Home School High School

Items of Interest 9/29/10 September 29, 2010

School Board regulates Homeschool – In Westport Connecticut, the local school board has set rules requiring homeschoolers to create a yearly portfolio and meet with the “director of pupil services” (does that sound like the ‘committee of public safety’ to anyone else? ) “The call to turn these procedures into policy was made to ensure all students in Westport receive a quality education” LOL!

Homeschooling moves Mainstream – From the today show. According to that we (homeschool students) now account for at least 3 percent of the population (up from the last study I saw which listed us at 2 percent) “data shows there’s been an increase of 74 percent in the past 10 years.” Good news is that, like it or not, we’re here to stay. The bad news is that as we continue to absorb more and more of the school age population we become increasingly secular and average. Hopefully we (the Christian homeschool movement) will be a light to such people, and perhaps we can reform them instead of them dragging the movement to a new low. Time will tell. ““It’s hard to know what the root of it all is, but technology now gives parents the opportunity to encourage one another and get resources, making home-schooling more accessible than in the past.”” Welcome to the 21st century! Very similar to what I said in my paper on revolutionizing higher education only applied to secondary education.