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My 20 year reunion is coming up this year. I’ve never been to a reunion and probably won’t go this year. There are actually two high schools where I could legitimately go to their reunion if I were so inclined. That’s because I went to school in a town in northern Minnesota […]

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I just finished watching the movie The Final Cut starring Robin Williams as a cutter. In this somewhat futuristic movie, cutters are people who edit the details of a dead person’s life (audio and video) which are recovered from an implant that the person received while they were still in utero. I had […]

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Update: Welcome, Carnival of Homeschooling #65 readers.
Cheating
Yesterday, I was on one of the OpenDiary boards where a public school teacher was lamenting that it seems to have become a socially acceptable practice for students to cheat. This got me thinking quite a bit about the topic of cheating. My actual reply was […]

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There are many great resources on the internet for those who choose to homeschool their children. One thing that is a little harder to find are definitive reasons why you should consider this option. Recently, I read a heartfelt entry at Steve Olson’s blog about how public schools crush souls. This entry […]

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This is a paper that I wrote for a college composition class that I was enrolled in when my son was born in October of 2005. I’ve included it here because it is one of my favorite papers that I wrote in my college classes. My hope was to convey that life isn’t […]

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