Homeschooling

Essay

Why I Home-Schooled my Kids

Convention has us outsourcing our children’s…

This article is good and the commenter that also mentioned gender was right on the money as well. There has been an increase in homeschooling in the black community because the children that are creative or may need a little more time are placed in special education or labeled problem child. The schools are stopping anything creative and turning…

How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum

Subversion

“The Diamond Age” by Neil Stephenson deals pretty heavily with this question, with my interpretation of the underlying theme being roughly: 
If children of comfortable, wealthy citizens are to make anything honest, anything valuable of themselves, the ingredient they have to be taught is subversion — a…

Today, I was told by a young man that gender inequality doesn’t exist.

Thanks for sharing more details about your family’s experience. You have clearly put a lot of effort into your approach. I wonder what it would look like to loop some of the subjects/topics together under themes. Like, if he loves blacksmithing (or masonry in general), he designs an investigation that answers questions he has about blacksmithing:

Acceptable Adult Behavior

My oldest has been spending more time with me this past week than she has in a while, quite literally coming with…

Homeschooling my Black son for liberation.

Part of an EmbraceRace series on homeschooling & race

Homeschooling Bee: What I’ve Learned So Far

I took Bee out of school on Wednesday, December 14th. I started homeschooling her…

This is on our homeschool reading list.