A serious argument for the benefits of a home-based education...and beyond. This blog is not intended for the faint of heart or wimpy parent. We talk serious politics of homeschooling, share homeschooling war stories and have frank discussions concerning public school. We give advice freely. Read at your own risk!
These men and women gave everything they had. On this Memorial Day 2011 remember their sacrifice. Honor that sacrifice by memorizing our United States Constitution. Swear to uphold and defend it as these fallen soldiers did. If it is the only thing you do for the rest of your life to honor their memory then their sacrifice will not have been in vain.
"It also allows school administrators to suspend or expel a student for an action that does not occur during the school day or on school property."
"Does NOT occur during the school day or ON school property!" Yes, you read correctly. So ANYTHING your child does or says in the privacy of your home can now be construed as bullying by a school administrator. I wonder how many Vermont children and their parents will get caught in this twisted web? No need to discipline your child anymore because the schools plan to do it for you 24/7.
How do these students function in the real world outside their dorms and classrooms? It really makes me wonder. I guess when you've been conditioned most of your life in public school to think this way it's bound to carry over into your college years. Not sure if the older people were students or professors though which is even scarier. Let's hope most get a real dose of reality once they leave that environment and come to their senses after they buy their worthless college degrees.
Linda Dobson always has a way of putting things in perspective. You'll enjoy other writings and information at her blog as well. She is a prolific writer on homeschooling and a wealth of great material which will empower you as a homeschooling parent or as just a plain ol' American concerned for the future of our country.
Gerald Celente is great (as always) in this documentary. Kudos to National Inflation Association for a job well done!
It's amazing to think I lived the college experience but fortunately for me I didn't go into debt nor did my parents for doing it. Granted I managed to go to college on the GI Bill but millions of young people go into hock these days to buy a college degree. A degree that doesn't guarantee employment or even an education of any value. Out of the five official years I spent on campus purchasing a degree my best college lessons were from only two professors. Of those two professors one was a commercial artist and the other was a theater director. Both pushed me to excel in whatever I chose to pursue simply because they saw I had the self-discipline, initiative and maturity to do so.
By the time I landed on campus I had already been in the US Army, traveled the country, had worked full time for several years and was much older than my classmates who were fresh out of high school. My upbringing may have played a role too since I grew up in the 1950's and 1960's with 10 siblings on a farm where we needed to be self-sufficient and industrious in order to survive. Our grade school consisted of two rooms with grades 1-6, about 50 students total. Back then the only two teachers in that school made sure we learned reading, writing and arithmetic. We learned to socialize with other children on the 2 mile walk to and from school and on the playground during recess. When I got to high school much of what was 'taught' didn't make sense in the real world and seemed like useless information even back then.
When we decided to homeschool we made the conscious decision to pick and choose any formal courses our children might attend. ANY public school attendance was completely taken out of the equation. We were not about to give the public school system the slightest opportunity to take credit for even a fraction of our child's education. We proved public school was unnecessary and a waste of tax payer money. Community college was used but only as an alternative to high school and we paid out of pocket per class. College courses were highly focused and our children are not indebted to any bank, loan company or the taxpayers.
Academics is no longer reading, writing and arithmetic. Academics today is bringing about change through emotions...behavior modification, attitudinal adjustment and political correctness. Are parents paying attention? I knew this years ago and it's a major factor in our decision to homeschool. It just took some time to put my finger on it and learn it had a name...Outcome Based Education.
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“The Bartleby Project begins by inviting 60,000,000 American students, one by one, to peacefully refuse to take standardized tests or to participate in any preparation for these tests; it asks them to act because adults chained to institutions and corporations are unable to; because these tests pervert education, are disgracefully inaccurate, impose brutal stresses without reason, and actively encourage a class system which is poisoning the future of the nation.”
Tips & Strategies For A Successful & Profitable Tag Sale A guide to planning and conducting your next tag sale with less hassle & bigger profits! by Cindy Wade
Turn your clutter & cast-offs into cash!
Cover is printed on 67 lb. white cover stock and pages are printed on 24 lb. 98 bright white paper stock. Binding is saddled stitched with wire staples in folded 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of paper. This 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" booklet contains 16 pages with:
-Tips & strategies for planning a tag sale
-Tips & strategies for conducting a tag sale
-Planning calendar, inventory sheet & checklists
-Resources for more information & support
-Learn what the best kept secret to a successful tag sale is
-Learn why early bird shoppers are a good thing
Table of contents includes:
-Introduction
-Deciding What To Sell
-Prepping Your Inventory
-Location, Location, Location
-Pricing Your Inventory
-Advertising Is A Crucial Part Of Your Sale
-Tag Sale Calendar Time Line
-Pamper Your Help
-Safety & Security First For Everyone & Everything
-The Day Of The Sale
-The Sale Is Over...Now What?
-Inventory List
-Advertising Checklist
-Activity Checklist
A very helpful guide for the inexperienced tag sale host. This guide is great for the individual planning a tag sale but is not sure where to begin. It is also a great guide for club members who want to organize a tag sale fund-raiser or the real estate agent who wants to help their client liquidate a household before putting their house on the market. A great guide for the experienced tag sale host as well who is looking for ideas on how to increase their revenue and make their next sale run smoother.
The full sheet pull out calendar on pages 8 & 9 can be used as a guideline with 3 full weeks of how-to preparation. Keep track of inventory and advertising information with lists on the last pages. A comprehensive tag sale activity checklist is included on the back cover.
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" First, we need a ferocious national debate that doesn't quit, day after day, year after year, the kind of continuous debate that journalism finds boring. We need to scream and argue about this school thing until it is fixed or broken beyond repair, one or the other. If we can fix it, fine; if we cannot, then the success of home-schooling shows a different road that has great promise. Pouring the money we now pour into schooling back into family education might cure two ailments with one medicine, repairing families as it repairs children.
Genuine reform is possible but it shouldn't cost anything. More money and more people pumped into this sick institution will only make it sicker."
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Meet Cindy Wade
About This Blogger
Artist, photographer, playwright, educator and dumpster diva, I grew up in a rural part of Vermont during the 1960's and 1970's with nine brothers and sisters. I attended a two-room schoolhouse during my elementary years then went on to junior and senior high in the next town where the class roster consisted of twenty-five students.
High school was a snap. Academics were less than challenging so I found myself on the honor roll several times, even making high honors once. My senior year I was president of FHA (Future Homemakers of America), captain of the varsity cheer leading squad and vice-president of the regional student council and I was still expelled 5 times, mostly for arguing with the principal. Mind you we had 5 different principals during my 6 years at this junior and senior high.
After high school graduation in 1972 I enlisted in the U.S. Army where I received basic training at Ft. McClellan, Alabama (graduated at the top of my class!) and medical training at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. While in the service I worked in military hospitals where I tended to sick and injured servicemen, and in pediatrics, caring for dependent children. In all I spent ten years in the active Army, Reserves and National Guard.
After my stint in the Army I attended college (dean's list) on the GI Bill where I majored in art and theater. I graduated from Castleton State College in 1981 and hold a BA in Art. I first became interested in homeschooling when I directed a small children's theater here in Vermont. I noticed some children in the acting company were more consistently focused, relaxed and mature than others. When I inquired as to why I found they were being home schooled. This discovery began a twenty-four year quest to learn as much as possible about home education and its benefits.
In 1983 I married my husband, Todd, of Houston, Texas. Our daughter was born in 1986 while I was still director of the children's theater company.
I continued a career in the theater into the early 1990's as a self-taught Executive/Artistic Director for a professional theater company while still maintaining an interest in developing a service to assist parents and individuals who wanted to home school their children or simply learn more about it. This interest led to Gnarly Birch Press, a mail order business for home education books, booklets, and a nationally distributed, quarterly newsletter--Right At Home--and the sponsoring of workshops for networking.
While working with the professional theater company I discovered many students graduating from prestigious colleges and universities lacked simple and necessary skills (for example: young people with degrees who didn't know how to use the yellow pages in the telephone book) needed to function in life. I witnessed, first hand, the detrimental effects of mandatory attendance at government operated public schools by observing the irresponsible, anti-social behavior of those who had been schooled. This behavior is carried over to the campus environment and then into the work place.
I am now an advocate for home education and have published three booklets of my own on the subject. From time to time I will be posting excerpts from those booklets here on this blog.
Presently I reside in central Vermont with my husband and two children. Our daughter is now 21 years old, attends community college part-time (she began taking college classes at age 15), works part-time at a department store, plays classical piano, is a certified fire-fighter, has her own eBay business, and creates one-of-a-kind creations for her own business called Flutternut Studios. She attended pre-school for only four days and dropped out. She jokingly refers to herself as a preschool dropout.
Our son, born in 1991, recently began college classes at the local community college, plays jazz piano, works part-time for my business and basically hangs out with family and friends. He never attended any school until this fall when he chose to take two classes at a local technical school. He's 16 years old, still a work in progress and a joy to be with.
One of the fastest growing movements in American history is the act of homeschooling. Weary parents are finally choosing to rescue their children from the torments of public school. I believe America is in an all out battle for the souls of the children who live within its boundaries and I intend to arm parents with the information they need to save those children from the detrimental effects of forced public schooling. Guerrilla Homeschooling is my voice.
No longer with any theater group I devote my time to my family, my art at Angel Ridge Art, my antique business and the task at hand of getting the word out about the advantages and joys of home-based education. I am available for speaking engagements and can be contacted via email at cwade@vermontel.net.
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