Monthly Archives: July 2009

10 Reasons Why We Home School

By Rey | Published: July 7, 2009
Upon revealing that my wife and I home school our children, we find ourselves in heavy crossfire with an emphasis on us doing wrong by our kids. It’s interesting that the harshest attacks come from (1) single people, (2) childless people, (3) old people who grew up during an age where schools were still good, [...]
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5 Initially Wrongheaded (But Potentially Contextually Understandable) Reasons to Home School

By Rey | Published: July 6, 2009
I was planning to post this after my 10 reasons to home school, and even after my 5 stupid reasons to opt out of home school in favor of public school, but I faced another problem. What if home schooling parents started offering their opinions of what they thought were good reasons to opt out [...]
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5 Stupid Reasons Not To Home School (and Do Public School Instead)

By Rey | Published: July 3, 2009
In defensive discussions justifying my parental rights and educational choices for my children, I often find myself repeating my lists of reasons.  I have 10 solid reasons why we home-school, which I was going to post today, but then I had an internal struggle. What if people (as they sometimes do) started offering some responses [...]
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Prepackaged Town Halls?

By Rey | Published: July 2, 2009
Chip Reid and Helen Thomas against Robert Gibbs at the daily press briefing on the “tightly controlled” town hall meeting. Gibbs keeps saying “let’s have this discussion after the meeting.” Also look at how she grills George Bush and how he answers. Video after the jump.
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