[achilles2000]

With Pelosi and other friends of the NEA/government education industry in control in D.C., we can expect more anti-homeschooling initiatives at the state level.

[cinives]

I think it's more a matter of funding - when the schools want more money, they'll look for more bodies to count.

[Sopater]

Homeschool Ping...

[kalee]

it's a field in which the failures regularly, and astonishingly, insist that they should be able to regulate the successful.

As a "successful" homeschooler I laughed at this. Too true!

[wintertime]

Bruce Shortt, the author, uses the word "institutionalized" at least 3 times!

I love it.

Also...Teachers and principals should be held to the SAME standards of child abuse as ordinary citizens. So...ask the question. If the SS would be knocking on the door of a parent, is the SS knocking on the doors of teachers and principals when similar accidents and incidents occur.

So...if illiteracy and innumeracy would be considered child abuse for the child of a homeschooler, then it should also be considered child abuse for the principal and all the teachers who passed that child from grade to grade.

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the "other" articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. If you want on/off this list, please freepmail me. The main Homeschool Ping List by DaveLoneRanger handles the homeschool-specific articles.

[bimmer]

Fellow Homeschoolers: NFL Defensive Player of the Year is Jason Taylor who is a former homeschooler. He will be on ESPN, tomorrow, talking about his education background.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/index

Also Tim Tebow, backup QB for the Florida Gators, had a great write-up by an Ohio sports writer:

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/osusports/osusports.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/05/20070105-F1-04.html

Enjoy!

[traviskicks]

dang, that is a hard hitting article. :)