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(1 votes)     Rate it!  |  Report it! Bending the Twigs http://bendingthetwigs.blogspot.com I'm a proud homeschooling mom of 2, Irish Catholic, 3rd generation Red Sox fan, bookworm, and fitness video collector. I blog mostly about homeschooling and education but also baseball & Catholicism Category: Blog Directory » Reference Blogs » Homeschooling Hits: 5 Date added: 2007-05-12 01:57:57 Alexa traffic rank: 4,408,831 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast -  Faster than 49% of websites

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Latest blog posts from Bending the Twigs

A Breath of Fresh Air
Brian Crosby is a veteran high school English teacher from Southern California who has written a very interesting new book called Smart Kids, Bad Schools: 38 Ways to Save America's Future. It's a fairly quick read and many of his ideas for improving government-run schools are eminently sensible.... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Prayers for Gulf Coast Residents
Just after the 3rd anniversary of Katrina's devastation, it looks like another major hurricane has the Gulf Coast in its destructive path. May it be God's will that this latest storm cause less damage and many, many fewer deaths and injuries. I pray that the levees of New Orleans will be able to... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Off on Vacation!
I'm leaving in a couple of hours to travel to Colorado for my cousin's wedding on Friday and then next week I'll be heading to New England to visit family. I'm not taking my laptop so I probably won't be posting much until I get back on the 23rd. Read more...
Published a month ago

The "Nanny State" as the Price of Moral Relativism?
There's a very interesting argument in the recently released book Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!) by Carol Platt Liebau that the moral relativism so in vogue over the past four decades is a direct cause of the rise of the "nanny" state. She writes (emphasis... Read more...
Published a month ago

Like Josef Stalin or Kennedy...
At the beginning of every month, I pick up a copy of Bay Area Parent magazine from my local library to check out the upcoming family-friendly events in our area. In addition to event listings, the magazine features articles on various parenting topics.One of the articles in the August issue is... Read more...
Published a month ago

Sad Commentary on the State of GATE in California
Through a link from "The 'More' Child" blog, I discovered an interesting new blog on the EdWeek site by Tamara Fisher called "Unwrapping the Gifted". Ms. Fisher is a Gifted Education Specialist for a school district located on a Native American reservation in Montana and is the President-Elect of... Read more...
Published a month ago

British Sikh Girl Wins Right to Wear Religious Bangle
Last fall, I blogged about the plight of Sarika Singh, who'd been expelled from her government-run school in Wales after breaking the school's "no jewelery" rule for refusing to take off her kara. The kara is a slim metal bangle that is worn at all times to remind Sikhs not to sin and is a... Read more...
Published a month ago

Y'all Are Making Me Look Like a Slacker!
One thing about us Catholic homeschoolers- we are a fertile bunch! I had no idea there were so many of us due at the end of '08/beginning of '09 until I saw a post from Melissa Wiley over at "Here from the Bonny Glen" about it. I'm a bit humbled by the fact that most are on their fifth or more... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

What's in a Name?
There has been an announcement from the Homeschool Association of California's legal team that in conjunction with the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, the California Homeschool Network, and the Christian Home Educators Association of California, the term "independent study program" or "ISP"... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Choice is Good, Both in Dining and in Education
The college I attended required all entering freshman to live on-campus with the exception of commuter students residing with their families. The school further required all students living in the dorms to purchase a meal plan. The only students allowed to opt-out of the meal plan were those with... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Child Welfare Case Against Longs Dismissed
A positive development for homeschoolers in California- on Thursday, the family court case against Phillip and Mary Long was dismissed and the court terminated its jurisdiction over the youngest two Long children. Attorneys representing homeschooling organizations now plan to petition the Second... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Yet Another Validation of Our Decision to Homeschool
Okay, I know that it's not a great idea to blog while angry, but I just need to vent! The superintendent of my local school district came to speak at the monthly meeting of the moms' club in my town to try to sell us on their schools.I went because I was curious to hear what she had to say-... Read more...
Published 2 months ago