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Homeschooling with God in the driver’s seat
By Yvonne Clark As a mother who teaches her young children at home, I am frequently asked, “What are you gonna do about teaching chemistry?” Admittedly, chemistry is not the only subject that people are concerned about, sometimes it’s also physics, foreign language, calculus, or biology. Homeschooling is popular enough that most people know a
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Instilling honor through literature
By Cindy Rollins Last month we learned that we are failing to give our boys a reason to learn. We learned that boys are motivated by honor and that our society has left them without hope. We also learned that one antidote to the problem may be using great literature to motivate our sons to pursue honor.
Opportunities await in slow demise of nation’s administrative utopias
Opportunities await in slow demise of nation’s administrative utopias By David Tulis On April 18 the Times Free Press ran a front-page story about teacher tenure in the area’s compulsory school systems. After three years teaching, a state-trained professional on a county school payroll can receive
Remembering why we are homeschooling
Recently the homeschool dads who meet for coffee and bagels at the Hixson Panera every Friday morning before 7 a.m. were visited by a faithful Christian man whose dilemma is this: He has a teenage daughter whom he is thinking of putting into public school so that she will have options and can get credits,
A magical formula for homeschooling success
By Cindy Rollins Twenty years ago my oldest child was 5 years old. I had been reading about homeschooling since before he was born, so you can bet I was rarin’ to go. I have such fond memories of that first year sitting on the couch reading about Daniel Boone, Dan Beard and Teddy Roosevelt. I modeled
The narrow gate or the wide way?
Noted public figures such as former Sen. Frist keep trying to fix the factory school using worn-out tools: Tighter testing, better surveillance, centralization, narrowed goals and downwardly revised meanings of success. Can we benefit by learning from their labors? By Cory Bennett It is generally recognized
Educating barbarians or boys
By Cindy Rollins When listening to criticisms of homeschooling, it doesn’t take one long to hear that it is not good for moms to homeschool older boys. Homeschooling after 7th grade may be great for girls but mother-son relationships can get tricky and it is best for boys to have male role models,
Economic chaos and personal responsibility
By Jon Rector In Tuesday’s Times Free Press appeared a story that told how President Obama and his treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, want to assign new regulatory powers to the Federal Reserve System “to guard against the types of risks that could bring down the entire system.” This sort of language
Are we really homeschooling?
By Randy McCoy That question was at the heart of the discussions during the recent annual meeting of the Tennessee Home Education Association in Nashville. My wife and I sat with the pioneers of the Tennessee homeschooling movement for a full day and considered, debated, and reconsidered the very core