“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Let the children play
This is not a regular Fine Arts Friday post. I’m not looking at a particular artist or composer, a method for studying nature, or why or how to incorporate handicrafts. It’s really not fine artsy at all, but it does encapsulate Charlotte Mason’s belief that “Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere […]
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Common Core and equality
(This post contains affiliated links.) A lot has been said about Common Core, from the problems with the standards themselves to the dangers of data mining. While it doesn’t directly affect homeschool students, the data collection and shifting standardized tests to common core standards will probably have some impact on homeschoolers. For me, one of the […]
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Back to school, legally!
Or back to whatever it is we call this thing. “Back to more structured educational schedule, with less lounging about?” Today, my Washington Times Communities article is on educators and educational fair use of copyrighted material. And homeschooler, if you think this doesn’t affect you, you’re wrong. Listen, you might think our intellectual property rights […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Switching Seasons
This week we have no end of year events. No Scouts or concerts or parties. It’s all done. So you know what that means, don’t you? Yes, Summer Softball and camp preparation begin in earnest. Sprite has four days of softball in a row, I have four hours of training for camp, and the kiddos all […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Processing info edition
This past weekend, I went to Freedom Works’ BlogCon. I thought about canceling several times in the weeks leading up to the event, because what does my wee little blog have in common with the big political blogger attending this event? And on Mother’s Day weekend. And the Arlington Homeschool Book Fair. (I’d miss Miller […]
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The problem with the factory setting
We are the brand of homeschoolers that have permanently rejected the public school model. There are homeschoolers who prefer homeschooling to public schools, but make their educational choices year by year. For a variety of reasons and a couple of big ones, we’ve ruled out public education entirely for our family. I have two big […]
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Does this seem nuts to you?
One of the things homeschoolers hear often is that we are sheltered to the point of being unable to deal with reality. Really? By what measure? Because these don’t seem like examples of people who have a grasp on reality: A girl was yelled out by her teacher in front of her classmates for having a […]
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An Amoral Education
The outrage du jour is news from a small Texas town of shenanigans going on in the local high school: students dressing up in burkas, calling the 9/11 terrorists “freedom fighters”, and the Tea Party patriots (of 1773 — not the new guys) terrorists. I saw the story posted on facebook by several of my […]
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Mad enough to post
I’m at a homeschool convention, trying to get our act together for the new year, and generally causing off-line mayhem. But this has ticked me off enough to rant. The drop out rate may be as high as 30%. (Shouldn’t that be a easily verifiable number? You’re educators, can’t you count?) The Texas Education Commissioner […]
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I had this teacher!
In eighth grade science, I had this teacher! Maybe it was his cousin.
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