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February 2005
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2004 Additions
October Additions
Why We Homeschool:
The Graves of Academe
www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/graves-of-academe/index.html
By Richard Mitchell. Subtitled: Why can't our nation read, write, cipher or THINK? The Underground Grammarian takes on the American Educational Establishment. "Praised by critics across the nation, The Graves of Academe is Richard Mitchell's angry and brilliant tour through America's bloated public school system whose mangled, self-serving language and policies would make Orwell wince. Stamped with vintage Mitchell wit and laced with stinging examples from The Underground Grammarian, The Graves of Academe pinpoints the historic sources of the mind-boggling "educationist" bureaucracy and reveals why today's schools are riddled not only with illiterate students but with illiterate teachers and administrators as well."
From chapter 1, Propositions Three and Seven: "We are a people who imagine that we are weighing important issues when we exchange generalizations and well-known opinions. We decide how to vote or what to buy according to whim or fancied self-interest, either of which is easily engendered in us by the manipulation of language, which we have neither the will nor the ability to analyze. We believe that we can reach conclusions without having the faintest idea of the difference between inferences and statements of fact, often without any suspicions that there are such things and that they are different. We are easily persuaded and repersuaded by what seems authoritative, without any notion of those attributes and abilities that characterize authority. We do not notice elementary fallacies in logic; it doesn t even occur to us to look for them; few of us are even aware that such things exist. We make no regular distinctions between those kinds of things that can be known and objectively verified and those that can only be believed or not. Nor are we likely to examine, when we believe or not, the induced predispositions that may make us do the one or the other. We are easy prey."
The Graves of Academe was a "why we homeschool" link before, but it was several years ago, and bears repeating. Even though The Graves of Academe was written decades ago, it is still relevant today, as the foundational problems described with the public school system and culture have NOT been addressed. This is why we homeschool.
September Additions
The Story of the Renaissance and Reformation
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/renaissance.html
Books shipping! All the details up at the Nothing New Press website. Hooray!!
Coming Up: I apologize for no new Why We Homeschool this month; my mom has been in the hospital, but she is home now, and I hope to have everything back to normal for October. We are having the CCH site professionally re-worked, since we have a new webmaster taking care of things; we hope to unveil in late October or November, we think you will be very pleased. Look for weekly updates and lots of new content uploaded once the new site is up, and a few new surprises.
August Additions
The Story of the Renaissance and Reformation
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/renaissance.html
We have been uploading links to the new Renaissance and Reformation book; there are more chapters to read, and also the shipping date listed on the publication update link, among other things. We will continue to add more from the Renaissance and Reformation book all this month. And, we will continue to accept preorders at the discounted rate before the books ships! This means anyone who has not yet ordered a copy at the sale price, can still do so for two to three more weeks only.
Renaissance and Reformation Progress
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/renaissance.html
We have updated the progress report on Story of the Renaissance and Reformation. The book files have finally been sent to the printers! We will be shipping this title this month, as soon as we get the books back, to everyone who preordered it. As a special thank you to all for your patience in waiting for this title during our many trying times this past year, we will continue to accept preorders at the discounted rate while the book is being printed. This means anyone who has not yet ordered a copy at the sale price, can still do so for two to three more weeks only.
Why We Homeschool:
The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher
www.worldtrans.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
By John Taylor Gatto, former New York State Teacher of the Year. What seven lessons do schools teach? It isn't what you think. You may think schools teach lessons such as Reading, English, Mathematics, or Science. "The license I hold certifies that I am an instructor of English language and English literature, but that isn't what I do at all. I don't teach English, I teach school -- and I win awards doing it." According to Gatto, schools have been designed to teach, not academics, but lessons such as confusion, class position, indifference, emotional dependency, and more. His arguments are compelling. Private and charter schools, emulating the same structure as public schools, are not immune. This is why we homeschool.
July Additions
Favorite Education and Homeschooling Links
www.classical-homeschooling.org/education.html
All the links on this page have been updated and are now working.
Revised Second Edition of All Through the Ages
www.nothingnewpress.com/atta.shtml
In the revised second edition of All Through the Ages, the ancient history timelines have been corrected with the help of Larry Pierce, editor and translator of James Ussher’s classic survey of world history, Annals of the World. All of his corrections have been incorporated into the revised second edition timelines. These corrections begin with the assumption that the Bible is the only reliable source document of chronological information from the time periods it covers, from the Creation of the world. If you have the unrevised second edition (the revised second edition is noted by the date 2004 on the copyright page) please write to us and request the file listing the corrections for the ancient history timelines.
Renaissance and Reformation Progress
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/renaissance.html
We have updated the progress report on Story of the Renaissance and Reformation. This title can be pre-ordered at a discounted price, only until its release. We expect to ship in June as soon as we get it back from the printers! We thank you all for your patience as we have gone through some very trying times while working on getting this book released!
Why We Homeschool
We homeschool because of the inefficiency and failure of the federally-controlled public school system to adequately educate our children. Since the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965, the amount of taxpayer money which has been flushed through the system has risen at an exponential rate, while “math and reading scores have stagnated, graduation rates have flatlined, and researchers have shown numerous billion-dollar federal programs to be failures.” We homeschool because the most influential special interest in the nation, the National Education Association (NEA), is in hyperdrive to influence American politics while "they have failed miserably when it comes to improving education." Furthermore, the NEA is resisting most reform measures which would improve the public education of our children. While this is bad enough, recent research suggests that sexual harrassment of students by school employees is a worse scandal than the Catholic church abuse scandal, with numbers of abused children in the millions. In the face of this new report, the NEA defends its members rather than defending the children forcibly mandated to spend their days under the influence and authority of NEA members. These are only some of the reasons why we homeschool.
June Additions
Why We Homeschool Site of the Month:
Dad Investigated for Taking Son off Meds
abcnews.go.com/sections/Living/US/mental_illness_treatment_kids_040607-1.html?HEALTHAd=true
“When Chad Taylor noticed his son was apparently experiencing serious side effects from Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, he decided to take the boy off the medication. Now, he says he may be accused of child abuse.” But it was this part of the news article which confirmed to me that in America, we have crossed over into the ‘twilight zone’: “Taylor is among many parents facing a dilemma over whether to medicate children who suffer from mental disorders.” Mental disorder? I searched the article to find out what this child’s ‘mental disorder’ was which made his parents targets of Child Protective Services, and found it a few paragraphs up: “Daniel seemed unable to sit still and was inattentive” [in class, after his parents took him off the Ritalin]. The stretch is too far for my mind to make, but this news article has made it, and so have the CSS where these parents live: unable to sit still + inattentive in class (in a bored 12-year-old boy) = mental disorder? This is one reason why we homeschool.
May Additions
Classical Christian Homeschooling mirror site
www.classical-homeschooling.org
The CCH website at www.classicalhomeschooling.org was down for some of the time in May; we apologize. Since that site uses donated webspace, we really don’t have any control over the server issues there. Therefore we have opened a mirror site at the above link; every update made to the old CCH site will also be made to the new CCH site, and eventually, updates to the old CCH site will be phased out. We hope this will be a good solution for the frustration of the old CCH website occasionally going down, often during the height of summer when parents are making their schooling plans. If you have friends who visit the CCH site, please spread the word of the mirror site. If you maintain a link to the CCH site, please update your link to www.classical-homeschooling.org. Thank you very much!
Renaissance and Reformation Progress
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/renaissance.html
We have updated the progress report on Story of the Renaissance and Reformation. This title can be pre-ordered at a discounted price, only until its release. We expect to ship in June as soon as we get it back from the printers! We thank you all for your patience as we have gone through some very trying times while working on getting this book released!
Why We Homeschool Site of the Month:
Educational Ineptitude
www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20040310.shtml
By Walter E. Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University. This article analyzes the data on teacher performance and examines the public schools' response to related student performance. Dr. Williams says, "This is a vision all too common among today’s educationists, but there’s a good reason for it: too large a percentage of teachers represent the very bottom of the academic achievement barrel and as such fall easy prey to mindless and destructive fads." Dr. Williams continues his analysis in Educational Ineptitude II. This is one reason why we homeschool.
What’s Coming: A webmaster for CCH! This will mean that updates will continue every month, the catalog pages, FAQ pages, information pages, and link pages will be continuously added to and kept current!! We are very excited about this opportunity to have the CCH website professionally maintained, freeing Christine to concentrate on site content, curriculum, and lesson plan development!! Thank you, thank you for your support all these years, and for sticking with us while we finish homeschooling our own and strive to make this website better and better for more families! If you have a suggestion to improve our site, please don't hesitate to let us know what would help you most!
April Additions
Why We Homeschool Site of the Month:
Rewriting American History
www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_25.shtml
By U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado. This is a transcript of an address made before Congress on the topic of textbooks approved and in use today in U.S. public schools, in which American history and the foundation of America, Western Civilization, is skewed to indoctrinate in a partisan political viewpoint, which gives children an EXTREMELY crippled and one-sided, and often, outright false, view of this country and the "evils" of Western Civilization. But, this viewpoint is the one held by most teachers, education administrators, and NEA operatives, so it is of course a moral duty to indoctrinate students and suppress dissent. This address, given just days ago, incorporates many examples from around the country, and is not alone in its ringing of the alarm bells: see also Dumbing Down, PC Distort US History, Critics Say, Political Correctness Suppresses Education, What They are Teaching our Young People in High School, Brainwashing in Grade School, Political Indoctrination at My Public High School, just to name a very few of the articles that have been published on this topic on the past few years.
What’s Coming: Renaissance and Reformation updates; FAQ updates; Online Catalog updates (continuing work begun last year), and, Lord willing, completion of the Dialectic Stage section of the website, both articles and curriculum suggestions. We have had our second unexpected death in the family in the past three months last week; this time my son’s betrothed was killed in a traffic accident. Please keep our family in your prayers. I apologize for the delay in updates to the website; rest assured they ARE COMING! Thank you for your understanding.
March Additions
Why We Homeschool Site of the Month:
Restoration of Education: The Role of Parents and the Body of Christ
www2.whidbey.net/jmboyes/restore.htm
By James Boyes, host of Christian Education Awareness Network. "One may ... locate a plethora of Scripture which points to the responsibility of parents and Church leadership toward the inculcation of each generation of children and their children in remembrance of God’s created works, wisdom, knowledge, and truth. ... On the other hand, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to locate biblical references that stress the importance of parents to delegate this responsibility (in loco parentis) to a government education system which is philosophically opposed to, and has essentially banned, the revelation of God through His Word. Regardless, if the state were to somehow become “godly” in its agenda, the Bible fails to direct parents to delegate the education of their children’s souls or conscience (sic) minds, into the hands of those outside of family and Church authority. This observation is well worth repeating: The Bible provides absolutely no basis for the contemporary practice of in loco parentis of Christian children, by Christian parents, into the hands of the United States federal/state school system."
What’s Coming: Renaissance and Reformation updates; FAQ updates; Online Catalog updates (continuing work begun last year), and, Lord willing, completion of the Dialectic Stage section of the website, both articles and curriculum suggestions. I am praying for help with maintaining this website. If the Lord provides it, then also updates to links throughout the website.
February Additions
Why We Homeschool Site of the Month
Left-Wing Groups Silent on Schools’ Muslim Indoctrination
www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/21/115449.shtml
“Parents who are furious that their children are receiving indoctrination in Islam in their schools have yet to hear support from most of the same left-wing groups that loudly lecture Americans on what they call “separation of church and state,” a phrase that appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution.” From NewsMax.com. This is part three in a series, part two in that series is Christians Fight California’s Muslim Indoctrination of Schoolchildren; and part one in the series is Jailed Terror Suspect Helped ACLU Draft Schools’ Anti-Christian Rules.
January Additions
Nothing New Press
www.nothingnewpress.com/
If you tried to visit Nothing New Press this week, you noticed that we weren’t there. Our website was hacked. God bless whoever did it; may they receive grace from the Lord to be blessed with wisdom and the fear of the Lord. We have got everything back up and running, thanks to the excellent work of Big Fresh Media.
Story of the Middle Ages Clearance Sale
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber.shtml
We have a limited supply of “scratch and dent” Story of the Middle Ages, which we would like to clear out. They are 50% off the regular retail price, first come, first serve only! See the website for full details.
Story of the Renaissance and Reformation Chapters
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber.renaissance.html
We have uploaded several chapters from The Story of the Renaissance and Reformation, dealing with the Huguenot Wars, for people to read while they await the shipment of their books. Many thanks for your prayers and patience. More to come.
Renaissance and Reformation Progress
www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/renaissance.html
We have updated the progress report on Story of the Renaissance and Reformation. This title can be pre-ordered at a discounted price, only until its release.
2003 Additions to CCH
www.classicalhomeschooling.org/new2003.html
At the turn of the new year we start over on CCH’s What’s New page with a clean slate. All of the additions and links made in the year 2003 and in previous years can be found at this archive.
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