Stop Using My Homeschool Success Story to Erase Others’ Educational Neglect

I am just as unhappy with stereotypes that posit all homeschoolers as backward and uneducated as I am with stereotypes that posit all homeschoolers as innovative and well educated

Dear Homeschool Kids

At the very least let’s all stop pretending like there’s nothing wrong.

Bob Adelmann’s Deceptive Use of Homeschooling Statistics

Bob Adelmann uses Lawrence Rudner’s HSLDA-funded study in a way that Rudner explicitly said it should not be used.

Homeschooled Kids Matter: A Response to Will Estrada

“Homeschooled kids do matter. The question is whether or not HSLDA will someday acknowledge that fact.”

Announcing the Results from HARO’s 2014 Survey of Homeschool Alumni

Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out is happy to announce the 1st installment of results from our 2014 Survey of Adult Alumni of the Modern Christian Homeschool Movement.

Not All Homeschoolers Are Religious (But Many Are)

“When I and other bloggers talk about some of the problems in the conservative Christian homeschooling subculture, we are informed by secular homeschool parents that not all homeschoolers are religious, and in fact that religious homeschoolers are just a minority today and not really a problem to be worried about. Well yes, we know that not all homeschoolers are religious. However, it’s a simple fact that many—perhaps even the majority—are.”

When Precision is a Red Pen

“While I want solid arguments and good data as much as the next person, even more than that I want people to feel free to tell their own story and share where they see it fitting into the whole. After all, it is because a growing group of people are telling their first-person stories that we are even discussing the need for data in the first place.”

Matt Walsh: “Let’s talk about everything as hyperbolically as possible”

“As Matt Walsh once said, ‘Let’s talk about everything as hyperbolically as possible.’ Except Matt Walsh never said that. Then again, no politician ever said, ‘Let’s treat all homeschool parents like felony child abusers,’ which was the title of Walsh’s December 18, 2013 post on homeschooling.”