by Matthew McDill | Aug 27, 2021 | NCHE Blog, War on Homeschooling, Culture
by Matthew McDill, August 2021 The NC Senate debated House Bill 324, Ensuring Dignity and Nondiscrimination in Schools on Thursday. While this is an important and interesting story about the teaching of Critical Race Theory concepts in public schools, a little side...
by Diane Helfrich | Aug 13, 2021 | Middle School, Parental Rights, Reasons to Homeschool, Freedom to Homeschool, War on Homeschooling, Parenting, Considering Homeschooling, Culture, High School, NCHE Blog, Discipleship, Encouragement, Young Children, Community, Teaching Strategies, Homeschooling in Crisis, Uncategorized
by Diane Helfrich, August 2021 Once a child enters our lives, we start thinking about the years to come—their first words and steps turn into school, graduation, and college, and then, we hope, a successful launch to adulthood. Part of how well our child negotiates...
by Diane Helfrich | Aug 2, 2021 | Culture, High School, Graduation, Testing, College, Diversity, NCHE Blog, Reasons to Homeschool, Encouragement, Getting Started, War on Homeschooling, Considering Homeschooling
by Diane Helfrich, August 2021 “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats In a nutshell, this describes for me the difference between homeschooling and public education. We discover and feed gifts and passions in our...
by Matthew McDill | Nov 13, 2020 | NCHE Membership, Freedom to Homeschool, War on Homeschooling, NCHE Blog, Homeschool Law
We are part of a powerful, growing state and national homeschooling movement. And that was even before the coronavirus! Now more families than ever are homeschooling and benefiting from this life changing choice. Unfortunately, that means that those who oppose...
by Matthew McDill | Apr 24, 2020 | NCHE Blog, Parental Rights, War on Homeschooling
In the May-June issue of Harvard Magazine, there appears an article titled “The Risks of Homeschooling.” The author, Erin O’ Donnell, reports on a paper by Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet that recommends that homeschooling should be banned. The rational is that...
