Hot Topics
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."-Alfred North Whitehead
Here are a few Hot Topics that we would like to address. Our opinions, musings, thoughts on the Topics listed here and more are embedded in our lives and stories as we share them throughout these pages. These Topics are of concern to us --perhaps many of you have asked them, as well, in your search for the answer to the most important Question of all, "What is best for my child?"
Click on open links below to hear as we and others specifically and directly address these Questions. Check back as our links grow with this site.
Our Hot Topic Pages
NCLB: Our Standards of Learning
Preparedness for Citizenship & Responsibility to Society & Compelling Interest of the State
What does accountability prove?
What do our children learn from testing?
NCLB? Our Standards of Learning
Side Effects of Standardized Testing
Childhood Alliance High Stakes Testing Position Statement
What is our responsibility to society?
Compulsory Attendance
Compulsory attendance? Compulsory education? What's the difference? Why either?
Stillwater Homeschool Alliance: Compulsory Attendance
Child Abuse & Neglect & Homeschooling
The Dark Side of abuse? Does Homeschooling provide a haven for child abuse and neglect?
Stillwater Homeschool Alliance: Child Abuse & Neglect
What is child abuse and neglect and how do we prevent it?
Educational Neglect/Empowerment
How can curricula become educationally and intellectually inappropriate for well being of children?
Getting Hit on the Head Lessons
What is educational neglect and who is at risk?
Socialization
How do children learn to interact and participate in mainstream society?
What kind of socialization do children need?
Socialization: A Personal Thing
In what ways can children become isolated?
How do children learn to handle adversity and how to cooperate with others?
What does it mean to shelter a child, and when might that be a good idea?
Personal Well-Being &For the Sake of the Child & Responsibility to Children
What Special Needs do children have and how can we address them?
What defines a healthy childhood?
Can traditional schooling be harmful to children?
Detrimental Schooling: How Traditional Education Harms Children and Society
What happens to human beings when choices become unreasonably limited?
What do children need from us?
How do we empower children to become emotionally, socially and intellectually healthy, adaptive, life learners?
Accepting What We Know, Wanting to Know More
Nurturing Children's Natural Love of Learning
What is our responsibility to our children?
What is in the compelling interest of children?
When does the state have the right to intervene for the sake of the child?
When should the state intervene for the sake of the child?
State Intervention/Parental Authority
Are there certain values that the State should ensure that children are inculcated with in order to ensure an enlightened electorate prepared for citizenship?
Should the state be setting the definition of what it means to be a child, a family, a parent?
Can and should the state enforce a one "right"way to raise a child; whose "right"prevails?
Can most parents be trusted to raise their own children: what about those who can't and how should they effect the rest of us?
When is education a function of the state that can and should duly and rightfully usurp parental responsibility and authority?
A Homeschooler's Changing Perspective on Authority Figures
Opting Out of PS/Responsibility to Society
How do we prepare children for the betterment of society?
Expert's Concerned about Children's Creative Thinking
Treat Life as a Workshop to Find Out Who You Are
Parents as Teachers/Parental Well-Being
References:
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling,
by John Holt & Pat Farenga
Taking Charge Through Homeschooling: Personal & Political Empowerment, by Larry & Susan Kaseman
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