Viele Kinder in der ganzen Welt gehen seit einem Jahr nicht mehr 5 Tage die Woche in die Schule. Coronavirus hat Schulen in vielen Ländern monatelang geschlossen und den Unterricht in die virtuelle Welt geschoben. Aber ist das wirklich Homeschooling?
Category: home school
Is “homeschool” just “school at home”?
Most of us have a pretty standard picture of what “school” is supposed to look like. Whether you look at a classroom from 1935 in Austria or more recently in the US, you would immediately be able to identify similarities. …
Can I start homeschooling in the middle of the year?
The short answer is “yes”. If for some reason, school is not working for your family anymore, you have the right to make a change. There is no deadline by which you have to have decided to homeschool. Think about it …
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Is it better to use an accredited curriculum?
Many people have heard that buzzword “accreditation” before, but have no idea what that actually means. Private schools often advertise with their accreditation credentials, while public schools rarely mention it. In fact, the public high school I graduated from lost …
Review of Singapore Primary Math Standards Edition
I used Singapore Primary Math Standards Edition 1 with my daughter during her kindergarten year.
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Maryland Homeschooling Contact Information
The following chart has links (current as of May 2020) to the website in each Maryland county where information about homeschooling can be found. The available information varies greatly from county to county. Some merely mention that a particular office …
Electronic Portfolios
The way I have presented my kids’ portfolios has changed a little over the years. I began with a binder, but moved to PowerPoints in the last couple of years. I noticed that the reviewers just copied down exactly what …
COVID-schooling is not Homeschooling
Everyone from my high school classmates to celebrities is complaining about being sudden homeschoolers during the pandemic. While, yes, their children are doing all of their school work at home, that does not make them homeschoolers. The physical location of …
Response to “The Risks of Homeschooling”
In the May/June 2020 issue of Harvard Magazine, the article “The Risks of Homeschooling” appeared. While the article makes many of the trite stereotypical assertions that homeschoolers have long dealt with, a larger concern is that Harvard has scheduled an …
What about socialization?
My neighbor once asked me about the stereotypical “s” word. My older son had already been homeschooling for a couple of years and both of my kids were playing with the neighbor’s girls, as they do all the time. The …
