Monthly Archives: April 2008

Do our virtual lives affect our real lives?

On the discussion regarding Victoria Lindsay, the Florida teen whose classmates beat her up and videotaped it to share on Youtube, Crimson Wife of Bending the Twigs shared a video game.
In my local paper last week, there was this glowing review of a new video game called “Bully: Scholarship Edition” that I found absolutely appalling. [...]

Send in those entries! and Losing my Bookmarks

Just a reminder that entries for the Carnival of Homeschooling are due Monday evening.
Please send in your submissions via the form at BlogCarnival.
And a lesson for me:  Don’t whine.
Computer issues are annoying.  You do not really realize how much you use the computer throughout the day until that luxury is not available.  How many times [...]

We’re from the DOE and we’re here to help

Homeschoolers in New Hampshire are currently fighting SB337, a bill which would require them to file a curriculum plan to the state at the beginning of the school year, a provision which was just dropped from the law in 2006. The bill passed the senate, and on Tuesday, April 15, homeschoolers packed the [...]

Researching homeschooling, we need a new direction

Resolution 369, calling to “examine policy changes that should be pursued in order to provide further guidance and oversight of Nebraska’s home schools,” has been referred to the education committee.  Ironically, the state of Nebraska is not the only entity looking to study homeschoolers.  Homeschooling families who use standardized testing through BJU Press, Family Learning [...]

Seeking submissions

I will be hosting the Carnival of Homeschooling on April 22!  Please send your homeschooling related posts to me via the handy submission form at BlogCarnival.
And in case you are wondering, my computer is all better now.  My husband got called to work before he could finish, but stayed up when he got home to [...]

Technical Difficulties

Well, my unintentional break from almost all things computer has been sort of nice, but frustrating.  You don’t realize how much you use the computer for daily tasks until you do not have that option.
Our computer has been acting up and finally stopped working altogether yesterday.  My dear husband is working on it and hopefully [...]

Free gardening unit study

I recently dug up an old unit study I did on gardening and developing Christian character and shared it on a couple of forums I am active on.  Now converted to a pdf file with one correction, I offer my free gardening unit to anyone who is interested.
So long as my name and link [...]

Videotaped victim to be homeschooled

Sixteen year old Victoria Lindsay apparently posted some things to her MySpace account about her classmates that weren’t very nice.  This “cyberbullying” left the virtual world when the “victims” showed up at her house and took turns beating her up.  For the camera since they intended on posting the entire ordeal to YouTube.
According to her [...]

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