Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

Barry Lynn, host of the radio show Culture Shocks interviewed us today. In a forty minute segment, Lynn disputed the notion that people can homeschool without teaching credentials, insisted that public schools are doing just fine for most kids, and challenged homeschoolers who don’t like something about their school system to stay in the system and change it instead of homeschooling.

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The California appeals court that, in February, ruled that parents do not have a right to homeschool reversed itself today and unanimously ruled that they do. One attorney close to the case phoned us today and said with relief:
“The unthinkable has happened — we won. Private homeschooling is on a better footing [...]

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Sometimes it’s just good to be alive. First, I read last week about graphic novels profiling the candidates, i.e. comic books by some of the top artists depicting McCain and Obama as superheroes: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/07/mccain-and-obam.html
Now we have Dover’s paperdolls:
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-mccain—obama-election-paper-dolls.html
Does this bridge the gender gap or create one? At least we can’t say that we [...]

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Earlier this year, a California appellate court ruled that parents without teaching credentials had no right to homeschool in that state, then, a few weeks later, vacated the decision and said it would re-hear the case. With the rehearing scheduled for June 23, suspense is building over what the court intends to [...]

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The Parade Magazine Intelligence Report on June 1 offered a brief item about the California appellate court decision denying that California parents have a right to homeschool. Parade quoted only one source in the piece, and that source suggested that homeschoolers aren’t much concerned with a good education:
“If upheld, the California ruling will [...]

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