Educated women have fewer children, are wealthier and are less likely to accept fundamentalist extremism. If we want a safer world, we should consider the utility of spending dollars on educating young people as an alternative to troops and weapons.
—Lawrence M. Krauss, “How Women Can Save the Planet“
by VorJack
In reading Robert Kunzman’s Write These Laws on Your Children, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the families involved. I wouldn’t necessarily want to live with any of them, and they’re all pretty conservative, but they mostly seem like they’d make good neighbors. Granted, Kunzman may be going out of his way to [...]
In response to some of the debate we’ve been having about his new book, Robert Kunzman has written to us with some concerns about some of the the stats and studies that have been thrown around. He maintains a site which summarizes his conclusions from studying the data: Three Key Points about Homeschooling.
In brief:
1. [...]
By Vorjack
This is a continuation of my review for Robert Kunzman’s Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling.
Getting Testy about Testing
For an atheist who’s only experience with Christian home-schooling is the movie Jesus Camp, this book may come as a surprise. Many of the families are open minded [...]
By Vorjack
My mother recently admitted to me that if she had it to do over again, I would have been home-schooled. This was a shock, since my mother recently retired after 40 years of being a middle school science teacher. My mother has resisted all attempts to get her to teach outside her [...]
by Vorjack
A scene of depravity from Robert Kunzman’s Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling:
Shortly thereafter, as I gather up my things to leave, I tell the kids that I’ll be back tomorrow to hang out again. As I head to the front door, four-year-old Jacob starts getting [...]
Yesterday’s post on homeschooling turned into a fairly heated debate, with one of our readers (who I shall not name lest I incur her wrath) managing to insult McDonald’s employees, homeschoolers, and brgulker. So I thought this video might be fitting:
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