The Bitter Homeschooler's Wish List
Please stop asking us if it's legal. If it is - and it is - it's insulting to imply that we're criminals. And if we were criminals, would we admit it?
California parents arrested -- Caught Home-schooling their children without a teaching credential
Spoof: "Overall, we netted a pretty good raid," said Officer Martinez. "We arrested the parents. Put the kids in protective custody and enrolled them in public school. We confiscated a whole bunch of high quality, up to date learning materials, too."
Harvard
forcing homeschoolers to 'Fit In'
Fitting In's semester-long schedule includes trips to public
places where homeschoolers mingle with people from different
socio-economic backgrounds; parties where they learn to have
meaningless conversations to forge social bonds; tests on popular
slang phrases and lessons on how to "hang out" without
outsmarting everyone else in the room.
Home
Eating a Threat to Public Kitchens?
After much heated debate on the house floor, legislation was
passed today to allow a growing number of families to cook meals
for their families in their homes. The children must have annual
physical examinations to assure proper growth and weight gain.
Attempts to require weekly meal plans and monthly kitchen inspections
were voted down.
Homeschool Videos
Young homeschoolers, teen homeschoolers, parents and even curriculum suppliers are making videos and using YouTube.
Homeschooling
SAQ (Seldom Asked Questions)
If I homeschool, will I have to wear Birkenstocks? If I homeschool,
will I have to raise goats and chickens? Will I have to bake
my own bread and sew all of our own clothes? by Rebecca Prewett.
Homeschooling
with Humor
A Christian Yahoo Group, with a whimsical and creative approach
to homeschooling/ parenting your shy, gifted or A.D.D. child!
Inflatable Studios
Jason Holm has a new homeschool comic strip up every week, he promises. He also has his "Homeschooling & Socialization"" comic available on a t-shirt.
Josh Carden
Homeschooling's Own Humorist brings us the lighter side of homeschooling.
Homeschool graduate Joshua W. Carden is currently a Litigation
Staff Attorney for Alliance Defense Fund. Trekkies will especially
appreciate his humor.
Mallard
Fillmore
5 cartoons that comment on homeschoolers' abilities to win national
"bees" and manage at the same time to be well socialized
-- as long as they use small words and short sentences.
Okay Kids, Time for Bedlam!
The lighter side of life, told by Debbie Harbeson, an average
mom who rather unknowingly lobbed herself into the often loopy
world of homeschooling.
Out of
the Frying Pan
A good sense of humor, a strong dash of irony, and the author,
David Mankins, makes his points with a velvet glove.
The
Parent-Teacher Conference
A humourous look at "schoolish" expectations and homeschooling.
A
Recovery Program for Homeschool Split Personality Disorder
Do you vacillate between child-led, developmentally appropriate,
interest-initiated unschooling on one hand, and traditional,
structured, academic-based education on the other? Diane Keith
pokes fun at our mood swings.
Shakespearean
Insult Kit
The Pagan Homeschool page offers numerous ways to insult another
in an Elizabethian manner, thou bawdy, common-kissing, flax wench!
Top 5 reasons
to Home School
TV at recess, get to wear jammies, etc. Terry Moore show on QR77
radio in Calgary, September 1, 1994.