Sean Gabb
Explains Home Schooling In The UK
This is an updated [ November 2014
] position with the relevant law.
Home Schooling - A
Libertarian View
It comes with the relevant bits of law.
Home Schooling Law In England
It is all legal.
Duke Explains About Home Schooling On Larry King Live
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With the country perpetually ginned up for the next presidential smack down,
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campaign videos of Duke2000 -- Ambassador Duke’s “Absolutely Nothing To Lose”
run for the White House as a maverick Reform Party candidate. E-campaigning from
his headquarters at the E-Z Rest Motor Lodge in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, Duke set
out to prove that an average citizen, with nothing more than a laptop, a few
spam speeches, and a sackful of soft money, could make political history.
The former Ambassador announces his candidacy [ for POTUS
]
and lays out his education policy: "One teacher for each subject, and
give 'em a cable channel. Let the kids watch from home."
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It sounds good to me.
Fred Explains
Literacy or try Home Schooling by Fred
Fred has been around. Fred has seen crime as a reporter in
Washington; crime in the ghettoes, crime in politics. Fred makes lots of sense.
Home Schooling by Fred
Free The
Children
Is intended for children in America but it is very much on
the right lines. It looks at the politics as well as teaching.
Getting Started
Is from the Texas Home School Coalition and eminently practical.
Home
Education Do It Yourself - Do It Better
Sean Gabb is the leading theoretician of liberty in England.
If this sounds off putting press on. It pays off. He writes clear English and
tells us about the whole thing. Her Majesty the Queen was educated privately, not merely
taught at home. It worked for Her and it can work for yours. Her
offspring had Gordonstoun, a public school inflicted on them. Cold showers are presumed to be
character forming. The next generation went to happier places. They might revert
to their old way yet.
Home Schooling Help At Hand
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Nationally, more families are educating children at home, a new report shows.
The local home schooling movement also remains strong. Numbers
are difficult to quantify, but Southwestern Indiana Home Educators, a networking
group, has 300 to 500 families on its e-mail loop.
We
realize that home school curricula are often extremely expensive; sometimes
costing hundreds of dollars a year. This sort of expense really hurts when
undertaking home schooling already entails a loss of income. Moreover, when used
as a supplement to the public or private schools, it is hard to justify the
added expense in a tight family budget. But, EAU is intended to be a community;
and communities help each other. Our elementary school curriculum is of, for and
by EAU members; and so for current EAU members it is completely free of
charge. It is yours -- just for the asking. If you want access to it, just
go to our
organizational contact page and
send an email containing your membership number to our board of directors.
You'll receive an email back that contains the access information for the
curriculum.
If you are not an EAU member for some reason and want access to the curriculum;
such access can be obtained by sending a $100 donation, your email address, and
a short note requesting access to our regular mailbox.
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Do it yourself. Do it better.
Parents Right - Math Experts Wrong
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"Parents Right; Maths Experts
Wrong. curriculum mistake made by the
so-called education
experts who demanded that
schools ..."
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The
Lunatic Fringe
is out there and the kiss of death for anything they
control. This another argument for home schooling.
Special
Interest Groups Love Compulsory Schooling
It is not just the history lessons that are
tailored to suit the politicians or communist subversives there are the others
pushing political correctness and abusing racists - but only if they are white.
Then there are the marketing opportunities. It goes on. This article applies to
America in particular but England is just as bad.
Texas Home School Coalition
Has been going for twenty years now so they should be
getting quite good at it. They give practical advice. The guest speaker at their
celebration is the Governor of Texas so you have to believe that they are accepted
as normal and reasonable.
Truancy - A Personal Perspective
Doctor Gabb was a persistent
truant and self educated as a result. He tells us:-
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What Truancy did for Me
I played truant in the first instance because I did not feel there was much
point in being at school. I much preferred the education I could get for myself
in the library or at home. I stopped when I found I had teachers who were not
ignorant of their subjects,......... I then continued to play truant for a while
because of habit and because I positively enjoyed being in charge of my
education.
The second conclusion is that truancy may often be not merely a rational but also a wise choice. It would be false modesty to deny that I have done well since leaving school. I owe this success overwhelmingly to the fact that I was hardly ever present for nearly half the time I was enrolled there..........
Is Truancy to be
Encouraged?
Returning to my second
conclusion, just given, and speaking more generally, I am inclined to think
compulsory state schooling a bad thing............
There is a strand of neo-Marxist thinking..... that claims schooling to be the means by which capitalism reproduces itself: it instils in working class children a set of values hostile to their true interests. In its specifics, this is an absurd claim. It is true, however, in its generality. As with most neo-Marxist theory, it says little about what is being attacked, but much about the intentions of those making the attack.............
For over a decade, I
have been involved in a research project that is trying to establish that
truancy is neither delinquency nor illness, but a response to bad curriculum and
bad teaching.
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One of the
guilty speaks from experience. I think he is right. But he is someone who wanted
to learn rather than laze.
A Visit from Child Protective Services
Malicious allegations to the Child Protective Services in Texas
can trigger a visit. There are answers to this. Shooting them is not necessarily the first
option or even always the best. The CPS was incited to visit the Branch
Dravidians at Waco and found that all was well but later they were attacked by
the
BATF and dozens of them were murdered. See The Waco
Massacre on the point. Child welfare was one excuse used by the
FBI. Of course it was fraudulent. They murdered most of the children too. It was
much the same when they carried out the Ruby Ridge
Massacre
