My Homeschooling Story
by Jennifer Eager My eldest daughter was four years old, and she was reading. Not memorizing a story and parroting back, not sight reading three letter words and laboriously sounding out others. Reading. She could pick up any children’s book and read it, cover...Why Homeschool?
Families have been homeschooling since the dawn of time. The reasons we do so now are varied yet we are all under the same umbrella of home educating our children. Over the years the trends change and homeschool group notice an influx at certain times of the year or...Can My Home Schooled Child Play a Band Instrument Without Going to Public School?
Your child hears a really great saxophone solo on the radio, or hears a beautiful classical flute piece on YouTube. You want to provide a good musical education for your child, but you realize that there are few to no resources for instrumental music, unless your...How American Homeschoolers Measure Up
This graphic on How American Homeschoolers Measure Up was put together by Top Masters In Education from a variety of sources. Source:...Socializing the Homeschooler
Homeschooling in New York City may seem like a rarity but it has become quite the movement. Even I, a native New Yorker, originally thought of homeschooling as something done in more rural areas. Instead, many New York families have chosen to pull their children from...School and Sleeping In
Dark, damp and chilly mornings remind me of nudging my daughter awake, telling her not to dawdle but to get ready for school. On those mornings, she’d stumble, bleary-eyed out of bed, hair a knotted mess, shoulders slumped, breathing still slow as if she could fall...When Socialization isn’t the Issue
By Kolleen Shallcross It inevitably happens at some gathering where friends and relatives are part of one big family; the issue of home education arises. Generally the subject of regulations and government homeschool oversight comes up after they know my son for some...Abnormality, Thy Name is Homeschool
by Steve Kellmeyer For most Americans, homeschooling seems rather odd. Why bother with it? We have had public and private schools with us all of our lives, as have our parents before us and their parents before them from time immemorial. Why not stick with what works?...Not Back To School: Parents Take on the Responsibility of Teaching Their Kids
By Nick Raio Overcrowded classes, standardized testing, harried or inept teachers and administrators, service cuts, chalk shortages, lack of attention to individual needs … Welcome to another school year. Now picture this: A couple of siblings sitting in their...
