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Home schooling High School and Pondering College

Many people do not realize that colleges are recruiting homeschoolers. We normally feel that because we are homeschoolers, we are rather different and out of the ordinary. We wonder how we are going to convince the colleges that they want our children. It usually ends up being the other way around. Colleges are trying to […]

The Need of Counselors in School

We think childhood days are the best days in a human being’s life. Though, to some extent it is true because they are free from all the worries of the world. However, a very few of us understand that even they experience depression as well. Now, we will wonder why they are depressed when they […]

Home school High School – How Much is Too Much Writing?

One popular variant to the “how much is too much” question for homeschooling involves high school writing. In particular, what is a normal, appropriate level of writing to ask your high school students to accomplish? Many high school student curriculum seem to have one 5-6 page paper assigned one or two times per year, with […]

Can Homeschool Mathematics Be given Over One Credit Each Year?

Homeschool parents typically look for mastery of subjects prior to moving ahead. This is shown whenever parents insist on “more than normal work” in complex subjects like math and science. Whereas public as well as private schools may not finish a math textbook during a school year, a number of home school parents will consider […]

Preparation before Sending your Child to the Boarding School

A few days ago we all were at the airport. Every one of our family members who were present there had tears in their eyes. The reason was that my little niece Dustu was going to study in a good school in South India. Dustu was a ten year old little girl, who is the […]