Dec 26
 | Real-Life Homeschooling: The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home Rhonda Barfield $3.74  |
The book that shows homeschooling in action!
What does it really mean when parents say they homeschool their child or children? For Rhonda Barfield -- a homeschooler for the past 10 years -- the definition is as diverse as the 21 families she studies in this eye-opening book.
Real-Life Homeschooling
From the city to the country, apartments to split-levels, you'll enter each household and see education in action. Discover the challenges and rewards of ....read more
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December 29th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Not As Expected
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The vast majority of the homeschoolers interviewed were fundamentalist Christians using pre-planned curriculum and often rigid scheduling. This was certainly not, by any stretch of the imagination, an example of the rich variety of choices to be found within the homeschool world. There were also some rather pathetic innaccuracies within the text describing the Jewish family. Just one example is the word “sabbath” capitalized as “Sabbath” (for this family, “sabbath” would be a common noun) while the word “Shabbat” is not capitalized (Shabbat is the Jewish sabbath.) I wonder if the families represented were even given an opportunity to check the author’s representations of their lives. If you want to read this book, buy a cheap used copy.