Home School Online

Woops. I mentioned that Obama seemed to support homeschooling and that was all that I knew. Woops. Now I now more:

 Ron Paul – R – Big active supporter of homeschooling. My commitment to ensuring home schooling remains a practical alternative for American families is unmatched by any Presidential candidate… I will use my authority to prevent the Department of Education from regulating home school activities. 

 Rudy Giulani -  Every parent in America should have the right to send their child to the school of their choice, including the right for responsible parents to choose home schooling. The government should not force parents to send their children to failing or inadequate schools.  I (the editor) added the bold on responsible. That’s a big issue.  One that I cut both ways on.

  Other posts on this topic have surely dug digger…So far, I’ve found:

Inundated Calvist Post in Oct.

On the Issues which is detailed substantative info on the Candidates on education.

Surely, there must be a few detailed homeschooling-focused commentaries comparing the candidates. Admittedly, I’ve only started googling. But I did get a few quick emails in response to my simple comment on Obama and homeschooling and the Presidential Election…I think someone must be using alerts very effectively…..

I had not heard any candidate (or President) make any statements about homeschooling.

I did just read on an Obama website that Obama supports homeschooling:

 On page 344 of The Audacity of Hope, he writes: “none of these policies need discourage families from deciding to keep a parent at home…For some families, that may mean doing without certain material comforts. For others it may mean home schooling….Whatever the case may be, such decisions should be honored.

Does anybody have any other quotes, comments, or insights into the Presidential opinions on homeschooling?

Does anybody have any first hand knowledge to review this literature?
I’ll check to see if they are on Amazon and if there are reviews there.

Homeschool Fiction Suggestions (from Worldcat):

Chicken Friend
by Nicola Morgan. 2005, 2004 1st US edition. Fiction: Elementary and junior high school. 148 pages.
Cambridge, Mass. Candlewick Press, ISBN: 0763627356. 9780763627355

When her parents decide to move their family to the English countryside, homeschool their children, and raise chickens, Becca tries to make friends with her new neighbors by hiding her diabetes and throwing a twelfth birthday party for herself.

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Kandoo Kangaroo hops into homeschool
by Susan Ratner; Bryan Miller. 2000. Fiction : Primary school.
Green Forest, AR : Master Books, ISBN: 0890512906. 9780890512906

A mother kangaroo realizes that her six-year-old is ready to start home schooling.

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Ida B: –and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world
by Katherine Hannigan. 2004 1st ed.  Fiction : Elementary and junior high school 246 p.
New York, NY : Greenwillow Books,
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family’s apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

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Addie McCormick and the Computer Pirate
by Leanne Lucas. 1994. Fiction : Juvenile audience 138 pages. Eugene, Ore. : Harvest House.

While her school is being repaired following a tornado and she is attending a cooperative home school, Addie becomes involved in a mystery surrounding the school’s computer software.

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Mystery at Loch Ness
by Rebecca Price Janney. 1997. Fiction : Elementary and junior high school 135 p.
Sisters, Or. : Multnomah Fiction,
While visiting the virtual reality Loch Ness monster exhibit at a nauticus museum, a group of Christian home school students travels back in time to Scotland and to 1934.

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Secret of the Lost Colony
by Rebecca Price Janney. 1997
Fiction : Elementary and junior high school 137 pages. Sisters, Or. : Multnomah Fiction.
Lindsey, Andrew, and Ben travel back in time with their home-school teacher to the English colony on Roanoke Island, where the people are struggling to survive an unfriendly environment and a problem of low supplies.

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Search for Amelia Earhart
by Rebecca Price Janney. 1997.  Fiction : Elementary and junior high school.  133 pages.
Sisters: Multnomah Publishers.

While talking about Amelia Earhart during their flight to Hawaii, a group of Christian home school students and their tutor travel back to the time of this famous aviator.

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The Home School Detectives is a mystery series from InterVarsity Press, and is recommended for children ages 8-12. Follow the fast-paced adventures of Billy, Rebecca, Carlos, Josh, Emily and the rest of the gang as they overcome false leads and follow clues to the exciting conclusion.

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Note all the other post about homeschool fiction with reviews of Surviving the Applewhites,  Schooled,  and The Adventures of Lil’ Wolf, Twinkie, Toes, and Flower Girl in the Homeschool Forest.