Episode 14 – How To Begin Homeschooling

Many parents are concerned about the quality, safety, politics and other issues of schools nowadays, so homeschooling might be a great option for your family.  But where to start?  In this episode I try to answer that question.

Joining me is prepper author Katy Owen, who has written a couple of great prepping books, one of which has a chapter on homeschooling.  The link for the box set of her books, collectively entitled Prepping On A Budget, can be found here.

Here are some helpful links for this episode:

Homeschool Legal Defense Association (membership is $130/year)

Homeschool Reporting Online (homeschoolreporting.com), costs $20/year

Here is the link to that scary article about pills in schools.  It will blow your mind that schoolkids are living with such a pill culture nowadays

Some Helpful YouTube channels:

Teacher Mom

Grace and Grit

Homeschool Hangout

A great YouTube video on homeschooling:

Reasons We Like Homeschooling

Blogs:

The Homeschool Village

Pioneer Woman

Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers

Cathy Duffy Reviews

Great Websites:

The Homeschool Mom

Confessions Of A Homeschooler

Homeschooling Podcasts:

Cultivating Grace

Talking Mom 2 Mom

Some Great Books on Homeschooling:

The Unhurried Homeschooler: A Simple, Mercifully Short Book on Homeschooling, by Durenda Wilson and Melinda Martin (less than $7!)

Homeschooling 101: A Guide To Getting Started, by Erica Arndt

The Homeschooling Housewife: Juggling it ALL, One Priority at a Time, by Amber J Fox

Check out this amazing article:

It is possible to be a homeschooling parent and a trucker at the same time

This trucker-homeschooled child actually went on to get a full scholarship at Harvard University

Some great clothing that has little or nothing to do with homeschooling:

Serenity’s Scarves And Stuff

 

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Episode 12 – School Shooting Rants And Ideas

After some ranting and emoting about the recent shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, I offer some suggestions on how to better combat school shootings in the future.

I suggest more armed teachers.  After Newtown in 2012, some schools have allowed teachers to be trained and armed, and there have been no reports of problems.  In the school districts where this has been tried (see news reports here and here), parents and students have generally been supportive.

I also propose metal detectors at the entrance to schools.  Teachers should also have the option to carry pepper spray or taser guns.  Fire extinguishers at school should also be ubiquitous, and can actually be used against a shooter to temporarily disable the shooter.  Schools should also have occasional “aggressive shooter drills,” above and beyond the standard shooter drills (see videos here, here, and here), in which students are trained to swarm and fight any suspected school shooter.

Some items discussed in this episode:

Taser Gun

Pepper Spray by Sabre with key ring.  $10 each (Not legal in all jurisdictions)

Fire Extinguisher

Wasp Spray

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