TIME Pacific has a positive article about homeschooling in Australia and New Zealand. The article had this fun quote "There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. It is a prison (where teachers) discourse without charm on subjects they don't understand and don't care about." The quote is attributed to George Bernard Shaw, who the article says was partly homeschooled.
I enjoyed Lydia Lovic's recent column reviewing "Raising Babies -- Should Under Threes Go to Nursery?" by Australian psychologist Steve Biddulph. He argues that day care is damaging to babies' brain chemistry. Biddulph says research has found that children develop best in a one-on-one environment. Lydia had a powerful closing line: "For the record, I don't stay home with our baby because we can afford to. I stay home with her because we can't afford not to."
Valerie Bonham Moon has a mind-boggling post about just how evil are some public schools. You might want to sit down here. Rather than fess up with high drop out rates some public schools are marking the students as homeschoolers. This does two things. It makes the public schools look better, and makes homeschoolers look bad.
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