| Much of what I thought about home
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| | bills, or trade off with other
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| schooling was wrong. The conventional
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| | home-schooling parents when they have to
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| wisdom about this rapidly growing
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| | be away.
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| dimension of American education is too
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| | Home schooling involves a tremendous
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| simple, too stereotyped and too stale.
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| | commitment from the parents. At least one
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| For instance, the Home School Legal
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| | parent must be willing to work closely
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| Defense Association, despite its
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| | with the child, plan lessons, keep
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| energetic lawyers and many admirers, is
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| | abreast of requirements, and perhaps
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| not the leader of home schooling in this
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| | negotiate issues with the school
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| country. There is no leader, and no
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| | district. The most common home school
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| reigning ideology. There are instead at
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| | arrangement is for the mother to teach
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| least a million American children - the
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| | while the father works out of the home.
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| real figure is probably twice that number
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| | There are a variety of educational
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| - whose families want them to learn at
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| | materials geared for the home school,
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| home for many reasons, often having
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| | published by dozens of suppliers. Some
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| little to do with religion or politics.
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| | are correspondence courses, which grade
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| The common image of home-schoolers as
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| | students' work, some are full curricula,
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| lockstep religious conservatives falls
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| | and some are single topic workbooks or
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| apart when you discover that some of
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| | drill materials in areas such as math or
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| these parents have been shunned by their
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| | phonics.
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| fundamentalist churches for teaching
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| | Many of the curriculum providers are
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| their kids at home rather than sending
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| | indentifiably Christian, including
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| them to the church's school. Some
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| | several major home school publishers such
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| home-schoolers love the new for-profit
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| | as Bob Jones University Press, Alpha
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| online teaching programs like K12. Some
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| | Omega Publications, and Home Study
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| think they are a corporate plot. Some
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| | International. A major non-religious
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| parents are home-schooling because their
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| | provider of home school materials is the
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| kids were learning more quickly than
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| | Calvert School in Baltimore. Figures vary
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| their teachers could keep up with. Some
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| | as to how many home schools use published
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| are home-schooling because their kids
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| | curricula or correspondence courses, but
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| were learning more slowly than their
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| | the Department of Education estimates
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| public school teachers had patience for.
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| | that it is from 25 to 50%; the rest use a
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| Some home-school because their children
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| | curriculum the parents and/or child have
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| were unhappy at school. Some home-school
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| | devised. Education writer John Holt, a
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| because they could not meet their needs
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| | champion of home schooling, suggested
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| any other way.
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| | that no particular area of study was
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| Public school educators often worry that
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| | essential. He advised parents to use real
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| the children of such people will not
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| | life activities such as work in a family
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| learn necessary social skills. But
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| | business, writing letters, bookkeeping,
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| home-schooling parents said their
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| | observing nature, and talking with old
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| children learned how to deal with other
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| | people as meaningful academic lessons.
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| people just fine, particularly with the
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| | Home schools might fall anywhere on this
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| many adults they encountered when they
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| | spectrum, between the tightly planned
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| visited the library or went to church or
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| | study of a formal curriculum to Holt's
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| did chores around the neighborhood. With
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| | free-form, experiential learning.
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| their parents so often at their side,
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| | But first, all the parents interested in
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| they were able to see what good manners
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| | teaching their children at home need to
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| and self-confidence looked like, rather
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| | find out what laws apply to their state
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| than be forced to adopt the jungle code
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| | and school district.
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| of the average high school corridor. In
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| | Learn about home schooling.
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| many families one parent stays at home to
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| | Home-schooling programs and information
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| supervise the home schooling, although
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| | blog.
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| they often do some work there to pay the
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