.org/index.php/education-blog/4331

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Links

Washington Homeschool Organization - WHO

Serving homeschooling and homeschoolers in Washington www.washhomeschool.org/

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The Teaching Home-A Christian Magazine for Home Educators

The Teaching Home magazine was founded in 1980. Our purpose has always been to provide information, inspiration, and support to Christian home-school families and Christian home-school state and national organizations. www.teachinghome.com/

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Homeschooling Guide to Kitsap and North Mason Counties

Homeschooling is a natural choice here, an extension of the self-reliance and respect people have for each other and the world around them. So pull up a chair, grab your cocoa and browse. www.wahomeschool.com/index.html  belfairhs@aol.com

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Home School Legal Defense Association

The Home School Legal Defense Association is a non-profit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. www.hslda.org/

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