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Home Schooling

Homeschooling is a legal option for parents to educate their children at home rather than attending a private or government school. It is INDEPENDENT of the public school system and its funding. What homeschooling is NOT: Programs such as alternate education programs where parents educate children at home, but with funding and oversight from the public school system, are not homeschooling. They are public school programs which allow parents to educate at home. Charter schools are not homeschooling. They are taxpayer funded. Homeschooling and public education are mutually exclusive. By its very nature, homeschooling implies familial control rather than state control.

Please submit sites that deal specifically with homeschooling. Regional-specific sites should be submitted in the homeschooling subcategories. Sites submitted to the general homeschooling category often take longer to get reviewed. Please do NOT submit any site related to charter schools, alternative education programs, or other government funded programs. These are NOT homeschooling, but alternative public schooling, and belong in the public school areas. Thank you.

Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason is a homeschooling style that emphasizes narration, nature, outdoor activities, and living books.

Please submit only those sites which are exclusively Charlotte Mason-related. General homeschooling sites that contain CM sections belong in the Homeschooling section.

Middle and High School

Please submit only those middle and high schools that do not require physical attendance of the school by the students.

Military

Homeschooling info relevant to those on military bases, including APO and FPO.

Please submit support groups, news articles, laws, information, and anything else homeschool and military related.

News and Media

Stories and essays and such _about_ home schooling -- factual stories that just tell it like it is (possibly positive, possibly negative, but _about_ home schooling). Home schooling issues (including editorials about why it's good or bad to home school) have a category in Society/Issues/Education/Home_Schooling.

Stories and essays and such _about_ home schooling -- factual stories that just tell it like it is (possibly positive, possibly negative, but _about_ home schooling).

Home schooling issues (including editorials about why it's good or bad to home school) have a category in Society/Issues/Education/Home_Schooling.

Regional

Please submit the top URL.

Religious

Sites for and about homeschooling done for reasons of religious belief.

Please submit the top URL of sites that are of interest solely to Christian homeschoolers. Homeschooling sites that are of interest to more than Christians should be placed in the general homeschooling category, even if they are Christian in nature.

Unschooling

Unschooling is an educational philosophy based on the idea that children are natural learners, not needing to be led or filled with information, but learning best when they study what interests them in their own way and at their own pace. Unschooling involves letting a child choose when, how, and if to learn a specific topic. It is providing an atmosphere rich in resources, then letting the child learn what she chooses and needs to learn for her own life.

Non-coercive, interest-led, home and community-based, learner-directed education for all ages (also known as life learning, unschooling, natural learning, and free-range learning).

As a general rule, unschoolers are homeschoolers, but not all homeschoolers are unschoolers. The main qualifier is whether education is parent-directed or child-directed (unschooling).

Please submit sites that relate specifically to Unschooling. These may include sites about the philosophy, practice, or personal experience.