How can parents say they love their children when they do this to them?

We're at his classroom. We're supposed to leave right away. They told us that in Parents' Orientation. They said hanging around only makes it worse. It couldn't be any worse. Robby is fighting panic, asking questions, stalling to keep us there, tears running quietly down his cheeks.

"How many hours will it be?" he asks. » read more »

You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.
Deuteronomy 8:5 (NKJV) » read more »

The education bureaucrats in Georgia did something right^*. They observed (I won't say "discovered," since this has been well known for some time) that in the area of mathematics, American students lag shamefully behind students in other parts of the developed world. To counteract this, they implemented a math curriculum that covers more advanced topics sooner in the progression through the system. In short, they raised the bar. » read more »

Apologia's science curriculum, mostly friendly to creationism, still promulgates some leftist myths. For example, their physical science book teaches about the Greenhouse Effect and Anthropogenic Global Warming, both of which have been roundly disproved. While Wile's texts are generally founded on young-earth creationism, he sometimes uses ages that are much longer than the earth's approximately 6000 years (e.g., 10,000 years). Overall, Apologia is a good curriculum, but it must still be taken with a grain of salt.

Being relatively new homeschooling parents (our kid is four), we haven't had too many fun experiences interacting with non-homeschooling parents. This list appears to have been created by someone who has:

1 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? » read more »

Fedgov's Immigration largely refuses to enforce the law against the hordes of foreign invaders streaming across our borders, but they want to deport refugees seeking asylum.

Citing a European court ruling, U.S. immigration authorities are arguing in an appeal that a family that fled Germany and gained asylum in Tennessee claiming their government persecuted them for homeschooling should be returned to their home country. » read more »

Public education indeed:

A school district in Arizona has filed a lawsuit against a handful of taxpayers seeking a court ruling that they have no right to ask for public records, sue the district or even complain to anyone about the educational institution's activities. » read more »

Age segregation is practiced in government schools, private schools, and churches. It's wrong, yet believers still participate this worldly idiocy. For example (hat tip Kat):

There are three basic flaws with systematic age-segregation. Number one, it's not found Scripture. You can't go to the Bible and come away with this "young adults," "medium adults," "married" — you can't go to the Scriptures and come away with that kind of segregation as a church model. » read more »

Voddie Baucham on Christian education:

"If we continue to send our children to Caesar for their education, they'll continue to come home as Romans."

Jesus on Christian education:

"A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher." Luke 6:40

Given an $88 million deficit, the Dekalb County school system^* is closing four schools this year and another 8-10 schools next year. I'd say that they are well on their way to complete success. All they need to do is reduce the overall budget to $0 and close the remaining schools. » read more »