Not Another Homeschool Blog

Here is the Homeschooling Week in Review April 21- April 27, 2008 This past week on the families.com homeschooling blog, we discussed more curriculums that you can use to homeschool your child, plus several important topics for homeschoolers. ... read more here

Watch this video if you want to learn how to address people who ask you stupid questions about homeschooling.... This is not for people who care what others think.

The number of African American Homeschoolers is on the rise, inspite of disaproval from other African Americans, for whatever reason. Here is my take on the situation.

I found this video online that gives some interesting insight in the way math is taught in schools. It also gives a plug for singapore math. view it here:

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Since I got hired to blog over at families.com, I have had trouble keeping up this blog. But, this past week, I discovered vlogging, as you may have noticed. Posting in this way is great fun for me, and I hope you enjoy it too.

Visit this week's Carnival of Homeschooling where you will find entries from homeschooling mom from all over and of all types. You will find it at Why Homeschool

I went on a Youtube rant after viewing this persons reason for not homeschooling... watch it.

I came across this video about homeschooling/ unschooling on youtube. This 14 year old girl is very articulate if you ask me

Next year both of my kids will be middle schoolers. The youngest will be starting 6th grade and the older 8th grade. Yesterday we had a meeting with the local Masters Academy to enroll them for next year. In addition to the fine arts program they have been attending they will also be taking academic classes on Thursdays and working from home the rest of the week... We are very excited about this program as my son tried it two years ago, and would have done it last year too except that the location was just too far for us. I was glad to find that I had prepared the children adequately for thier entry into this program and that they were accepted at grade level after using a combination of Time4learning , workbooks, and a math tutor to homeschool them up until this point. According to Time4learning "Many homeschool families use Time4Learning as core curriculum in one or more subjects: others use Time4Learning to supplement other homeschool curriculum with a fun interactive reinforce...

The Atlanta Six Flags attempted a huge promotion today to get children on spring break to come and spend money. They said they would let everyone who arrived between 6am to 9 am would get in free. The promotion went wrong, very very wrong... Carloads of people began lining up as early at 3am to get into the park. By 5:30, drivers let passengers (i.e. thier children) get out of the cars from the freeway to walk to the gates. Those kids were turned away and of course had trouble finding their cars. There are reports of fights. Park officials ended the free admission at 5:55, thereby renigging thier promise. Police began turning cars back that were hindering rush hour traffic around 6:30. My daughter did want to go, so I let her go with my pastors family who had the good sense to listen to the news and turn back before ever getting on the highway. As for me, I will wait for homeschool day, when I will purchase discounted tickets in advance. In my opinion, six flags should have nev...