THE HOMESCHOOL STORY

It’s Alive!

Introducing the Blog Itself
“If a child is home schooled in Brooklyn and the experience isn’t documented publicly in excruciating (loving!) detail, does the kid get any education at all?”

The Home School Story

Verging on Hysteria

An Amicable Conversation About Home School “Issues”
“So you’ll just tell him that you want to try something new and nutty?”

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Arrested Development

A “Truant’s” Story
“Those are things that I could never have learned at ‘real’ school.”

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Youth Referred

The Father of the “Truant” Speaks
“Are we bad parents?”

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What Ain’t

Mistakes Are Made OR Something Has to Give
“How is it possible to have an over-scheduled home school child? Why aren’t we having more fun?”

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The Rigor

Curriculum Matters & the Risk of “Other”
“I do not focus on what SchoolLess isn’t getting—some of which is loss, some of which is gain—but on what he is getting.”

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Unity & Coherence

Some Who Can Teach
“I wonder if he would even remember me, an odd blip of a student, a quietly disobedient boy from another time and place?”

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A Reluctant Blessing

Beautiful Day, Baseball in the Park
“We hit, we pitch, we catch, all three of us, in these moments, unencumbered, fraughtless, and free.”

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Narration, Looking on the Bright Side, & Other Artistic Endeavors
“I’ve been grieving, not quite rationally, though I am beginning to feel cautiously optimistic that some sense of closure approaches, even as I am aware that the passive nature of this statement may suggest otherwise.”

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Waiting For My Epiphany

Resolutions, Chronological Disjointedness, a Touch of Assessment, and More!
"I am in a never-ending relationship with interruption, if not the reality of it, then the potential or aftermath."

Waiting For My Epiphany

Resolutions, Chronological Disjointedness, a Touch of Assessment, and More!
"I am in a never-ending relationship with interruption, if not the reality of it, then the potential or aftermath."

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THE HOMESCHOOL STORY

CONTENTS

It’s Alive!

Verging on Hysteria

Arrested Development

Youth Referred

What Ain’t

The Rigor

Unity & Coherence

A Reluctant Blessing

Life is Good

Waiting For My Epiphany

RECENT

Waiting For My Epiphany

CHAPTERS

The Home School Story

Family & Its (Dis)Contents

On Writing & Not

SchoolLess Speaks

Education, etc. i.e.

I Believe

Letters to SchoolLess

Chronological Archives

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