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Educated: A belated book review

Jan 1, 2021

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in Culture, Education, Homeschooling, Parenting, Psychology

At the time it was published, I tried to ignore the chatter about “Educated” by Tara Westover. But this book is far from the “homeschooling as child abuse” story that I expected.

For goodness sake, parents, be nice to your teachers, OK?

Sep 5, 2020

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in Education, Homeschooling, Parenting

We’re all in this together, right? So don’t start the conversation by blaming your teacher. Make sure that you are taking responsibility for your part, too!

Calling homeschool pods fundamentally racist won’t help education equality

Aug 17, 2020

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Suki

in Culture, Education, Homeschooling

I’m sure you’ve noticed all the scary articles about how so-called “homeschool pods” are going to undo all the small amount of racial equity that our public schools have been able to put in place. Need a refresher? Here, here, and here are the top three hits I got. This argument rests on three premises…