Sentences with phrase «reason home schooling»

It's one of the main reasons I home schooled my kids, is I wanted the best of them.

For various perfectly understandable reasons home schooling is not always an option.

The Home School Legal Defense Association published an issue paper in 2002, «Reasons Home Schoolers Should Avoid Government Vouchers,» but it actively supports education tax credits.

Not exact matches

Six reasons Dogwood's director of community organizing is feeling hopeful about beating Kinder Morgan My sons and I pass the Kinder Morgan tank farm on our way to school in the morning and on our way home in the evening.

Holiday cheer is in the air, kids are home from school and the office is the last thing on your mind, for good reason.

Smith and Sikkink's study suggests that there is little reason to worry that home schooling diverts people from civic life.

In a Florida state survey conducted from 1995 to 1996, for example, «dissatisfaction with public schools» edged out «religious» motivations for the first time as the leading reason for home schooling.»

He thinks the reason may be what someone else here cited - that the rest of the environment in the U.S. has become highly integrated - schools, workplace, etc., and the church is the last bastion where they feel they can relax and everything seem like «old home week» — i.e. «family».

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Other errors, according to Pii investigators, included ABWE's choice to mask the reason for Ketcham's dismissal under the general term immorality; when he returned to his home church, he was allowed to teach Sunday school.

The reason is fairly simple: those NYC kids wanted to play games near home, but didn't have to go to school at home.

As ever I wish you a mood - boosting win to celebrate if you are there, and a damn good reason to enjoy a nip of something on a school night if you are watching from home.

I do have many reasons why I want to do home school, but also many why now is not the right time.

And while parents may home school for a variety of different reasons, 72 percent of those who responded cited religious and moral reasons.

But at the same time, Brian's sobering story makes clear that millions of American children live in food insecure homes, school meals are often their only dependable source of food, yet for a variety of reasons (parental neglect, stigma, etc.) they may not be getting all the food that's being made available to them at school.

once they started public school and ate in the cafeteria once a week, my older one didn't care for the canned fruit claiming a «chemical» taste as the reason, my younger one was enthusiastic about spiced apples, mandarin oranges and pineapple tidbits and requested the same at home.

Instead of saying, «Do your homework as soon as you get home from school,» explain the underlying reason for the rule.

After - school care may be a good child care choice for a work - at - home parent's family, even if one of the reasons to work at home is spending more time with family.

There's a reason why every school yard, and most suburban homes, boasts a basketball hoop just waiting for action.

There are a multitude of reasons that 72 percent of college students choose to attend school in their home state, the chief one, of course, being reduced tuition at public universities.

Why I home - school my children (Guardian, UK, 07-01-11)-- a teacher of fifteen years decided to educate her sons at home; she explains her reasons and how it works for her.

Families often choose to enlist the help of outside tutors for their child's home schooling for various reasons.

There are many reasons for teens to underperform at school, including a lack of motivation to do well, problems at home or with peers, poor work habits or study skills, emotional and behavior problems, learning disabilities (such as dyslexia), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental retardation or below average intelligence and other medical problems, including anxiety and depression.

so many kids will eat things at school, at a friends house, with another community group than they would at home for all the reasons listed above.

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

In the very small number of local authorities where there is information on religion, about 31 % of home educators belong to a faith group, although that may not be the reason they have chosen an alternative to school.

Parents do not have to give a reason for withdrawing a child from school, but in 41 council areas there is information about the purpose, giving an insight into the variations among home - educating families.

Whether it was imaginary play with baby dolls, or just our active imaginations, we knew that we were going to grow up, let our kids stay up as late as they wanted, eat chocolate cake for dinner, and allow them stay home from school for absolutely no reason at all.

Much as I admit that it's lovely not to have a 3 1/2 hour school run every day in all weathers, that wasn't my sole reason for opting to home educate.

For this reason, parents need to tailor - made their home schooling techniques without the usual school stuff.

However, if your child is being bullied, or finds school life impossible for any reason, please consider home education for at least a year or so.

Some will be people who don't like home schooling for various reasons, which may or may not be valid (like they met one home schooled child who didn't know a specific thing, their mother is a teacher, or home schooling didn't work for them).

For this reason, we are looking into home - schooling for her.

My husband works away quite a lot and we are thinking that home schooling will make it easier for us to go away when we want to and spend time with my husband when we can and not be bound by school terms... and then there are many other reasons why we want to teach them ourselves.

I have a theory that one reason kids reject more healthy options when they are offered for school lunch is that when they get home their parents still feed them chicken nuggets, thus reinforcing the idea that kid food is different from adult food, and the healthier options are not kid food.

If a traditional high school is not an option for some reason, consider online courses or home schooling.

Whatever their reasons for choosing to home school their children, most parents report that one of the benefits of family life and home schooling is a sense of togetherness.

Reason # 4: I am home from work today, and normally his father does his nursery school pick up and drop off, but this morning he said, «Papa, you stay home, mama will come and get me.»

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

They too cite concern about public school environments, family ties and academic standards as reasons to home school, research shows.

Some had left their Staten Island and Queens homes as early as 4 a.m. to make departure on time, others had taken the day off work or school, all were there for the same reason: to meet with state lawmakers and convince them to modernize New York's antiquated election laws.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

Now, an international collaboration of scientists, including several from the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has helped researchers home in on genetic reasons.

Pesticide, herbicide and chemical fertilizer spills at homes and schools, for example, are some of the common reasons why previously healthy people join the ranks of the chemically sensitive and environmentally ill.

«When children leave the home and go to school or the public library and have access to social - networking sites, we have reason to be concerned,» Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Reublican.

Based on the best - selling books by Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why follows teenager Clay Jensen as he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

Economist Guillermo Montes's analysis of data from the massive 2001 National Household Education Survey found that 70 percent of respondents cited a nonreligious reason as the top motivator in their decision to home school.

This is one of the reasons why the company decided to become a partner organisation and are devoting their energy into developing resources to inspire and support the introduction of the BBC micro: bit in schools and at home.

While home schooling may have particular appeal to celebrities, over the last decade families of all kinds have embraced the practice for widely varying reasons: no longer is home schooling exclusive to Christian fundamentalism and the countercultural Left.