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Letter from a school about the DofI

Email of the Day: Hello, I am the School Secretary for the School District. I hope I have reached the correct e-mail address to make a suggestion to your *Declaration...

Homeschool before Hogwarts

For your consideration: “Hogwarts’ young witches and wizards usually start their first year when they’re around 11 years old. So how do they get an education in their first decade?...

What’s a good, quick response when people ask me about socialization?

Email of the Day: What’s a good, quick response when people ask me about socialization? Answer: “What is it that you feel *he’s missing?” (And then continue that line of...

How Can Homeschoolers Handle Being With Their Kids All Day?

“One thing that most people don’t think about is that, in the case of children being withdrawn from school in order to homeschool, the kids need time to get used...

Part time attendance and/or ancillary services

We are not the only state whose laws allow part time attendance and/or ancillary services for homeschoolers and private schoolers, but we are one of a few. Here’s what it...

Unschooling and the 11 Subjects

Email of the Day: As an unschooler how do you make sure you cover what your child is ‘supposed to know’ each year? Is there a master list or something?...

Unschooling in WA?

Email of the Day: We are looking at moving to Vancouver USA and we have unschooled our son for the last year, in Nevada. Can you give me any insight...

“I could never do that.”

Another Homeschool Secret: It’s really hard to say this to parents of public school kids who think they might want to homeschool, but think they couldn’t stand being around their...

Required hours per subject?

Email of the Day: Are there a required number of hours per subject the kids are mandated to do a day/week/year?? I just ordered grade 5 CLE for my 8yo...

Homeschooling and the Single Working Parent

Email of the Day: I’m a single parent of a 9 year old that is miserable in school and a baby due in February. It’s taking a toll on her...

Part Seven of Seven

Part Seven of Seven: “[I] could easily have schooled my own children, but I would never have deprived them from the love, security, and gift of the very highest degree...

Part Six of Seven

Part Six of Seven: “I have heard so many say that what we do with children from 9:00-3:00 can be done successfully at home in a couple of hours. Sure,...