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 September 11: What Our Children Need to KnowSeptember 2002 ***This is a partial HTML rendering of a PDF report that is available in full at http://www.edexcellence.net/Sept11/September11.pdf .  Introduction For many years to come, Americans will debate the causes and implications of the attacks on New York City and Washington on September 11, 2001, as well as the aborted attack that led to the Pennsylvania crash of United Airlines flight 93. These comprised far too traumatic an event to set aside immediately after it happened, like the latest automobile pile-up on the Interstate. We will chew on it, agonize about it,...

This is our own corner of Free Republic where homeschoolers can discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to things we find on the internet, and vent some more.

This is our own corner of Free Republic where homeschoolers can discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to things we find on the internet, and vent some more.

This is our own corner of Free Republic where homeschoolers can discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to things we find on the internet, and vent some more.

This is our own daily section of Free Republic where homeschoolers can discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to things we find on the internet, and vent some more.

This is our own corner of Free Republic where homeschoolers can discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to things we find on the internet, and vent some more.

What Will Stop It?Lesson #1 en Route to the Gulagby John Loeffler, Steel on Steel Radio Program Americans have enjoyed so much freedom for so long, they have forgotten that freedom is a fluke in the history of the world; not the norm. Our freedoms were hard-won over hundreds of years of human tears. The current view that freedoms are somehow self-sustaining and "obvious" ignores a primary rule of the political universe, well established in human history: governments and those in them always gravitate toward power, money and control; power for themselves, confiscating money and property from their people, who...

The public education monopoly can't stand the thought of "unqualified" parents teaching their own children. That is why they are cracking down on home schooling, even as a new study shows that thousands of public school teachers themselves are shamefully unqualified to educate the nation's students. In California, the state's hostile education department is tightening the screws on enterprising parents who have taken the initiative and turned their family rooms into classrooms. State Deputy Superintendent Joanne Mendoza wrote in a July 16 memo to all school employees that without official teaching credentials, these parents no longer can file required paperwork...

Found on a 21st CENTURY TEACHER APPLICANT Let me see if I have this right. You want me to go into that room with all those kids and fill their every waking moment with a love for learning. Not only that, I am supposed to instill a sense of pride in their ethnicity, behaviorally modify disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse and T-shirt messages. I am to fight the war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, check their backpacks for guns and raise their self-esteem. I'm to teach them patriotism, good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, how and...

Statement by Sandra Feldman, President, American Federation of Teachers on Lesson Plans for September 11 On this very important anniversary in America’s history, children should have a factual understanding of September 11. Lesson plans should be based on the facts, including what is undisputed about the terrorists who are to blame for the attack on America and whose values are anathema to ours. Unfortunately, many well-meaning lesson plans avoid explicit judgment about the aims and character of the terrorists of 9/11, and AFT believes that anything that implicitly seems to blame America for these attacks is wrong. Of course it...

Getting into the college of their choice used to present a problem for homeschooled kids. Witness Rosie Lawler of Lancaster, Mass., who likes to joke that being homeschooled throughout her high-school years meant "I was the valedictorian of my class. I had the highest SATs. I was the most popular girl in school, the prettiest and the president of every club we had." When Lawler applied to Princeton University, the admissions office replied with a short letter that said Princeton deemed her application incomplete because she hadn't included a transcript of her high-school grades. And never mind that her...

I have been thinking lately it would be nice to have a thread (maybe even a forum later?) for the homeschooling families, because you know how many of us there are. This would not replace us pinging each other with all the great articles we find. It would be a place where we could discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to cool things we find on the internet, and vent some more. I'm sure we all have found other sites with forums that we use, but since FReepers are such...

<p>In a few weeks, students will return to their public, parochial and private schools with stacks of school supplies and new shoes. But thousands of Missouri's children will not. They will remain at home, learning with their parent as their teacher.</p>