I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.
One of the many wonderful things about homeschooling is that I am constantly learning alongside my daughter.
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.
I do a kind of homeschooling where some of it's on the computer and some of it's classes around the city. So sometimes I'll have a class in the morning or do school at home.
Homeschooling represents another perfectly valid educational option.
Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.
Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.
I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.