Our America…The Pilgrim Adventure by Susan Kilbride
New from Homeschool Book Club: Summary- Finn & Ginny’s parents are lost back in time, and the two young twins have decided to go back to early America to find them. Their search takes the twins to the Mayflower where they discover that the Pilgrims had far more adventures than...
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May
2012
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Snap up this $5 Learn Our History DVD 3-Pack!
Awesome 48-hour deal for the one-year birthday of Mike Huckabee’s Learn Our History video series. Our family loves these!!! We just watched our newest one this morning, about the Pilgrim (the kids did a video review for you). ————– IT’S LEARN OUR HISTORY’S 1ST BIRTHDAY, BUT YOU GET THE GIFT!...
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May
2012
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Homeschool Missionaries to Mexico Robbed
From Misty Marr: I would like to ask you all to pray for my parents, Mike and Pam Richardson. They are missionaries in Mexico and are presently traveling across the country hosting a series of home-school conferences. They were robbed this morning (5-10-12). We praise God that no one was...
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May
2012
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Rick Santorum’s Endorsement of Governor Mitt Romney
From Rick Santorum: On Friday, Governor Romney came to Pittsburgh for an over-hour long one-on-one meeting. The conversation was candid, collegial and focused on the issues that you helped me give voice to during our campaign; because I believe they are essential ingredients to not only winning this fall, but...
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May
2012
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10 Lessons Mike Farris Has Learned in 30 Years of Homeschooling
Great article by Homeschool Legal Defense Association’s Mike Farris. I love to hear what wisdom the home educating veterans have to share! 10 Lessons Mike Farris Has Learned in 30 Years of Homeschooling Points #4, 5 and 9 were especially helpful to me. I’d love to hear your thoughts, too!...
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May
2012
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germany
In a significant move to support the rights of home-schooling parents worldwide, the Vatican has issued a statement to the United Nations. The statement says governments “should respect the choices that parents make for their children and avoid attempts at ideological indoctrination.” Jeremiah Lorrig of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) says this is especially important in more restrictive countries. “In Sweden, for example, home-school parents have had their children taken away from them,” Lorrig notes. “In Germany, there was a story about a year ago where a family… had immigrated to Germany. They had to flee back to Iran...
Law journal argument says family’s asylum request legitimate The Romeike family (HSLDA image) The battle lines over homeschooling rights overseas and in the United States have been sharpened by the publication of a law journal article that concludes that Germany does persecute homeschoolers and that the first waves of its impact already have hit the U.S. Read full article (Thanks HSLDA for the heads up on this story)...
Susanna Dart, homeschool graduate, was the commencement speaker at the Paradise Valley Community College graduation ceremony in Arizona. You can read about her homeschool background and accomplishments at www.homeschoolingteen.com/2011/06/susanna-dart/. There you can also read her commencement speech and find out how she is able to study in Germany next year tuition-free. Susanna is also one of the teen entrepreneurs featured at the Arizona Families for Home Education Convention this year, promoting her DartsArts Custom Tie-Dyes business. Thanks to the AFHE newsletter for this tidbit! I’m glad to have discovered Homeschooling Teen Magazine now, and look forward to hearing more from them. I’m also hoping to meet Susanna...
From HSLDA: In a case decided in February, a German judge denied the Erz family permission to homeschool—even though the family was able to demonstrate they were providing a quality education. Jonathan and Irene Erz began homeschooling their children this past fall and contacted the school to make officials aware that the children would be taught at home via Clonlara, an international distance learning program used by homeschoolers abroad. Homeschooling is almost universally illegal in Germany, although several hundred families persist in teaching their children at home. Nearly all of these families operate underground or are involved in court battles. The...
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