The Texas Education Code requires home schools to teach the following subjects: reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics, and a course in good citizenship. There were days when that was all I could teach, having begun my home schooling career in 1993 newly pregnant and teaching a first grader, kindergartener, a three-year-old, and an eighteen-month-old. There are days…
New Home Schoolers
Just when we think we can finally see the light at the end of a school year, the thought of fall rears its ugly head. We are home schooling mothers; therefore, we must do all things perfectly. We must have the right curriculum next year; we must have it planned out, for each day, ten…
By Brian D. Ray, Ph.D I recently wrote … about the difference between “education” and “school.” Schooling, I operationally defined, is the practice of teachers instructing, teaching, or drilling students (i.e., children and youth) in specific knowledge or skills such as reading, language, mathematics, and arts in a place away from the home and, allegedly,…
By Debbie Salter Home School Parent Impacts City Council Decision The League City Council voted 4-2 on April 27, 2010, to modify the Curfew for Minors ordinance to eliminate the daytime curfew in League City for one year to see if it has an impact on the juvenile daytime crime statistics. This change required a…
Standing in the open doors of the exhibit hall, I was mesmerized. Rows of exhibitor booths and tables filled with colorful materials and supplies, audio tapes, workbooks, textbooks, and—to the complete and utter delight of this book lover-turned-home school mom—books, books, and more books! And the people! I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of…
