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Leaving a Private School? Consider Distance Learning

Schools can fail students just as much as a student can fail in school. Sometimes, for reasons ranging from teacher-student conflict, to issues with safety, a child simply does not “fit in” and succeed at a particular school. Most of the time, the solution often involves enrollment in a different school. What if the problem though is not the school, but the system and the approach in general? Parents often wrongly assume that paying for an education automatically translates to academic success.

What happens when the decision to attend private school backfires and a student does not succeed? Besides losing out on a significant amount of money, parents whose children have to transfer out of private school have to make a decision as to whether or not their child will now move on to public school, or find another alternative.

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Homeschooling Why It’s Important To Everyone

President Obama is pushing for so-called national standards. I worry that if the Education Establishment has its way, we’ll have one type of government school–all mediocre, all overflowing with social engineering and indoctrination. I think everyone should resist Obama’s plans. States should have their separate standards; and every citizen should support as much diversity as possible. Support vouchers. Support charter schools. Support private schools. And support homeschooling.

The following is one of several attempts I’ve made to defend and justify homeschooling on broad strategic grounds:

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Homeschooling Why It’s Important To Everyone

President Obama is pushing for so-called national standards. I worry that if the Education Establishment has its way, we’ll have one type of government school–all mediocre, all overflowing with social engineering and indoctrination. I think everyone should resist Obama’s plans. States should have their separate standards; and every citizen should support as much diversity as possible. Support vouchers. Support charter schools. Support private schools. And support homeschooling.

The following is one of several attempts I’ve made to defend and justify homeschooling on broad strategic grounds:

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