Should homeschoolers be concerned about grades?

This is a good article by Michael Mclaren concerning grading in your homeschool. For us grades were never really an issue. We weren't concerned about them and grading work or activities seemed irrelevant. Once in a while our children would be curious about a grade system because non-homeschoolers would make such a fuss over them, so we'd total up a few pages of book work just to show them what happens in a public school setting. Besides, we were always too busy learning and having fun to worry about grades. Grades weren't an issue for getting into college either. Both of our children entered community college without a high school diploma, SAT scores, transcripts or a GED. If you think about it every homeschooler is a valedictorian so why bother to keep score?

Do the Bilderberg Group Rule the World?

Do the Bilderberg Group Rule the World?

Ever wonder why up seems down and down seems up in today's irrational world? Introducing the Bilderberg Group. I wonder what their plans are for us uncooperative homeschoolers?

Learn more about the Bilderberg Group here.

10 Reasons School is Prison & 5 Ways to Break Free From Captive Thinking

http://www.swissarmywife.net/2010/04/10-ways-school-is-prison-and-5-ways-to-break-free-from-captive-thinking/10 Reasons School is Prison & 5 Ways to Break Free From Captive Thinking

Heather writes a great article on a subject dear to my heart...public schools are nothing more than camouflaged prisons. Today, however, the schools are much more blatant about their status with lock downs, legally drugging children into submission and the handcuffing of little children. I am so happy to see young moms like Heather take up the cause for homeschooling since I'm sort of out of the loop now that my children are 19 and 22 years old.

"3. Trust yourself. You must trust in yourself, before you can truly trust in your child."

This was probably the best advice I ever received as a new homeschooling mom over 22 years ago. I needed to learn to trust my myself to teach my own and trust that I knew what was best for my children and for my family as a whole. I needed to trust that what I saw in the public school was pure poison to children and families. I needed to trust my instincts telling me that sending a child into a public school was no less than a death sentence for that child!

Kudos to Heather for sharing her thoughts and discoveries! Be sure to visit Heather's blog to read her article in its entirety.

Ten Things to Take From The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands - Books - Blogcritics

Ten Things to Take From The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands - Books - Blogcritics

This is a great review for a book that I highly recommend to wives everywhere. A strong marriage is essential to a harmonious home (providing you are a two parent home). If you're a single parent home that's okay too, but be the best parent you can be. Homeschooling happens best in a home that is stable, loving and with parent(s) working in harmony. That's just my opinion.

Worried your homeschooled child won't develop social skills?

No need to worry. Children will naturally learn to socialize with all ages provided they aren't locked into their peer group the way they are in public school. Read up on what other homeschoolers do day to day and your confidence will rise amazingly. We all have had our doubts about educating our own but it's so natural children react positively, providing you keep it relaxed and don't try to 'school' them.

Reading sources:

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/index.htm
http://www.homeedmag.com/index.html
http://www.holtgws.com/
http://learninfreedom.org/
http://homeschoolnewslink.com/

Nothing rips me more than this phony ADD thing!

If there is one thing about child rearing that annoys me the most it is the destruction of perfectly normal children being diagnosed with the phony disease ADD/ADHD by unscrupulous public school teachers, psychiatrists, pediatricians and the ignorant or disinterested parents who allow this to happen.

Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD has written a book titled The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes “Patients” Out of Normal Children, Published by Trafford Publishing. Thankfully, another voice for the innocent children. One day this nightmare will cease and children will be allowed to be children again. At least, for now, we can rescue the children one at a time from the damage being perpetrated by forced public schooling and ignorant parents.

Home Education Magazine Free Sample

http://www.homeedmag.com/ORD/frm_info.html

Sign up here for a free sample of the Home Education Magazine...I consider this magazine to be the top magazine for home education information.

Recommended Reading List

Recommended Reading List

• The UnderGround History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
• The Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 88 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices by Linda Dobson
• The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self by Linda Dobson
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get A Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn
• Who's Ruining Our Schools?: A Case Against the NEA Teacher Union by Dan C. Alexander, Jr.
• The Relaxed Home School by Mary Hood, Ph. D.
• The Home School Source Book by Donn Reed
• The Home School Reader: Collected Articles from Home Education Magazine edited by Mark & Helen Hegener
• The Exhausted School: The First National Grassroots Speakout On The Right To School Choice edited by John Taylor Gatto
• Teach Your Own by John Holt
• Taking Charge Through Home Schooling: Personal and Political Empowerment by M. Larry and Susan D. Kaseman
• Schooling At Home: Parents, Kids and Learning by Mothering Magazine Edited by Anne Pederson and Peggy O'Mara
• School Choice: Why You Need It--How To Get It by David Harmer
• Not With My Child You Don't: A Citizen's Guide to Eradicating OBE and Restoring Education by Robert Holland
• Miseducation: Preschoolers At Risk by David Elkind
• I Learn Better By Teaching Myself by Agnes Leistico
• Homeschooling For Excellence: How To Take Charge of Your Child's Education and Why You Absolutely Must by David and Micki Colfax
• Home School: Taking the First Step by Borg Hendrickson
• Home School: An Alternative-You Do Have A Choice by Cheryl Gorder
• Home Education Magazine from Home Education Press
• Growing Without Schooling from Holt Associates, Inc.
• Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense by David Gutterson
• Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add by Charles J. Sykes
• Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius by Thomas Armstrong, Ph. D.
• Alternatives In Education by Mark and Helen Hegener

John Taylor Gatto: Why Schools Don't Educate

http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html

Damn the schools! Full speed ahead...to homeschooling!

John Taylor Gatto: Underground History of American History

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

Amazing read....then send Mr. Gatto a contribution for his forthcoming documentary series: The Fourth Purpose.

Mr. Gatto has been absolutely amazing at sharing what he knows with the public. Much of what he shares he does so freely. We all need to support him and his projects that have improved the lives of families everywhere. His legacy will be that he made this world a better place for children and their families.

John Taylor Gatto Interview with Jerry Brown

http://www.wtp.org/archive/transcripts/john_taylor_gatto.html

John Taylor Gatto interviewed by Jerry Brown March 25, 1997. (transcript)

"JTG: I'd like to comment on what Craig said on breaking the spirit. The most influential US commissioner of education that ever existed was William Torre Harris, and in a book he wrote, back in 1906, The Philosophy of Education, he said that the purpose of schooling was to alienate children from their families, their churches, their neighborhoods, and themselves! I mean, it wasn't a secret, its just that people who walk their dogs, or look at the sun come up in the morning, they don't have time to read books called "The Philosophy of Education!" [laughs] Of course that's what it's about!

JB: Amazing!"

John Taylor Gatto Interview with Jerry Brown

http://www.wtp.org/archive/transcripts/john_taylor_gatto.html

John Taylor Gatto interviewed by Jerry Brown March 25, 1997. (transcript)

"JTG: I'd like to comment on what Craig said on breaking the spirit. The most influential US commissioner of education that ever existed was William Torre Harris, and in a book he wrote, back in 1906, The Philosophy of Education, he said that the purpose of schooling was to alienate children from their families, their churches, their neighborhoods, and themselves! I mean, it wasn't a secret, its just that people who walk their dogs, or look at the sun come up in the morning, they don't have time to read books called "The Philosophy of Education!" [laughs] Of course that's what it's about!

JB: Amazing!"

The Link: The Nation's Homeschool Newspaper

http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/

Outstanding home education newspaper. Loaded with information. My favorite contributor is John Taylor Gatto with his generous literary offerings.

John Taylor Gatto Official Website

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

The one man who can change the world and save the children!

John Taylor Gatto: Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto

My hero!

Growing Without Schooling

http://www.holtgws.com/growingwithoutsc.html

If you can get your hands on back copies of this magazine you'll be happy you did. Some very good articles and information from some of the homeschooling early-birds who paved the way for others.

Home Education Magazine

http://www.homeedmag.com/

I rate this magazine as the number one home education magazine in the world!

Welcome to Guerrilla Homeschooling

I first heard about homeschooling when I directed a children's theater and met several parents who were teaching their children at home. That was in 1983, three years before my first child was born.

I knew, right from the start, my child would never attend public school so I began my quest for any and all the information I could find on homeschooling. At the time there was little information to be found.

Fortunately, I found a copy of Home Education Magazine at the local library and ordered a subscription for myself. I also ordered several publications from Home Education Magazine's wonderful catalog.

Homeschooling books were few and far between on the book store shelves but one of the first books I found and read was Teach Your Own by John Holt. After reading this book I was completely hooked on homeschooling. I knew for certain this would be the route I would take to give my child a real education and to keep the government out of my business.

I was surprised to learn my greatest obstacle to homeschooling would not be time, money or curriculum, but it would be the resistance of a few family members and several friends. Because of the doubts these people had about my choice I began the time-consuming task of finding and compiling enough information to convince them my daughter would still receive an education despite her absence from public school.

I spent a small fortune on books and magazine subscriptions, but the money was well invested. Not only did I find enough information to pass along to the skeptics but my own confidence received an incredible boost from all the research. I now have an extensive reference library as well.

The need to educate others about homeschooling became the impetus for creating and publishing Right At Home, a quarterly home education newsletter. Right At Home was first published in 1993. Within the first three years of publication it grew from a one sheet, two sided newsletter to eight pages of book reviews, homeschooling information, resources, political commentary, children's art, poetry and more.

This blog is a compilation of some of the information from Right At Home along with up to date news reports, research, resources, book reviews, stories, writings, ramblings and other information about homeschooling.

The books on the suggested reading list are highly recommended for homeschooling parents and others who want to take back control of their child's education. I hope you, the reader of this blog, find the information enlightening and empowering. More importantly, I hope this information brings you closer to healing your family in this chaotic world that is controlled by those who think they know what is best for us and our children. You'll soon discover, as I did, we parents are truly the ones who know best how to raise our own children.

My first born child is now 21 years old. She did eventually attend a private preschool but only for four days after both she and I could no longer tolerate the nonsense being heaped on the two of us. To this day she jokingly refers to herself as a preschool dropout. She is a lovely girl who has been attending college part time since the age of 15, she owns and operates her own business, she is an artist, plays classical piano and is a certified firefighter. Our son is 16, plays jazz piano, enjoys working on cars, loves to travel, and is enrolled at a community college. He has never attended public or private school, not even preschool.

I, myself, have become a home education advocate and have published several homeschooling booklets. I am very outspoken about the pros and cons of homeschooling and forced public schooling. Prepare to be enlightened and, quite possibly, startled with some refreshing views and ideas about education. Brace yourself for what is sure to be a raucous ride into the world of guerrilla homeschooling.