Homeschooling in the United States has transformed education for millions of families, offering tailored instruction and strong academic outcomes. Yet, despite this progress, homeschool graduates continue to face unnecessary barriers in accessing opportunities that their traditionally schooled peers take for granted. However, H.R. 6392, the Home School Graduation Recognition Act, sponsored by Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., looks to rectify this.
THE BOOK FOR AMERICA'S 250th!
FINDING OUR WORDS: Words That Made America is a collection of some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since the nation’s founding.
It is intended for all ages: for advanced readers to enjoy in leisure learning, or aloud in groups with all levels—even beginning readers. It may be used exclusively or in conjunction with other works for the study of language arts, U.S. history, civics, statesmanship, and elocution.
From the time I started my adventure in homeschooling over a decade ago, I have wanted to collect some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since our founding — eloquent and soaring words, rooted in the wisdom of the ages. The desire emerged from reading those great words of American history aloud with my daughter, contrasting them with the words we heard daily all around us, and realizing that something priceless had been lost.
American education, not long ago the envy of the world, has become a corrupt, bloated, and failed institution. This has been happening for over a century and there is no sign of recovery. The loss can be summed up in one sentence: We have lost our words. We no longer read the greatest spoken and written words of all time in the fields of history, literature, poetry, philosophy, and politics, and so we have lost the understanding of words that our ancestors lived by. More critically, however, we have lost what those words have represented. //
Third, when we read extraordinary works, we encounter words which we might be able to understand in context but not define. To build our vocabulary, we need not to dread the “hard” words but look forward with hope to acquainting ourselves with them.
For this subject, the English word “vocabulary” is lackluster. I prefer the German word for vocabulary: Wortschatz. Wort means “word” and Schatz means “treasure”… word-treasure.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and words are a greater treasure than diamonds and pearls. Do not leave your treasure scattered among the pages. Gather your words as you go and store them in your treasure chest. //
Including the entire sentence has done more than just help us to remember the word; it has shown the word at the pinnacle of its career. It is exasperating and essentially a waste of time to use pre-made vocabulary card sets that usually cast strong and noble vocabulary words into the dungeon of absurd, illogical, and demeaning sentences. Adorn your own word-treasure cards with sentences from the greatest works of all time. //
Fourth, elocution was once a standard part of school curricula. It has not been so for the last hundred years or more, and we hear the results all around us. Finding Our Words is not an elocution course, but a few tips can get us started. When having children read aloud, encourage them to incorporate a manner of expression appropriate to the text. Encourage them to project their voices. A favorite word we have used in reading the speeches in this book is “stentorian.” In the days before microphones and speakers, a stentorian voice was required if one wished to be heard.
There are many ways to measure the success of education, and while money and education are often good metrics, they cannot be the only metric we use. //
Homeschooling has always looked a little different from traditional education. That’s sort of the point. No two children are alike, so why should their education be? However, this freedom for the student has meant frustration for the scholar, as homeschooling’s multifaceted nature makes rigorous academic study challenging. //
Different values give rise to different outcomes. Based on the data, it seems that long-term homeschoolers do not value high pay and further education nearly as much as they value faith and family. It is entirely possible that the lower income, employment rates, and educational attainment reflect choice, not capacity. Employment and income could be lower for long-term homeschool graduates because they choose to forego a second income and have one parent stay home with their kids. //
The outcomes for homeschool graduates are as myriad as the methods of and reasons for homeschooling. It would be the peak of foolishness to claim that someone’s education was not successful because they do not meet arbitrary metrics, particularly when they may not hold those metrics in high esteem. Rather, we must determine if an individual is meeting their own values and goals, not those set for them by statisticians. High pay cannot fix depression, and college degrees do not equate to community.
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Anecdotal: my kids have been homeschooled for a month now.
One child is a diagnosed ASD2 who had a full time aide in class.
The other child is a normal, thriving straight-A student.
Guess which child benefited from homeschooling to the extent he’s already doing math two grades ahead.
Homeschool parents would face fines, misdemeanor charges and even jail time if they do not report themselves to local public school officials, under a new proposal from Illinois Democrats.
Parents also would be required to provide public school officials with a “portfolio” of their children’s work at any time, at any interval and frequency, until that portfolio meets the public school’s satisfaction.
The bill, dubbed the “Homeschool Act,” requires parents to report themselves in writing to local school officials starting in 2026. Parents who do not will be considered truant. They face Class C misdemeanor charges, which are punishable by up to 30 days in jail. They also face fines and lengthy hearings forcing them to comply with the Act. Under this proposal, parents also face investigations by state child welfare officials. //
Costa Howard and her homeschool-hating colleagues have peddled a mistruth that homeschoolers are more likely to abuse their children. Per an Illinois Public Radio story: “An advocate for more homeschool regulation argued there is a link between homeschooling and abuse and neglect that often goes unnoticed.” (Yet this so-called “advocate” has failed to provide credible statistical data to that effect.)
Costa Howard continuously cites in interviews the tragic story of “L.J.,” whom she claims was abused because Illinois allows parents to homeschool their children without obtrusive government involvement. But in this sad story, as well as other examples cited by Costa Howard, the children in question weren’t actually homeschooled. Their parents did no actual educating at home and instead were simply crummy, abusive parents. But all of these children were under the surveillance of state welfare officials, who left them in abusive homes for a year or more.
Magazine Calls for Federal Regulations of Homeschoolers - Otherwise Known As a Conservative Database
Golden Rule
4 hours ago
German owned magazine since 1986. Germany does not allow homeschooling.
anon-055q Golden Rule
2 hours ago
In Germany, any "rights" that citizens have are bestowed by Daddy Government.
Indeed. In that respect, the term "Fatherland" assumes an almost literal meaning!
This has, alas, been a leitmotif of German social thought for centuries.
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) devastated Germany. The aftermath of that brutal conflict witnessed the widespread development of political thought that emphasized the need for a strong state to protect against, inter alia, the prospect of rampant invasions by foreign armies slaughtering the local populations and plundering the countryside.
This was a central theme of Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan", and directly inspired, (albeit, from afar) by the horrific events of that conflict.
That war had profound effect on German thought - starting in its immediate aftermath. The Saxon jurist, Samuel Pufendorf, strongly influenced by Hobbes, wrote in, "The Elements of Essential Jurisprudence" of the empirically demonstrated need for a strong political authority to acquire and maintain the military and financial means of protecting the polity from such depredations by foreign powers and actors. This, in turn, provided the justification for royal absolutism of the monarch over the rest of society - to the detriment, alas, of the status of individual rights that have been the basis of (especially, but not exclusively, American political thought.
The idea of individual rights that could be legitimately claimed against the desires and interior the state, has, thus, never really taken hold in Germany - even with the advent of the Republic of Germany after World War II.
And,I haven't even touched upon other historical factors that further buttressed authoritarian political thought in Germany, such as the Reformation.
Unfortunately, Martin Luther was a servant believer in absolute submission to state authority. This, ultimately, also had the unfortunate effect of rendering the Lutheran Church largely subservient to the monarch and state - in sharp contrast to the American experience.
All of these (and more) military, political, religious, legal, and cultural developments in Germany eventually combi ed to produce a social milieu where the author of the state was almost invariably presumed to be dispositive over the preparative of the individual.
Given that, is is not surprising (unfortunately) that the rights of parents with respect to their children's education have been historically weak in Germany.
And more's the pity!
Magazine Calls for Federal Regulations of Homeschoolers - Otherwise Known As a Conservative Database
In a June 17 newsletter, "Scientific American" Magazine, based on numbers from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), suggested that federal regulations be put on homeschooling. NCES shows that almost three percent of American students are homeschooled, roughly 1.5 million kids. But it is not the call for federal regulations that is the most disturbing thing about Scientific American's suggestion; the best part is that they also suggest that parents of homeschooled kids "undergo a background check." First, just one question: What does this have to do with "science?" //
Fatherhood Reforged @fathersreforged
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When they want to regulate homeschooling,
what they're really regulating is parenting.
When they say,
"Homeschool kids need to be checked on",
what they're really saying is,
"Parents can't be trusted with their kids".
6:00 PM · Jun 18, 2024 //
What better way to create a comprehensive database of conservatives and be able to know exactly where they are than to require them to undergo a background check? What sort of information would be required from a background check? Political affiliations, ownership of firearms? Imagine what the Biden administration would do with a database of conservatives — think January 6, and we already have a pretty good idea. //
Robert A Hahn
4 hours ago
Leftists wreck everything they touch. This used to be such a wonderful magazine. It was so scientific that much of the content went right over my head.
As Becky says, this article isn't science. This is leftist BS dressed up in a science suit. These bastiges did the same thing to Science News, which was also a wonderful little magazine until it turned into Al Gore's Climate Bugle. I hate these people. They wreck everything. //
MCPR
4 hours ago
Homeschooling succeeds BECAUSE it’s not regulated. Everything the government regulates turns into poop. “It takes a State to raise a child, comrade. Now stand aside while we indoctrinate your children.”
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