I’ve only known one kid who did a couple of grades at home. She is in university now and doing very well.

As someone who was public-schooled, home schooling is another universe to me, and I understand home school materials are a huge and growing business in the US.

I meant Conservapedia, they posted clearly they are an alternative and are taylored for US home schoolers.

I can’t shake it’s a parody though. Either than or kids are doing a fair bit of the contributing. It’s a facinating read, I spent a fair bit of time there.

Separatist folk don’t worry me, they facinate me, and I lay no claim to understanding on an experiential level.:^)

Here’s the first

http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2007/02/making_light_ta.html

Here’s the second

http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2007/02/attention_high_.html

In the second, I’m asking readers who may be k-12 teachers to grade the quality of the posts.

Conservapedia is for home schooled Americans - a unique universe, an aberant altar, a disassociated realm.

Is it Conservapedia or homeschoolers who are the “unique universe?” I’ll buy the former, but the latter is a bit broad of a brush. The homeschooled kids I’ve encountered are generally better adjusted and better educated than their standard-schooled peers. I might not have ventured into the churches that would have some of the more seperatist folks that get you worried, but the “product” of homeschooling seems good.

I wasn’t able to get through to the Conservapedia site to check it out. It doesn’t look like it’d be too much use for me or folks I’d be teaching.

I’d rather let my charges hit Wikipedia and know that articles may well have varieties of spin; when the historicals dates are stated in CE and BCE, you know you’re probably dealing with a secular academic for whom AD and BC is too much of a bow to Christianity for their tastes. You’d then read the article taking into account that there’s likely to be some secular spin to the issues at hand.