A Hard Lesson on Home Schools The truth and reality of how home schooling can change young lives opened up for us a new avenue full of hope and opportunities. - Chris Banescu, July 14, 2004 [Acton Institute]
Teacher for a Day So the chance to sit down with them during a real school day and supervise the process of learning in a homeschool setting was a rare treat, and something I would wish on every homeschool dad, who often feels that professional responsibilities shut him out of the schooling process. - Jeffrey Tucker, November 15, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]
Of Spelling Bees and Homeschool Demagoguery Homeschooling’s greatest value is not found in academic achievement. It is found in liberty. If my son never locates Lop Nur on a map, if my daughter never correctly spells succedaneum, what does that matter? In our over-politicized, propaganda-dominated world, they have escaped the dead hand of government. Their minds are free. - Cathy Cuthbert, June 10, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
Can a Feminist Homeschool Her Child In a peaceful mutiny against the quality and content of government education, a growing number of parents are choosing to stay at home to teach their children one-on-one. - Wendy McElroy, February 2002 [FEE]
School's Out Get ready for the new age of individualized education. - Daniel H. Pink, October 2001 [REASON]
The World's Most Unselfish Act Some folks homeschool their children because they exalt the individuality of their offspring and they take parental responsibility seriously. - Karen De Coster, September 5, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Letter From a Homeschooling Mom My children started school last week – at the kitchen table. - Laura Haire, August 30, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
One Solution for Education’s Woes: Home Schooling When Glenn Woiceshyn saw that his 9-year-old son was rapidly losing his love of learning, he decided to do something about it: home-school him. - Chris Wolski, September 27, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]
Why Homeschool? or Education Doesn't Have to be Boring My own interest in homeschooling started when I was in public high school. Throughout grade school, and continuuing on through junior high and high school, I was bored with school. There was far too much repetition. - Manfred B. Zysk, December 20, 1999 [LewRockwell.com]
Homeschooling and the Myth of Socialization One of the silliest and most annoying comments made to homeschooling parents is, "Aren't you concerned about how your child will be able to socialize with others?". What is being implied here is that the homeschooled child is some kind of introverted misfit who cannot relate to other people, children, and the outside world. In reality, most of the homeschooled children that I have known and met are not only outgoing, but polite and respectful, too. - Manfred B. Zysk, December 16, 1999 [LewRockwell.com]
Homeschooling: The Best Education Reform Homeschooling was the way the Founding Fathers received their education. Today’s homeschooling movement continues to excel by producing literate students with minimal government interference at a fraction of the cost of any government program. - Isabel Lyman, March 24, 1998 [CATO]
Sacrificial Lambs ...it was hugely disappointing to read that the Republican Party has successfully co-opted much of the homeschool movement. - Korrin Weeks Grigg, September 17, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]
Homeschoolers barred from religious materials Homeschooling parents in a Canadian province have been ordered to stop using religious-based materials or other "unofficial" resources when they teach their children at home. - April 24, 2004 [WorldNetDaily]
Bill forces shots on all children Homeschoolers fight state legislation that criminalizes parents who object. - Ron Strom, February 23, 2004 [WorldNetDaily]
The Dark Side of CBS In over 20 years of advocacy on behalf of homeschooling, HSLDA has seen lots of negative stories regarding home education. However, nothing compares with this series on CBS in terms of distorting the truth about home education. - October 23, 2003 [Home School Legal Defense Association]
Taking CBS to school People are defecting from the government schools in droves. The education monopoly and the statist news media see this as a major threat. - Jim Babka, October 20, 2003 [razormouth.com]
California's War on Homeschoolers It's an embarrassment, given that public schools in California spend more than $9,000 a year to educate a single pupil, while parents spend a tiny portion of that amount. - Steven Greenhut, February 2003 [FEE]
Crusading to Keep Kids Clueless: Public Education Monopoly Cracks Down on Home Schooling As I've said many times before, there's nothing like stiff competition to bring out the worst in government. Nowhere does this prove more true than in the battle between home-schooling parents and public school bureaucrats. - Michelle Malkin, October 2, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Education Tax Racket "So there’s this guy named Ray Simon. He’s director of the Arkansas Department of Education, and he’s got a complaint about the boom in home schooling. The way he sees it, this trend is a threat to our, or at least his, way of life." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., August 24, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Home-Schooling Under Siege There's nothing like stiff competition to bring out the worst in government. Nowhere does this prove more true than in the battle between home-schooling parents and public school bureaucrats. - Michelle Malkin, May 21, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Coming War Against Homeschooling "With the final results of the 73rd annual National Spelling Bee in, the din from the public education establishment will soon be deafening. This year the all three top places were won by children who were home-schooled. The big winner, George Abraham Thampy, is only 12-years-old." - Matthew Robinson, June 8, 2000 [CNS Commentary]
Home Schooling and Histrionics According to conservative estimates, home-schooled students account for only about 1 percent of the school-aged population. Their accomplishments are quite impressive, but some people are nonetheless suspicious and intolerant of this successful private education practice. - Isabel Lyman, May 31, 2000 [CATO]
Organize This! The right of parents to raise their children is a natural right, and the attempt by the educational elites to take it away constitutes a ghastly intervention in the moral and legal sovereignty of the family. Homeschoolers understand that better than anyone, and they are dedicated to fighting for that right. By threatening to take away their independence, Clinton has thrust his hand into a wasp’s nest. - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., May 8, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]
How Government and Public Schools Subvert Homeschooling and Private Schools Once again, failed public school systems are looking to attract more students and tax money, by taking over more successful private schools. With their past record, this will be another doomed government program. A better idea is to eliminate taxes for public education, and allow parents to let their children be educated as they see fit. - Manfred B. Zysk, January 24, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]
Home-schooled 'truant' faces charges A 17-year-old Nebraska student, whose parents say the state's 'ludicrous' bureaucracy has attempted to force their learning-disabled son into a 'lock-down' for delinquent children, rather than let the parents continue to home-school him -- now faces probation violation charges in addition to truancy." - Julie Foster, September 17, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Why Home Schooling Thrives "...home schooling sends a message to the elites that there are some things, namely children, that are not owned or controlled by the government. Until compulsory schooling laws are completely scrapped, it will continue to be a crucial means for providing the quality education that public schools have failed to provide." - Mark Brandly, August 1997 [Mises]
U.S. homeschoolers beat Oxford debaters - Four homeschooled students at Patrick Henry College went to Oxford University in December to take part in a debate with some of Oxford's best student debaters... - Samuel L. Blumenfeld, January 22, 2005 [WorldNetDaily]
Homeschools work: study A national study released earlier this year debunks the popular myth that homeschooled children are somehow stuck at home all day. - T. Bath, September 6, 2004 [canadaeast.com]
School bells in more homes Those opting to educate their own children find strength in numbers. - Peter Schworm, December 28, 2003 [Boston Globe]
Young Organist Still Climbing At 16, this Lakeland prodigy has started college and continues to grow musically. - Cary McMullen, December 26, 2003 [The Ledger]
Wichita school team wins at Texas science tournament In a competition of more than 60 teams and seven states, the Wichita Homeschool Student Team won first place. - Lainie Mazzullo, December 4, 2003 [Wichita Business Journal]
Civil War Weekend coming to Liendo One of the things the McDonald family has recently discovered as a homeschool family is the fun of dressing up and reenacting events from history. - Robin McDonald, November 20, 2003 [Waller County News Citizen]
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Home Is Where the School Is To find reliable employees, Chick-fil-A prefers to tap what it believes is a unique source of talent--high school- and college-age homeschoolers--young people who have been educated at home rather than sent to public or private schools. - Robert J Grossman, November 2001 [HR Magazine]
Homeschoolers are an increasingly diverse crowd Home-based education has long since shed its stereotype as the province of religiously conservative parents who don't like public school culture. The typical profile of a family is still white, two-parent, and better educated and more religious than average. But many people who don't fit that bill are opting out of the school system as well. Their growing presence - and the resulting diversity of viewpoints - are challenging a once-small movement to figure out how inclusive it can be. - Amanda Paulson, October 10, 2000 [Christian Science Monitor]
12-Year-Old Enters College as Youngest Student Ever at Calif. College The 12-year-old started her first day at a four-year college Thursday with 14 units of physiology, chemistry and Chinese...'Home schooling was a big advantage because you can go at your own pace,' she said. - Audrey Cooper, September 29, 2000 [ABC News]
Home schoolers score highest on ACT Home-schooled students have out-performed publicly and privately educated students in the ACT assessment test -- formerly known as the American College Testing Program -- according to official ACT reports." - Julie Foster, August 22, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Home schoolers sweep 'Bee' "The top three spellers in this year's competition were all home-schooled." - Jon E. Dougherty, June 2, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Homeschooled students take unorthodox route to become top college candidates Her combined Scholastic Aptitude Test score was 1,560 out of a possible 1,600. She'd received the highest score -- five -- in advanced placement exams: U.S. history, literature, psychology, French and English language, a writing course. - Pamela R. Winnick, May 01, 2000 [Pittsburgh Post Gazette]
Online charts: PA homeschoolers score well on 1999 SATs According to statistics reported to Pennsylvania Homeschoolers by the College Board, homeschooled students appear to have an edge over scoring well above Pennsylvania's school-educated students. - May 01, 2000 [Pittsburgh Post Gazette]
Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998 One major finding: "Home school student achievement test scores are exceptionally high. The median scores for every subtest at every grade (typically in the 70th to 80th percentile) are well above those of public and Catholic/Private school students." - March 23, 1999 [EPAA]
Data: Home Rule A recent comparison of over 5,400 home school students and their public school counterparts highlights two interesting findings: 1) On average, regardless of race or socioeconomic status, the nation's roughly 1 million home schoolers scored more than 30 points higher than public school students on standardized tests. 2) There was no correlation between the level of government regulation and the level of achievement for K-12 home schoolers. - Nick Gillespie, August-September 1997 [REASON]
Solid Evidence to Support Home Schooling Public-school defenders will undoubtedly chafe at our test scores, arguing that public schools have more minority students than home schools do. But the study quickly dispels the myth that minorities cannot achieve as well as whites. - March 5, 1997 [Wall Street Journal]
