Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Links: Increasing Indignation re persecution of homeschoolers in Germany
Internationally, the indignation about the criminalization of home education in Germany is growing
The website for the South African Homeschool Association is : www.sahomeschoolers.org
Also a special website has been created, Bremen Memorial, for the campaign to defend against the German Government at : www.bremen-memorial.org
HSLDA
www.hslda.org/hs/international/Germany/200711070.asp
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Exposing the Fraud of ADD and ADHD Articles, essays, and other information pertaining to the fraud of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)–Compiled by Dr. Fred Baughman Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD has been an adult & child neurologist, in private practice, for 35 years. Making "disease" (real diseases–epilepsy, brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, etc.) [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Schooled at Home Children educated away from public schools are finding less hurdles in college
Whitney Sorensen has been taking online and on-campus classes and violin lessons at UVSC for about a year, but she’s not a traditional college student. First of all, she’s 14, and second, she’s a home-school student.
SHE USES THE UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE courses to supplement the curriculum she’s learning at home, much like a high [...]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Protest against the persecution of homeschoolers in Germany
Please read the following media release of the South African Homeschool Association, If there are German education institutions in your country, think about creating similar actions there.
Learning Freely Network and it’s parent ALO /SAL support this action.
Media Statement by the Association for Homeschooling South Africa
The Association for Homeschooling, in co-operation with [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Ontario School Board Bans Book- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
source: LifeLearning.org
Here we go….
I support EVERYONES right to free thought and that includes the right to not believe in a god.
When I read stories like this is makes me fume. How would christians react if humanists/atheists demanded books with Christian dogma where pulled? From my understanding the book, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman was [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Home Educators Protecting Privacy
Article from Toledoblade, plus commentary with related information from ,Home Education Magazine’
Public districts must provide lists but parents can say no, schools insist
Some might feel this does not affect homeschoolers, but I know that when the for-profit charters were targeting us in the state of Ohio, more than one district superintendent said they felt they [...]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Australia: A Change of Federal Government - What does this mean for Home Educators?
What always amazes me in recent years with Federal Elections is that the result is usually ‘called’ before the Western Australian polling booths are closed. When I was a teen it would be close on midnight before the election could be ‘called’, but now it’s around 8pm. Nothing is conceded until later in the evening [...]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Unschooling: The next horizon in education?
It’s not exactly a brand-new ideal; in fact some theorists claim it was the original method for educating children. Whatever the case, the phenomenon of "unschooling" has seen a rebirth recently, as more and more parents lose faith and patience with the effects of conventional education.
According to a story in the Tennessean, focusing on [...]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Home-school kids barred from activities
Uriah Pissalidis, 16, a drummer from Baldwin, has played a modest concert for family with other members of his fledgling rock band.
But he hasn’t had the chance to perform before cheering crowds with his school district’s jazz or marching bands.
Because Uriah and his sister Rebecca, 12, are home-schooled, they aren’t permitted to participate in extracurricular [...]
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Germany: Neubronner Accounts freed!
Dear friends of Freedom in Education!
we just learned that our accounts are free again. We have not been informed about this. We found out about it accidentally, when we phoned with the fiscal officer, because even our electricity bill payment had been rejected. The fiscal officer was very astonished and told us, [...]
