Today I have a link to a helpful article from SUNY Oswego's Honors Program. It's a compilation of advice from college freshmen to high school students-- sort of a 'what I wish I had known/done' type of article. I think you'll find it quite interesting!
Click the title of this post to read the article.
If you're going to be at the Virginia Homeschoolers Conference at the Science Museum of Virginia this weekend, stop by my table and say 'hi!' I'll be speaking on creating transcripts.
I'm making progress-- not as quickly as I would like, but progress, nonetheless-- on Zeitgeist Literature: Self-Directed, College-Preparatory, Literature-Based English for Homeschoolers. The first e-books should be available shortly!
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
Notice of Intent to Homeschool
If you homeschool in Virginia, the deadline for filing your Notice of Intent to Homeschool is August 15. That is, of course, unless you are schooling under the religious exemption, which does not require the filing of a form.
The new wrinkle in the Notice is the change in Option 1. It used to permit homeschooling if you had a bachelor's degree, but the law has been amended. You may now homeschool with just a high school diploma. And no, that doesn't mean a piece of paper. That simply means you may homeschool if you have finished high school.
If you have always used Option 4 in which you attach a copy of your "program of study for the coming year," or a statement of why you feel you're "able to provide an adequate education for your child," you no longer have to do that. Just choose Option 1, and you'll save hours of wasted time!
To get an updated, printable copy of the Notice, you may go to HEAV website.
It's almost time for back-to-school! Are you ready?
The new wrinkle in the Notice is the change in Option 1. It used to permit homeschooling if you had a bachelor's degree, but the law has been amended. You may now homeschool with just a high school diploma. And no, that doesn't mean a piece of paper. That simply means you may homeschool if you have finished high school.
If you have always used Option 4 in which you attach a copy of your "program of study for the coming year," or a statement of why you feel you're "able to provide an adequate education for your child," you no longer have to do that. Just choose Option 1, and you'll save hours of wasted time!
To get an updated, printable copy of the Notice, you may go to HEAV website.
It's almost time for back-to-school! Are you ready?
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Chesterton on a Woman's Role
I like G.K. Chesterton's defense of the role of women:
"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays;
to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books;
to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene;
I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone?
No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."
(From Chesterton's What's Wrong with the World.)
Transcripts Made Easy: Your Friendly Guide to High School Paperwork
The Everyday Educator
"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays;
to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books;
to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene;
I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone?
No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."
(From Chesterton's What's Wrong with the World.)
Transcripts Made Easy: Your Friendly Guide to High School Paperwork
The Everyday Educator
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