I have a fren, daughter 12, is concerned about school trying to vax without parental consent, I had seen some links here and there, but I didn't save them, does anyone have links for any patriot friendly homeschooling resources?
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https://homelifeacademy.com/
Great resource they make everything easy even keep track of the process and requirements for every state. They will even request a transcript for your child from the current school
Also the guys are great defenders of the family homeschooling and children in general. You can sign up for notifications and they will warn you when legislation is coming up that will affect any of these things.
https://hslda.org/
Highly encourage pulling all children out of public school.
Thank you so much!
If you have a Gab account there is a Homeschooling group that has over 60,000 members. Seems like a great resource: https://gab.com/groups/287
Love the IAHE. Sure miss the convention! Hopefully back next year. ?
The fren is an American, but currently in another country.
Firstly, there is some paperwork to do, so that you can wave it at officialdom if you have to.
I homeschooled eleven children. Still have two at home. The best resources you can provide them with are a computer and a fast connection.
I tried setting boundaries at first, but really it isn't necessary. They naturally gravitate to online video games, and before you start up about how bad gaming is, it simply isn't.
One son was fascinated with 3-D animation and became an administrator on a forum, while still at school age. He went on to get a management job at a very young age, because he was able to deal with performance management stats, when others could not. He now owns a house, outright, and has three children, all very healthy.
I can't recommend Roblox enough. Three of my kids learnt to read, write and become very comfortable with a keyboard, because of the games there. My youngest was touchtyping by the time he was ten. A lot of the games there have 'power keys' that are connected with a letter. They learn to touch type as they progress through the game.
One son is now writing a game for that platform, (age 15). (Meciuvor is the name of it, if you are interested, it is a combat game)
Roblox is awesome. My 10 yr old daughter is now learning how to code and design her own video games. By herself. I have a 20 yr old son who plays the shooter games there. I'll have him check your son's game out.
Roblox is the bee's knees.
Yes, do check it out. He has designed all sorts of weapons, that are based on real historical swords and bows.
Also, art history is an excellent subject for girls (I have two daughters with degrees in Visual art after they flew through the uni programmes, one of them is now illustrating kids books.
For some reason it is hard to refute the paintings that were painted, or twist the narrative to CRT. The history is all there, in pictures.
My grandchildren just finished a Christian based homeschool program called Abeka. I helped her teach it to them and was very impressed. It's also very affordable.
Abeka has good curriculum. They are a Christian company, but you don't have to watch the Bible classes if you do it unacredted and save all her work.
They have very good history science grammar... their math is just OK. I like Saxon best still.
Homeschool Buyers Co-op has lots of resources, free to join. Cathy Duffy reviews analyzes curricula. https://cathyduffyreviews.com/ Well-Trained Mind has a great discussion forum. Homeschooling does NOT take 7 hours a day. More like 2-3 (below highschool) and 3+ (highschool). And we always covered MORE than the schools did.
https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/?_ga=2.116342278.1690121540.1624566464-1684756739.1624566464
They will happily do more than 3 hours, when they get the hang of it.
Christopherus Homeschool is a Waldorf program run by a based lady who closed her FB homeschool groups when they banned Trump. It's a classical education that celebrates the intellectual traditions of the west. Plenty of free resources and videos on the site, and the materials I've bought (for a different age band) have been worthwhile.
https://www.christopherushomeschool.com/
No resources, since I'm still a few years away from having my first kids.
But I intend to combine different areas of every day life with academic subjects.
Cooking involves chemistry, mathematics, physics and creativity (think arts). Crafting, engineering, mathematics, physics and arts can be combined. Music can be seen through a new light via mathematics and art (identify a musical scale with colors, numbers, shapes).
You can keep kids perpetually busy while teaching them about every area of life in a way that will, I believe, have them enjoy working as opposed to loathing it like kids end up doing once they enter the school system.
You may consider looking into Charlotte Mason method for ways to approach education for your children. Here are a couple resources to get you started on finding a curriculum.
https://simplycharlottemason.com/
https://www.amblesideonline.org/
There are tons of excellent homeschool curriculum available. These are a handful I'm aware of (some we use at my home). MEP mathematics can be acquired for free and offers a K - 12 program. https://www.cimt.org.uk/projects/mepres/primary/index.htm
Saxon is also a decent program. You can typically acquire used textbooks for Saxon math for very little money. The book lessons are self explanatory. You should be able to locate supplemental problems to the problem sets already in their books. Test materials from Saxon are really optional in my opinion.
Also I have found quality math instruction provided for free by qualified / capable video content creators on sites like youtube. Actually, I have downloaded while channels when I observe them to generate excellent teaching content for math concepts and logic processes.
For history, I would suggest considering providing this child with some excellent works such as "A History of England", "Our Island Story", "Our Empire Story". Literature can be accomplished easily by having your child read some of the classics. Books of poetry are also easy to come by. Commentary on the classics and on poetry is readily available as well which can assist in potentially broadening how the child thinks about the topics of the literary work.
Also, consider biographies from historical figures and if said figures were apt to write their thoughts or publish works include those (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, federalist papers, anti-federalist papers, etc)
Don't forget to educate your child on economics. Personally, I ascribe to the Mises Institute, perhaps you approach that differently. There are some great classic works that would be good at some point to read. Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" (unabridged version). John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", Hayek's "The Road To Serfdom" and "The Road From Serfdom".
Really there are a near infinite number of ways to approach education and home schooling. I would encourage you to not be afraid of screwing up your child's education. Don't try to patten yourself after the failing public schools which approach educating from the Prussian Model on education. The fact is there are substantially better methods and approaches available when you take ownership of educating your own children.
Good luck to you and your friend.
Tell your fren to take a year off. Do the unschooling thing for at least a year. Don’t worry, stats show unschooling is just as good as public schooling, but with benefits like no indoctrination. Been homeschooling my kids from the start, not unschooling but still relaxed.
I wish it were appropriate to tell people exactly how great homeschooling is and how bad public (even private) schools are. Maybe just one day a month. But instead I usually just bite my tongue.