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Thursday, January 18th, 2007Livia Soprano: not a very good mother
Please follow this link to read my parenting manifesto, which seems to have changed url possibly due to blog maintenance- apologies. This is a later related post…
Rebel Dad has a cool blog going there. He started collecting parenting manifestos after Hugh Macleod invented his manifesto write-in thingy, has a [...]
educational stone-casting
Thursday, January 4th, 2007More homeschooling ignoramuses pronounce about its perceived failings in this great (and funny) article (via Daryl Cobranchi):
Evidently, Bounds and his Clarion-Ledger cheerleaders think that Mississippi parents are removing their children from Mississippi’s government schools just so that they can deny them an education at home.
Interestingly, neither Bounds nor the Clarion-Ledger point to any evidence [...]
“unschooling”
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006If you want to know more about this approach to home-based educating, here’s a good article suitable for non-experts.
Here are my cautionary provisos for the uninitiated:
1. “Unschooling” doesn’t mean neglecting or spoiling your kids. It’s a one-word summary of the idea that what we call schooling is unrelated to actual learning, and can even hamper [...]
proof that only school education works
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006This is old news, but I saw Jeremy Irons on TV the other day and it was the first time I clocked that they are just releasing Eragon, the Hollywood Movie based on the book written by a 19 year-old homeschooler:
Like so many homeschoolers, Christopher tackles projects by educating himself. He read several books [...]
greetings, and link to me (and- warning- some more slight moaning about bad attitudes towards homeschooling)
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006Well, we’re back, all in one piece and currently engaged in a big fight with the heavily-moulting last-minute Christmas tree, which must have been sitting in the Home Depot yard since mid-November because all the other trees in America are sold out by this time, as I now know, and also with the icicle fairy [...]
socialization and homeschooling
Thursday, December 7th, 2006This effectively sums up why I now regard most anti-homeschooling arguments as nothing more than bigotry (ignorance + dismissive negative judgements). Tammy provides all the links with all the explanations and information anyone deranged with worry for the welfare of someone else’s poor disadvantaged homeschooled kids could possibly need. But anyone who can’t be bothered [...]
teach yourself the arts?
Monday, December 4th, 2006That stuff I’ve been saying about schools- it’s not just about schools. There are some terrible, silly university courses these days, that will waste thousands of your dollars or pounds and give you little or no learning in return (a degree, perhaps, but aren’t those two a penny these days? Especially in the arts, people [...]
more good homeschooling stuff
Thursday, November 30th, 2006Good to see the esteemed Doc Searls writing about homeschooling today (via Jackie Danicki). I guess it’s going to be a long long time till people lose their fear and suspicion of homeschooling, stop repeating the same old objections that have been proven false for so many years, and just take on board the reality [...]
homeschooling yay
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Nice one via Daryl Cobranchi today:
Will Smith says he and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith homeschool their children because the most valuable things he learned he didn’t get from school. “The date of the Boston Tea Party does not matter,” Smith told Reader’s Digest. “I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I [...]
homeschooling redux
Thursday, July 13th, 2006I have not been homeschooling this past year; Original Son and Daughter, who have an English dad, have been going to a progressive school in the UK (which is, to my mind, far more like homeschooling than any educational institution I have ever attended, taught at or heard of – a good thing) and Extra [...]
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