By Mimi Rothschild Imagine a place with lock-downs, metal detectors, inspections, undercover officers and routine drug testing. What do you see in your mind? Sounds like a description of a prison to me. Actually, this is what many public schools in America have implemented to address the violence and drug problems. In addition to hundreds [...]
By Mimi Rothschild Last week, Parkland Middle School students in the STAY program, “a program for at-risk middle school students that is operated by the YMCA,” went on a field trip to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood “is America’s leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider. Founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916 as America’s [...]
By Mimi Rothschild What are your homeschoolers doing this summer? Going back in time? Sailing on the high seas? Hanging out with the three little pigs? Summer is the perfect time for homeschoolers to improve their readings skills and have a blast while doing it. We’ve compiled a comprehensive summer reading list for each Grace [...]
By Mimi Rothschild Religion and Ethics has a transcript of a PBS special on home education featuring advocates such as Bruce Shortt and Voddie Baucham. The show highlights opinions from both sides of the playing field. A professor declares that homeschool students are not well socialized. Another claims that the government has an interest in [...]
By Mimi Rothschild Ok, this is the last post on the New Scientist article. I promise! The article goes on to cite E. Ray Moore of the Exodus Mandate, one of this generation’s greatest proponents of homeschooling as a tool for evangelism. “If we could get up to 30 percent of public-school students into home-schooling [...]
By Mimi Rothschild I’d like to post yet once more regarding Last week’s New Scientist fascinating article regarding the threat that homeschoolers pose to the secular science establishment. The final part of the article deals with homeschoolers’ newfound ability to effect social change through political means. Consider the following statistics: “By 2004, PHC students held [...]
By Mimi Rothschild Last week’s post from Pharyngula linked to a New Scientist article about Patrick Henry College, the HSLDA-led college in Virginia. Notoriously supportive of homeschooling, PHC and its students are a great example of how homeschoolers can enact widespread social change. Although quite a bit less biased than the aforementioned blog post, the [...]
By Mimi Rothschild A friend pointed out today’s post at Pharyngula to me this morning. Man, it really burns me when atheists like this professor try position themselves as open-minded. His solution to the evangelical “problem” is to ban homeschooling. Sounds awfully fascist to me. And yet, isn’t that the term so often thrown at [...]
by Mimi Rothschild I’ll start with the most recent news story I could find. Popular conservative news website World Net Daily has once again given the nod to homeschoolers, this time through a report on the recent “exit strategy movement.” Californian pastor Wiley Drake voices his support: “Basically, (the education system) has been saying, ‘You [...]