We upgraded my insulin pump this week, but the bigger upgrades were mental. From questioning our homeschooling choices to asking whether we owe the dead honesty in obituaries, this post wrestles with accountability, second thoughts, and telling the truth.
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Homeschooling’s Dark Reality: The Story of a Boy Left Behind
It’s far too easy for homeschooled kids to fall through the cracks.
Why We Homeschool
Yes, I know this was a substitute teacher, and that such events are aberrations. I also know that parents sometimes abuse their own kids. But it still happened in the public school system, and it shouldn’t have. Sarasota substitute named in attack on 3 students
Why We Homeschool #4,852
We do it so our kids will never, ever be faced with something like this. I know it wasn’t a strip search (although those have happened before in some schools), but come on. We’re talking about 8- and 9-year-old kids. Yes, they’re capable of stealing. But a physical search is wrong, no matter what. Aside Read More
You’re Right, It’s Not
Reason 2,368 why we homeschool: S.C. Mom: Teacher Allowed Foot Stomping Oct 4, 5:26 PM (ET) ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) – A Rock Hill teacher disciplined a student by having the boy’s classmates stomp on his feet, the boy’s mother says. Rosewood Elementary School teacher Daniel Johns, 25, punished the 7-year-old boy last month for Read More