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Forming a Family Huddle
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 3, 2025
A comic from NPR caught my eye the other day. Promising to tell parents “how to raise informed, active citizens,” the scrawled images and text stressed the importance of civics and made several recommendations on how parents can work instruction of this topic into everyday life. The suggestions range from using fun and games, to
READ MOREI taught seminars in Latin, history, composition, and literature to homeschool students in Asheville, North Carolina for more than 15 years, including Advanced Placement courses. As a result, students often asked me to write college recommendation letters for them, such as letters for the Common Application, or Common App as it is known. Though I
READ MOREI would guess that the neighbor kids living across the street from me are a microcosm of America’s youth population. The oldest hates the distance learning that has been inflicted upon him in recent months. His younger sister, however, loves the secluded learning environment, and would be happy if she never had to go back
READ MOREMany families took one look at their school district’s remote or hybrid learning offerings this fall and said “no, thank you.” That’s the message gleaned from national and state-specific data on the surging number of homeschooled students this academic year. Prior to the pandemic and related school closures last spring, there were just under two
READ MORELast week my friend John was chatting with a trainer at the gym, who complained that patrons were putting their trash into the wrong recycling bins. John, who keeps up with this sort of thing, explained to him that it probably made little difference since the United States only recycles a fraction of its plastic
READ MOREEven in the deepest of deep blue progressive states, it appears racial preferences are unpopular once voters go into the voting booth. On Tuesday, Californians rejected Proposition 16, a ballot measure that would have essentially ended California’s decadeslong ban on racial preferences for government and public institutions. This ban was enacted by Proposition 209, which
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