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This Week’s Money Carnivals

Curtis Ophoven

10/4/2008 - 0 Comments

This week I participated in one blog carnivals.

Carnival of Homeschoolers #143 hosted by Simple Pleasures.

They did an excellent job and, as usual, there are tons of great posts. If you have the time, I highly suggest you skim through them.

Carnival of Homeschoolers

Our article, "How Much Money Does Homeschooling Save Taxpayers?" was listed.

Here are a few other articles that I found interesting.

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Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense

Guterson mounts a strong challenge to "the doctrine of school's necessity." He profiles the home-school movement, which encompasses more than 300,000 families in America, and probes the wide variety of motives behind its growth. The most common, he finds, is parents' dissatisfaction with the mass, prescribed and other-directed nature of public education. Guterson argues that properly practiced home-schooling produces academic success, lessens peer pressure and allows children to become independent.