Home-schooling grows quickly in United States


COLUMBIA, Maryland (Reuters) - Elizabeth and Teddy Dean are learning about the Italian scientist Galileo, so they troop into the kitchen, where their mother Lisa starts by reviewing some facts about the Renaissance.

Elizabeth, 11, and Teddy, 8, have never gone to school. Their teachers are primarily their parents, which puts them into what is believed to be the fast-growing sector of the U.S. education system -- the home-school movement.


Nobody is quite sure exactly how many American children are being taught at home. The National Center for Education Statistics, in a 2003 survey, put the number that year at 1.1 million. The Home School Legal Defense Association, which represents some 80,000 member families, says the figure now is quite a bit higher -- between 1.7 and 2.1 million.


But there is no disagreement about the explosive growth of the movement -- 29 percent from 1999 to 2003 according to the NCES study, or 7 to 15 percent a year according to HSLDA.

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This is good news. Once we get most of the white children out of the jewish influenced brainwashing institutions (and away from subhumans who will continue to go there), we will increase our chances of success by leaps and bounds. Every week I have to counter the lies "taught" to my daughter at the public school.

I am currently putting together a curriculum for my children. The experiment with my son is going quite well, and I am convinced that homeschooling is the way to go.

I highly recommend that parents get together to form a homeschool-coalition, with parents working together to teach children in groups. Our children need to learn unity, as unity is severely lacking among aryans these days. White kids getting beat up by gangs of animals and no other whites coming to the aid of the victim should be a sign. I teach my children self-defense, and I recommend the same to all of the parents that I know.

Home schoolers put classical back into education

By Juliet Taylor

03/01/2006

Latin is alive and well with a group of Clarke home school students.

In 2001, Judy Taylor, Cindy Leahy and Dana Heidelberger were immersed in the educations of their own children. As home school mothers, they decided that they could provide their children with a better education than could the public schools.

To home-school in Clarke County, written notification of intent must be post-marked no later than Aug. 15. Intent must be re-submitted annually. You do not need permission, and the rule is based on state law, not county. At the end of the school year the law requires most individuals to show some evidence of progress for the child. This can be a portfolio of the child's schoolwork, an evaluation by a certified teacher or a standardized academic test. (Individuals who file intent based on religion or who are certified teachers are exempt from this by state law.)

“We are a progressive school district,” said Matthew Eberhardt, Clarke County Schools assistant superintendent. “We established in 2001 a policy which allows any school-aged resident of Clarke County to take part in any classes as needed that the public school system offers. The Clarke County School District prides itself with a good relationship with the home-school community,” said Eberhardt.
“Statistically, home school children score 15 - 25 percent above the average public school student on standardized tests. They also score higher on the SAT and ACT,” Taylor said.

The three were so thrilled with the results they saw in the educational development of their own children that they decided to combine their efforts and resources. They joined forces with Susan Shearer, a retired Latin public school teacher with 30 years’ experience, and formed “Classical Cottage,” a home school cooperative.

The group meets every Wednesday at the Berryville Baptist Church from 8:25 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. This year's group is comprised of 160 students ranging in ages from 3 – 17, and also includes at least one parent per child (children at the school must be chaperoned by a parent).

“A classical education trains a person to be skilled at thinking, not filled with facts, by which one is educated in a modern curriculum,” Taylor said.

The school's Latin-based curriculum was founded on the educational philosophies of Dorothy Sayers which are documented in her essay, “The Lost Tools of Learning” (1947). Sayers was a member of a group of renowned theologians and academics such as C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien and Owen Barfield at Oxford. She was a scholar and an expert on the middle Ages.

“The sole end of education,” wrote Sayers, “is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”

In the grammar phase, students at Classical College under age 10 focus on the grammar of language through the study of Latin and exposure to such living languages as French and Spanish. Powers of memory and observation are strengthened through the study of Latin which enhances the student’s studies of English grammar, ancient history, mythology, geography and science.

Students between the ages 10 – 16 participate in the logic stage, which entails the intense study of Latin, independent writing and logic classes. A two-year writing program is offered, the Progymnasmata, and is recommended before formal logic. Students are encouraged to participate in the Junior Classical League and Certamen competitions in order to broaden their knowledge of classical history, mythology and culture.

Students between ages 14 – 18 study rhetoric and learn the art of articulating ideas for the purpose of persuasion. Previous study of Latin, logic and Progymnasmata courses in the grammar and logic phases will have prepared students for Rhetoric.

The curriculum does not include theology, as it believes religion is a family's responsibility. However, classes do reflect a Christian world view. For instance, history is cited as having occurred either “before the flood,” or “after.” Further, arbitration techniques listed for teachers in the school's handbook cite the Biblical pattern of confession, repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation, as well as biblical references to support it (Matthew 18:15, Galatians 6:1, Ephesians 4:15 and Romans 15:14).

Classical Cottage students have been successful at recent competitions. Shearer, who heads the Certamen team (Certamen is Latin for contest or struggle) led her team to many wins at the Jan. 18 Riverbend High School Tournament in Fredericksburg, Va. The competitions have four areas - Latin grammar, Roman history, Roman culture and Greek and Roman mythology.

“On the state level,” Heidelberger said, “we have received numerous compliments and have been informally interviewed several times.”

Classical Cottage's real-life success stories, however, will be read well into the future. Taylor's daughter, Joanna, is in tenth grade and will be the first student to graduate from the Trivium curriculum. “She will probably go on to Patrick Henry College,” said Taylor, “which is a classical college. We will probably see the results then.”

For information on Classical Cottage enrollment or how to home-school your child in Clarke, Frederick or Winchester counties, contact Judy Taylor, principal of Classical Cottage and home-school area liaison at 540-955-4678 or judithxxx@yahoo.com, Dana Heidelberger at dheidel @direcway.com or Cindy Leahy at tceleahy@visuallink.com.

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...Latin is alive and well with a group of Clarke home school students.

“We are a progressive school district,” said Matthew Eberhardt, Clarke County Schools assistant superintendent....

The three were so thrilled with the results they saw in the educational development of their own children that they decided to combine their efforts and resources. They joined forces with Susan Shearer, a retired Latin public school teacher with 30 years’ experience, and formed “Classical Cottage,” a home school cooperative.

The group meets every Wednesday at the Berryville Baptist Church from 8:25 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. ...

The school's Latin-based curriculum was founded on the educational philosophies of Dorothy Sayers... Sayers was a member of a group of renowned theologians and academics...

The curriculum does not include theology, as it believes religion is a family's responsibility. However, classes do reflect a Christian world view. For instance, history is cited as having occurred either “before the flood,” or “after.” Further, arbitration techniques listed for teachers in the school's handbook cite the Biblical pattern of confession, repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation, as well as biblical references to support it (Matthew 18:15, Galatians 6:1, Ephesians 4:15 and Romans 15:14)....

It sounds like this area, Clarke County and surrounds, coincides with historic "Mosby's Confederacy" of northern Virginia. There is no doubt that home-schooling is the best way for White parents to take control of their childrens' precious, impressionable minds, but unless these group plans are ethnocentric, insulated from this entirely unnecessary, universalist Xian indocrination, they will surely, eventually be co-opted and deliberately diluted with niggers, Mexicans, Jews, etc. to conform with the State's status quo of maximum racial diversity. This Latin teacher, Susan Shearer, who has attached herself to this Xian-oriented home-school group, could very well be a Jew (as with Hollywood actors Harry and Norma).

I remember reading several years ago that 75% of home-school cirricula were Xian based. That left 25% which were not. The latter is the quarter we should be looking more closely at. As race-thinkers, we'll be better off when these percentages are reversed. The Jew patriarch Noah and his mythical "flood," notwithstanding, Latin, and Classical education are White things, not Xian, not Jewish.