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Knowledge Quest is offering a free download of their 80-page “Star-Spangled State Book.”
Enclosed is a coupon for $5 off the printed edition, and they also offer a workbook which can allow you to use the set as a full-year US Geography curriculum.
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I heard an relevant proverb yesterday regarding fatherhood and teaching. It’s an old English proverb:
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
My wife and I have had interesting conversations with a pool monitor at our community pool. I guess coming in with 5 kids aged 7 and under is rather conspicuous. And this particular pool monitor is a substitute teacher.
The pool monitor (I’ll refer to her as “Peggy” as in that laughable TV substitute, Peggy Hill) [...]
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HSLDA posted a report of a family in Missouri that got a visit from a zoning enforcement officer and the police. Allegedly, their family was so large that they were in violation of the city zoning ordinances.
The family called HSLDA, who in turn called the zoning official. Apparently the visit was without cause, for there [...]
Parade Magazine’s Intelligence Report is featuring a poll inspired by the California state appeals court ruling that home education is illegal unless the parents have reaching credentials. In fact, they said “parents do not have a constitutional right to home-school their children.”
Obviously the poor judge went to public school. Public schools didn’t exist, nor did [...]
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| Paul Nowak is a second-generation homeschooler, helping his wife educate their 5 children at home.
He is also a freelance writer and publisher, author of The Way of the Christian Samurai, and staff writer for LifeNews.com. |
