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The Nuts and Bolts of Homeschooling
Today’s homeschooling is far more about “home” than “school.” Few Americans today have the close-knit family life that so many Americans once had—before compulsory education pulled the children from their parents’ responsibility, beginning in 1852 in Massachusetts. Children who attend school are raised by strangers more than by their parents. Family circles are more loose and ephemeral than ever before. In the past 150 years, schools have gained an increasing stranglehold on culture while families have lost more and more influence over their children. Is this a coincidence?
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THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE HOMESCHOOLING
No matter what one’s spiritual background and beliefs may be, the fact is that humans are mammals and mammals raise their young, teaching life skills and the ways of the species until a level of life-independence is reached and the offspring can survive and thrive on his own.
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