Believe it or not, but Caitlin Snaring, the girl who won the National Geographic Bee (the first girl to win the title in 17 years) - was homeschooled.
In Snaring's first-time run at the bee in the nation's capital, the home-schooled eighth grader from Washington state gave a flawless performance -- not missing a single question over two days of national competition -- and took home the title.Just a week later - another victory for a homeschooled child. This time Evan O'Dorney, a 13-year old homeschool student from Danville, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington. Sounds like a trend, doesn't it?
Well, you don't need to cross the US border looking for bright homeschooled youth. Check out this blog, run by a homeschooled teenage girl from New Brunswick. She doesn't look anything like a locked up child, raised within four walls by ignorant parents, does she? I bet she knows more about her country than a dozen of young Liberals put together.
Want another example? This open letter to the Premier of Ontario was written by 14 year/old Jesse Fontaine from Timmins. I know I've quoted it previously on my blog. But I've been a teenager myself and I remember how easy it is to go with the crowd, how tempting it is to tease the parents by using words they wouldn't approve of and how hard it is to resist a catchy slogan, especially if it could also be used to insult the opponents. So I can't find words to express my respect towards a teenager who has the wisdom and the courage to speak against the prevalent fad.
I have seen our Ontario Government's Environmental website, then we visited the "www.flickoff.org" website and saw the intentionally modified font, meant to ensure that the people of Ontario and the world for that matter, saw it as vulgarity that would normally be unacceptable.Is it a coincidence that a teenager this articulate is a homeschooled Christian? I don't think so.
I observed that the links on the website such as "ARE WE FLICKED," "WHO NEEDS TO FLICK OFF," and "GO FLICK YOURSELF" convey a message that I, for one and many others, would not associate with a need to conserve energy.
Home school advocates suggest that home study has a significant impact on the development of a normal child. Home schooling doesn't try and make a child fit one specific size or mold. Sometimes kids can be working on two or three different grade levels at once. If they love science, they might be a couple of levels ahead, but if they're struggling in English, they might go a bit slower to make sure that the concepts are cemented in before moving ahead.Homeschooling is also the only way to protect the children from social experiments conducted by left-wing radicals that took over the public school system.
Charles B. Lowers, Executive Director of Considering Homeschooling, says "Homeschoolers overall do better academically, socially, and most important, spiritually."
Parents have a right and an obligation to teach their children, in their own way, in their own time, without being upstaged by domineering social engineers hiding under the guise of educational professionals.Some may say that homeschooling is only available to families where one of the parents stays home. Yes, it's harder for families where both parents must work to make ends meet to homeschool their children. But it's not impossible. Homeschooling families still have the option to unite and organize a one-room schoolhouse of their own.
Under our present political will, the only alternative parents have is to start home-schooling which has increased to 80,000 children in Canada and still growing.
If let's say five families get together to homeschool their children, then each of the 10 adults will have to take only one day off every two weeks. With our "progressive" tax system that would only mean loss of 3.5 to 5 hour-pay per paycheck. Sure, working with other families to educate the children is not as easy as taking whatever the public school has to offer. But as we see, homeschooling brings the best results.
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