So, yeah. Today was not such a good day. But to understand, perhaps we need to go back a few days. To the end of last week. When I joyfully announced we were ahead of my plans for history. And I asked mouse what she would like to learn between [...]
An exemplary piece of writing appeared in the Daily Titan, a paper run by students of California State University at Fullerton. I say exemplary because it would have been posted as an example of how not to write by my high school journalism teacher whose infamous red pen often doubled the weight of pages [...]
In a startling development in California, a special task force consisting of SWAT teams and truancy officers has been developed, virtually overnight, targeting homeschool families.
Originally thought to be a logistical nightmare, distinguishing home-schooled children from that of the public school system, officials quickly learned they could gather up a list of suspects from last year’s [...]
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February 28, 2008 – 4:04 pm
Because there is anecdotal evidence that not all teachers are providing adequate instruction in our common schools, I hereby introduce the following bill. As I did the research for this bill I was shocked not only by the fact that situations like this can and actually do occur in public schools, but that there [...]
February 18, 2008 – 7:12 am
Homeschool advocates are going to find it increasingly difficult to respond to public criticism should many more articles of this caliber be published. Since the reasoning is impeccable, I am left with no alternative but to present the eulogy for homeschooling. Goodbye, my love, goodbye.
Educators, parents, students, lend me your ears;
I come [...]
February 17, 2008 – 5:10 am
I’ve heard of this problem before. You are home, not doing anything anyway, and therefore fair game to be volunteered for every activity under the sun. I used to do it to my mom all the time. But now it is Life on the Planet who needs some answers.
Why is it [...]
December 20, 2007 – 2:32 pm
And now for a comedic interlude:
More education-related cartoons at Weapons of Math Destruction.
Via matthewktabor.com