Archive for the ‘Homeschooling in the News’ Category
Exactly!
Snipped from SpunkyHomeschool blog:
How do you make unschooling illegal? Do you write a statute into each state saying “unschooling” is illegal. Well what is unschooling? Is it those who don’t use textbooks but are guided by the family’s interests and the parents’ principles? Or is those who don’t use textbooks and the children select all [...]
April 21, 2010
Tags: freedom, unschooling Posted in: Homeschooling in the News 
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Why all homeschoolers should be miffed with the way ABC News treated unschoolers
For those of you not in the know:
Lovely, no?
Whether or not you are a radical unschooler, you should find this piece of “news” presented to a national audience worthy of your outrage.
A small clip of only two radical unschooling families to measure all of unschooling? Lame, shoddy reporting. Shame on you, ABC News.
If the talking [...]
April 20, 2010
Tags: freedom, unschooling Posted in: Homeschooling in the News One Comment
German homeschoolers seek freedom in Canada
They hid from German authorities, fled to Denmark and sought safety in Canada. All this for a chance to freely educate their children at home. Now the German family will take their cause one step further when they appear before the Immigration and Refugee board in Alberta Tuesday to request asylum [...]
March 23, 2010
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Homeschooling threatened in Sweden
The government of Sweden is taking a hard line against homeschoolers, proposing a bill that will only allow home education under “extraordinary circumstances,” reports the Home School Legal Defense Association. The bill is expected to pass in the Swedish parliament, following a review by the Supreme Administrative Court, and will allow [...]
March 23, 2010
Tags: homeschooling, Sweden Posted in: Homeschooling in the News One Comment
