Proving again that one should be careful to make promises one cannot keep, I feel that I must break my promise to myself that I would stop writing about homeschooling for a while. In the last few days a story has been making the rounds about a supposed threat to homeschooling in Florida. The potential […]
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Good News! I finally found something a Michael Farris associate is willing to call abuse.
I feel like I’m beating a dead horse on this, but as I keep writing about, I’m having a hard time finding anyone associated with Michael Farris who is willing to actually call anything child abuse. Well, good news boys and girls. Remember that I mentioned the other day about how Michael Farris was at […]
Since when did being a homeschooling and parental rights advocate mean being an anti-gay activist? When it’s Michael Farris, of course!
Well, I guess it was too much to hope for that Farris et al. would speak out against the egregious threat to the rights of gay parents in Russia. When a concerned former homeschooler asked him about it on his Facebook page, he pretty much blew her off by saying that because it wasn’t a […]
An open letter to Michael Farris and ParentalRights.org
Dear Michael Farris, For the last week you have had your supporters bombarding the German embassy with calls, emails, and Facebook comments about the German homeschooling family who lost custody of their children. You have demonstrated your ability to motivate thousands of your American supporters to come to the aid of parents in other countries. […]
Nerdy Homeschooler
Note: I wrote the following for Homeschooling Positives Week on Homeschooler’s Anonymous. *** I’m a nerd, a geek, though I suppose not enough of one to get caught up in the arguments over which of those terms is positive and which one is the insult. I was a female computer geek back before there were enough of us […]
HSLDA, the Parental Rights Amendment, and Enabling Child Abusers
I’m sick, I’m really sick. When I wrote back in May about what I suspected was a legal strategy by HSLDA to make homeschooling a fundamental right, I said that I hoped I was wrong. I hoped that HSLDA’s end game wasn’t giving parents the right to do almost anything to their children short of […]
How bad homeschool research and statistics hurt homeschoolers
When I was in college, I was one of the participants who answered the NHERI/HSLDA/Brian Ray survey of homeschooling graduates. I don’t remember how I got the survey, probably via email forward from my mom, but what I do remember is sending an email to my family after taking it in which I said something […]
I Resemble That Remark
I’m not generally in the habit of responding via blog post to tweets by 21 year old college students, but when that 21 year old college student is an occasional World Net Daily columnist tweeting slurs to mock something I’m involved in, I’m willing to break that rule. This lovely little gem was tweeted earlier today, he’s […]
Guest Post: Homeschooling’s Unwilling Boosters?
The following is a follow-up to my posts, The One Thing You Should Never Ask a Homeschool Kid, and Well, That Was Certainly Not Something I Expected to be Controversial. The author wishes to remain anonymous. *** Kathryn blogged last week about homeschool children who are asked to defend homeschooling to strangers who want to […]
Well THAT was certainly not something I expected to be controversial
When I wrote my post The One Thing You Should Never Ask a Homeschool Kid a few weeks ago, it didn’t cross my mind that it might generate controversy. It was basically just a rant about something that’s bugged me since I was really little, and since most homeschoolers I know have complained about random people […]