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Charter Starter

At the beginning of the year, I registered my children to be in the random drawings to get into one of four charter schools near our home. While, I am interested in a better academic experience, and in choosing a better school for my child. I honestly was just enrolling into anything and everything I [...]

Fabulous Farding Friday: Thomas Jefferson Education

My wife says that I am obsessive.  She thinks that when I pick something up that I am an all or nothing sort of person.  You could use the example of geocaching.  This past week has been the first time since August that I have not been geocaching in more that 48 hours. Other family [...]

Poverty, Entitlement, and Sexual Predators

We had some friends over today.  They are conservative and hold many views similar to mine.  And the conversation turned to why we home school. (They are a home schooling parent’s too.) I told him that we finally made the decision to home school because there was way too many problems with the school.  The [...]

Humbled Home Schooler

As many of you know, my wife and I (mostly my wife) home school our children. It is a great experience, and I love to see my children learn and grow in the process. In order to make the home school experience effective and more enjoyable, we often have activities where other home schooled children [...]

Helaman Academy

I have mentioned before that we (my wife and I, more she than I) home school our children. The name of our home school is Helaman Academy. It is named after the Book of Mormon prophet Helaman. He was a great military leader, and worked with many young soldiers in many of the battles that [...]

My Children as News Anchors

As promised, here is the picture of my children acting as anchors for the local television news station. Possibly Related Posts: webOS:open source::BYU:independence HP TouchPad Happy Belated Birthday, Dear FamilySearch Indexing Happy Birthday, Dear

Children Anchor for Local TV News

KUTV 2 News has had what they call an Open House for the past couple of years. Last year I wanted to go, but decided that it would just be too crowded to even bother. However, this year, when they announced that they were going to have another Open House. I knew that we had to go. [...]