“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
I seriously think teacher’s union representative on the California homeschool case who was interviewed by NPR’s “All Things Considered” was altered — chemically (or herbally). A sample of his statement: Dude, yeah, it’s cool, you need training, man. You make us take all these tests and do all this stuff just to teach some punk […]
Do you ever just read something and cringe for the author? This “excellent resource on home-schooling” is just so embarrassing it hurts. Poor Katie Criss, or rather, poor Katie Criss’s grammar, logic, and writing teachers. There is so much to write about the horridness of this article. In addition to the poor grammar and sad […]
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has “upheld the validity of what essentially amounted to a strip search of a 13-year-old Safford school girl to see if she had drugs.” The drugs? Ibuprofen. Well, okay then. Fortunately, the 9th Circuit is the most overturned federal appeals court, so there is hope that sanity will prevail. […]
This article on a seventeen year old who has started her own webpage design company is fascinating. Ashley Qualls is impressive an impressive young woman: she’s self-taught, successful and grounded. She taught herself about web design at the ripe age of nine, and although she’s made more than a million dollars, “I don’t need $2,000 […]
Tomorrow is the first day of school at our house. No, that’s not right. On Monday we will start our lessons. That’s not it, either. On September 3, we will resume slightly more structured lessons for the older children. That’s better. Or is it? Home education renders useless a lot of the terms that are […]