March 23, 2008 – 12:59 am
This week has been a rough week. Last Friday, my daughter filled a toilet with blood and since then my heart has been heavy with worry. A week later, I sat in the emergency room watching the doctors take her blood again after several bouts of bleeding and dizziness possibly associated with blood [...]
Yippee! We Nebraska homeschoolers have our own holiday! Can we take the week off? Or, more fun yet, can I write a curriculum for use in the public schools? It would be my honor to help our schools honor this portion of the proclamation:
…I do hereby urge all citizens to take [...]
On March 17, Stephen Downes, a senior researcher with the National Research Council who also writes and speaks extensively on education issues, published a brief entry on the court ruling in California in which he essentially equated homeschooling with abuse. Quite a few commenters objected, and I dedicated an entry to the false assumption [...]
I’ll respond in more detail tonight when I have time, but Stephen Downes responds to the criticism of his stance equating homeschooling with child abuse. Response is made difficult since his presentation is in video format, but since he presents all of the main public criticisms of homeschooling in one session, I’ll try to [...]
March 18, 2008 – 10:48 pm
Sounds like a police state.
Crane’s detailed external security plan already includes blockades that divert all traffic but buses from in front of the school; CTA buses at the school waiting for students as they exit; school security guards at each bus stop and Crane staffers on every corner; 10 to 14 police squad cars that [...]
March 18, 2008 – 12:52 am
Where to begin?
An interesting debate has exploded into the mainstream as a California appellate ruling that bans homeschooling by uncredentialed parents. My own criticism of homeschooling has alwas [sic] been in line with the ruling by the court: it is a form of child abuse to subject children to an education at the [...]
The Arizona Republic published an interesting editorial yesterday taking a look at the problems caused by judges meddling with education and the growing fixation on credentials as a measure of teacher quality.
More people are beginning to recognize that credentials are not an adequate measure of teaching ability. Maybe soon they will realize that parenthood [...]
Welcome to the Carnival of Principled Government, where we take a monthly peek into a concept that seems a bit of an oxymoron these days. Last week, a couple of professors in California wondered what children could possibly learn from their parents who were questioning a court decision on internet forums. Apparently, they didn’t like [...]
Principled Discovery is a place to stop and discuss news and information related to faith, family and particularly education. Pour yourself a cup of tea and join the conversation! 
