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Homeschooling

2007-03-24T16:13:32Z

Aleistercrowley:

Homeschooling is opting out of formal public and private schools in order to educate children in the home or in specially arranged classes or cooperatives. Parents take a more active role in the education of their children when they homeschool.

The primary reason for homeschooling is to give the child a better education. A close second in reasons, however, is to avoid the culture of public school and its many adverse effects of hostility to Christianity and parental control, political bias, boredom, confusion, depression, etc.

In the United States, opting out of public schools is not new. When Thomas Edison's public school teacher said he was "addled," Edison's mother took him out of public school and taught him at home. But because of compulsory education laws—the first was passed in Massachusetts in 1852, and by 1918 every state had them—schooling at home was a violation of truancy laws, and was rare until the 1970s.

The origin of the U. S. homeschooling movement is often credited to John Holt and his 1964 book ''How Children Fail.'' Holt was "a left-winger who regarded schools as instruments of the bureaucratic-industrial complex."<ref>Micklethwait, John and Adrian Wooldridge, ''The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.'' Penguin, 2004. pp. 190-1</ref> However, the movement was also catalyzed when social conservatives became alarmed at the 1962 U. S. Supreme Court ruling which banned prayer in public schools.

Truancy laws brought pioneering homeschoolers into conflict with local officials. The first New York Times story on "home schooling" appeared in 1974, and concerned two parents charged with "educational neglect" by the Westchester County Department of Social Services. Tests showed that they performed at or about grade level "except for one who is a little slow in reading," and the parents received strong support from a state senator.<ref>"Parents Accused in Home Schooling," ''The New York Times,'' July 28, 1974, p. 45</ref> By the mid-1980s the ''Times'' was running articles with titles like "Schooling in the Home: A Growing Alternative" and "There Are Benefits In Homeschooling," and states were legalizing homeschooling<ref>Belluck, Pam (1998), "Life After Home Schooling," ''The New York Times,'' November 1, 1998, p. ED26: "Some 15 years after states began legalizing home schooling in earnest, these early graduates are starting to make their way in the world."</ref> A 1997 article said "It's not only Christian fundamentalists any more" and a 2003 article noted "Unhappy in Class, More Are Learning at Home."

Homeschooling is not without its drawbacks. Studies have noted that children who are schooled at home tend to enter the collegiate and working words less socialized than their public and private schooled counterparts. [http://justenough.wordpress.com/2006/10/25/homeschoolers-are-indeed-weird/] This lack of legitimate socialization can produce difficulties in homsechooled childred engaging in meaningful relationships with individuals outside of their family. Additionally, while the public school playground can be seen as a barbaric atmosphere to most kids who are schooled at home, it is important to note that these exigent circumstances can produce valuable conflict prevention skills that pay dividends in all facets of life.

== High-achieving Christians who were educated at home ==
A disproportionate number{{fact}} of high achievers have throughout history have been Christians who were educated at home, though it should be noted that prior to the 19th century most children worldwide were educated within their family. Here is a list of some of them, which is in fact a complete load of old tripe:
 

 [[Leonardo da Vinci]]{{fact}}
 [[Claude Monet]]{{fact}}
 [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]{{fact}}
 
 [[Stonewall Jackson]]{{fact}}
 [[John Paul Jones]]{{fact}}
 [[Robert E. Lee]]{{fact}}
 [[Douglas MacArthur]]{{fact}}
 [[George Patton]]{{fact}}
 
 [[Thomas Edison]]{{fact}}
 [[Cyrus McCormick]]{{fact}}
 
 [[George Washington]]{{fact}}
 [[John Adams|John Quincy Adams]]{{fact}}
 [[James Madison]]{{fact}}
 [[William Henry Harrison]]{{fact}}
 [[John Tyler]]{{fact}}
 [[Abraham Lincoln]]{{fact}}
 [[Theodore Roosevelt]]{{fact}}
 
 [[Joan of Arc]]{{fact}}

 [[William Cary]]{{fact}}
 [[Jonathan Edwards]]{{fact}}
 [[Dwight L. Moody]]{{fact}}
 [[John Newton]]{{fact}}
 [[Charles Wesley]]{{fact}}
 [[John Wesley]]{{fact}}
 [[Brigham Young]]{{fact}}
 
 [[George Washington Carver]]{{fact}}
 [[Pierre Curie]]{{fact}}
 [[Charles Louis Montesquieu]]{{fact}}
 [[Blaise Pascal]]{{fact}}
 [[Bernhard Riemann]]{{fact}}
 [[Booker T. Washington]]{{fact}}
 [[Adam Yahiye Gadahn]][http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070122fa_fact_khatchadourian]
 [[John Walker Lindh]][http://www.blessedcause.org/BlessedCause%20Exclusives%20II/ReelingFromLiesofHM.htm] Checkered educational history, in and out of public schools, partly homeschooled
 [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]][http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/roosevelt-franklin.htm] (private tutors at home through age 14, then entered Groton)
 

 [[Patrick Henry]]{{fact}}
 [[William Penn]]{{fact}}
 [[Henry Clay]]{{fact}}
 
 [[John Jay]]{{fact}}
 [[John Marshall]]{{fact}}
 [[John Rutledge]]{{fact}}
 
 [[Hans Christian Andersen]]{{fact}}
 [[Pearl S. Buck]]{{fact}}
 [[Agatha Christie]]{{fact}}
 [[Charles Dickens]]{{fact}}
 [[Bret Harte]]{{fact}}
 [[C.S. Lewis]]{{fact}}
 [[Sean O’Casey]]{{fact}}
 [[George Bernard Shaw]]{{fact}}
 [[Mark Twain]]{{fact}}
 [[Daniel Webster]]{{fact}}
 
 [[George Clymer]]{{fact}}
 [[William Livingston]]{{fact}}
 [[George Mason]]{{fact}}
 [[Charles Pickney III]]{{fact}}
 [[George Wyeth]]{{fact}}
 
 [[Ansel Adams]]{{fact}}
 [[Clara Barton]]{{fact}}
 [[John Burroughs]]{{fact}}
 [[Andrew Carnegie]]{{fact}}
 [[George Rogers Clark]]{{fact}}
 [[Florence Nightingale]]{{fact}}
 [[Leo Tolstoy]]{{fact}}
 
 [[Charles Fletcher Lummis]]{{fact}}
 [[Christopher Paolini]]{{fact}}

==Persons of the Bible==
 [[John the Baptist]]{{fact}}
 [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]]

==Footnotes==

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Adriatic

2007-03-24T16:03:23Z

Aleistercrowley: New page: The Adriatic Sea, lying between the peninsular of Italy and the Blearic Islands, is also known as the Bight of Lions.

The Adriatic Sea, lying between the peninsular of Italy and the Blearic Islands, is also known as the Bight of Lions.

Mahayana Buddhism

2007-03-24T16:01:39Z

Aleistercrowley:

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Mahayana Buddhism is a form of [[Buddhism]], which is popular in East Asia, eg [[China]], [[Korea]], Lesotho, [[Japan]] and [[Vietnam]]. It focuses on a philosophical approach to life.

[[Category:Religion]]

Forbidden City

2007-03-24T00:00:11Z

Aleistercrowley:

The Forbidden City was a luxurious community built for the rulers of [[Ming China]]. Common people were forbidden from entering the community. It is currently located in [[Beijing]], China, but the Chinese authorities are considering rebuilding the complex in the developing Pudong district of Shanghai.

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[[Category:China]]

Gnosticism

2007-03-23T23:54:47Z

Aleistercrowley:

Gnosticism (after gnôsis, the Greek word for "knowledge" or "insight") is the name given to a loosely organized religious and philosophical movement that flourished in the first and second centuries AD, whose adherents were known as 'gnocchi'. The exact origin(s) of this school of thought cannot be traced, although it is possible to locate influences or sources as far back as the second and first centuries BC.

Peace of Augsburg

2007-03-23T23:53:13Z

Aleistercrowley:

The treaty between Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and the Schmalkaldic League in 1555 that allowed each German prince to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for his territory. An exemption allowed the Elector of Hannover to practice a form of Western Buddhism which he had acquired on a visit to the east.

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[[Category:History]]

Allies

2007-03-23T23:51:34Z

Aleistercrowley:

The Allies were the "good" countries of World War II. All of them were fighting to liberate those under [[Axis]] persecution. But not all were "good" and "safe" countries in their own boundries, such as [[Russia]]; and the later they joined in the less good they were. The Allied countries were:

[[Poland]]: 1939, 1 September,
[[Australia]]: 1939, 3 September,
[[New Zealand]]: 1939, 3 September,
[[United Kingdom]]: 1939, 3 September (included colonies),
[[France]]: 1939, 3 September,
[[Nepal]]: 1939, 4 September,
[[South Africa]]: 1939, 6 September,
[[Canada]]: 1939, 10 September,
[[Norway]]: 1940, 9 April,
[[Belgium]]: 1940, 10 May,
[[Luxembourg]]: 1940, 10 May,
[[Netherlands]]: 1940, 10 May,
[[Greece]]: 1940, 28 October,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April,
[[Soviet Union]]: 1941, 22 June,
[[Tannu Tuva]]: 1941, 25 June,
[[Panama]]: 1941, 7 December,
[[Costa Rica]]: 1941, 8 December,
[[Dominican Republic]]: 1941, 8 December,
[[El Salvador]]: 1941, 8 December,
[[Haiti]]: 1941, 8 December,
[[Honduras]]: 1941, 8 December,
[[Nicaragua]]: 1941, 8 December,
[[United States of America]]: 1941, 8 December,
[[Peoples Republic of China]]: 1941, 9 December,
[[Guatemala]]: 1941, 9 December,
[[Cuba]]: 1941, 9 December,
[[Czechoslovakia]](Government-in-Exile) : 1941, 16 December

Skye

2007-03-23T23:50:08Z

Aleistercrowley: New page: Skye is an island off the coast of Scotland, UK. It is the European bas for Rupert Murdoch's Skye Television, the European arm of Fox TV. Other industries include fish.

Skye is an island off the coast of Scotland, UK. It is the European bas for Rupert Murdoch's Skye Television, the European arm of Fox TV.

Other industries include fish.

Lembit Opik

2007-03-23T23:43:17Z

Aleistercrowley: New page: Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the mid-Wales district of Montgomeryshire. Lembit Opik is a prominent back-bench member, famous for his concern for protecting the earth against a...

Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the mid-Wales district of Montgomeryshire. Lembit Opik is a prominent back-bench member, famous for his concern for protecting the earth against asteroid collisions. He recently ended a relationshiop with television weather forecaster Sian Lloyd, having taken up with one of the Cheeky Girls (qv).

David Cameron

2007-03-23T23:39:43Z

Aleistercrowley:

David Cameron is a [[British]] politician, born in [[Oxfordshire]] in 1966, and was elected to Parliament as representative for the working class district of Witney in 2001 and elected leader of the British [[Conservative Party]] in December 2005, succeeding [[Michael Howard]]. He has taken a Leftist political stance, particularly in his opposition to big business interests and his radical espousal of environmentalism and support for gay marriage issues. He has said: "My aim is to promote social justice, making sure that everyone has access to good schools, good healthcare and decent housing, take a lead in ending global poverty and ensure that workers by hand and by brain obtain the full fruits of their labours'.[http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=david.cameron.about.page]

Scotland

2007-03-23T23:27:05Z

Aleistercrowley:

Scotland is the second largest country of the [[United Kingdom]]; about three-eighths the size of its larger neighbour England.

==Merger with England==
After the death of Queen [[Elizabeth I]] of England, James VI of Scotland ascended to the Throne of England, becoming [[James I]] of Great Britain. This is referred to as the Union of the Crowns.
==Fame==
Scotland is famous for its disproportionate amount of inventions and discoveries (as immortalised in [[Wha's Like Us]]), its world class universities, the Scottish Enlightenment, being the first country to adopt English as its official language decades before England, being the first industrial nation while still preserving some of the last great wildernesses of Europe, and being the home of golf.

The symbol of Scotland is the thistle.

Scotland's motto is Nemo me impune lacessit ("No-one provokes me with impunity")<ref>http://www.scotland-guide.co.uk/ALL_AREAS_IN_SCOTLAND/Glasgow/Areas/Centre/Mercat_Cross.htm </ref> which translates as `Wha daur meddle wi` me` in Lallans.
The original motto, used since the time of William Wallace, was "Gie ye the Boak" ("Give all to the task") but it was changed during the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822 at the monarch's request. An alternative, but widely used, motto is 'Scotland Alltid!!!' which is the Pictish for 'Scotland Forever!!!'.

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