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Welcome to the May 2010 issue of Home-School News,
brought to you by Practical Homeschooling magazine
and our Homeschool World website at
www.home-school.com! 

Mary Pride
 Mary Pride, Publisher
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. NEWS: Help Swedish homeschoolers battle for their son
2. SUBSCRIBE: And find out what happened to the amazing Swann family!
3: FASCINATING: An unusual look at public school thrills and spills
4. INFO: 22 new articles on our website
5. BOOK: Your guide to the world of homeschooling
6. GET PUBLISHED: Write a Day at Our House diary!
7. How to advertise with us
1. NEWS: Help Swedish homeschoolers battle for their son 

You may have heard about the Swedish couple, Christer and Annie Johansson, whose 7-year-old son, Dominic, was literally yanked off a plane and taken into custody by the state a year ago.

The Johanssons were homeschooling their son (which is still legal in Sweden) for a short period prior to moving to India, Annie's native country.

They followed all the rules, notifying the local school of their plans, and requesting curriculum for their son.

Apparently, after initially agreeing to do so, the principal changed his mind once some local people objected. Eventually this escalated to a court battle, with the parents fined each day Dominic did not attend school. They felt they were on safe ground according to their rights under Swedish law, so stood firm.

That's where the situation rested, until the police "stormed the plane" one minute before take-off and grabbed Dominic away from his parents.

They have only been allowed to see him for brief periods once every five weeks since then.

It's not just the Johanssons, either. Some Swedish authorities have been cracking down on other homeschool families.

In a bit of good news, a top human-rights campaigner has been assigned to represent the family. This occurred just a few days after Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) started campaigning on behalf of the Johanssons.

If you'd like to help, first please pray for this family. Could anything be more heart-wrenching than to have your child literally ripped from your arms?

Second, please go to this page and find out how you can contact the Swedish committee that will be convening on May 12 to discuss "what to do" with Dominic Johansson. It includes email and phone numbers for committee members.

For further info, including photos of this lovely family, read the two articles below:

Police nab 7-year-old homeschooler
Cavalry arrives for beleaguered homeschoolers
2. SUBSCRIBE to Practical Homeschooling: And find out what happened to the amazing Swann family!

PHS #93 coverI'll make it brief:

Practical Homeschooling� magazine is loaded with info you CAN'T find on the Internet.

Remember Joyce Swann, and her amazing 10 children, who all graduated from COLLEGE (not high school!) at age 12 and graduate school at age 15? Ever wonder what happened to them?

Then you need our current issue (pictured to the right). Joyce's family update is exclusively found in our magazine.

We answer questions you didn't even know COULD be asked. Such as, "What REALLY makes the difference, academically speaking, between upper-class kids and regular kids?"  (It's something YOU can easily do, at home, this summer.)

Want to know the answer? Then you need our current issue.

And you can't beat our guarantee:

If following the advice you'll find in Practical Homeschooling doesn't improve your children's chances of getting into the college of their choice, WITH better scholarships than they otherwise would have received, I'll refund your entire subscription price from this point on. We're talking tens of thousands of dollars here, versus $17.95 a year. So your choice should be easy.

For those of you with younger children:

If subscribing to Practical Homeschooling doesn't show you ways of saving your subscription price MANY times over, I'll refund YOUR entire subscription price from this point on.

If you'd like to see what's in our current issue, click here.

And as the icing on the cake, I've just revised my "Curriculum Secrets," "Homeschooling Secrets," and "Organizing Secrets" brochures. Newly updated, these distill dozens of years of homeschool success into just a few easy-to-read pages. And you can get one (or more) FREE when you subscribe!

To subscribe (and receive one of our free, popular "how to" brochures), click here.

Thanks, and I hope you'll be joining us soon!
3: FASCINATING: like a train wreck

The talented Bruce Shortt has been sending out his "Continuing Collapse" emails for some time, detailing the many horrors that occur in government schools. ("But not OUR local schools, right?") The result is a surreal blend of failed policies, unqualified teachers who can't be fired, graft and corruption, and other forms of outrageous behavior.

You'd think reading all this would be depressing, but it's actually quite cathartic. Especially if you are already homeschooling!

We talked Bruce into putting his emails online, so folks not on his email list can enjoy tales from the train wreck that is progressive public education.

For his most recent issue, I suggest skipping the rather heavy-handed introduction, with its Lord of the Rings-themed "Mordor on the Potomac" (Washington), "Orcs" (Republicans), and "Uruk-Hai" (Democrats). Below it you'll find the good stuff:
  • A major liberal think tank admits that NOBODY knows how to fix public education
  • Five plus three equals five (and other merry math mistakes in major textbooks)
  • The sordid tale of states scrapping for federal cash
  • The true story of American education's biggest failure . . . in Kansas City
  • Why so many teachers are irked
  • What teachers actually make
  • "The flight of the little revenue units"
  • The new affirmative action: Discipline measured out by what racial/ethnic group you belong to
  • Bribing students to attend/do homework (this does not end well)
  • How to fake a school reform "success
For your seat at the train wreck, click this link below:

April issue of The Continuing Collapse
4. INFO: 22 new articles on our website
We frequently add new articles to our site. These are actually "old" (but still extremely useful) articles from past issues of Practical Homeschooling magazine.
 
Here are just a few of the 22 articles we recently added.

To read these, and hundreds of other great articles, click here.

5. BOOK: Your guide to the world of homeschooling

Mary Pride's Complete Guide You could buy a book on homeschool methods . . . a book on how to homeschool . . . a book on how to test and evaluate homeschooled kids . . . a book on learning styles . . . a book on how to create unit studies . . . a book on homeschooling special needs kids . . . a book on homeschooling gifted kids . . . a book on how to homeschool with a group . . . a book on homeschooling away from home . . .
 
OR you could simply buy Mary Pride's Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling. It contains ALL the above, and more! In this fifth edition of the FIRST book to ever include most of these topics, you receive over two decades of practical expertise from Mary Pride, our Practical Homeschooling reviewers, and well-known contributors such as Chris Klicka, Mardy Freeman, Mary Schofield, Rhonda Barfield, Jessica Hulcy, Karen Andreola, and Dr. Arthur Robinson.
 
Why buy nine books (or more) and spend $150 (or more), when you can get this ALL in one place for $29.99 by clicking here?
 
To see the first page of the Table of Contents, click here.
For the second page of the Table of Contents, click here.

Only 198 copies left, so grab yours now!
6. Write a Day at Our House diary!

Thanks so much to those of you who responded to this request in our last e-letter.

It's easier than you think to get "published" in a national homeschool magazine. We're always looking for more folks who will share their homeschool day with us.

This is for our "Day at Our House" feature in Practical Homeschooling magazine.

Just keep a diary for one day, type it into your computer, and email it to
[email protected].

Either send it as the body text of your email, or as an MSWord ".doc" attachment.

Please put "Day at Our House" in the subject line.

Please also attach a nice, clear, color photo of your family. If possible, show the kids in action, but if not, a regular posed photo is fine. Straight from the digital camera is best -- let us do the color correcting and resizing!

We can't run a diary without a photo, so scan it in or read it in from your camera, but make sure it is included!

Be sure to include your name, address, and telephone number in the body of your email, in case our editor needs to contact you.

Also please provide a "caption" for your photo, so we will know who is who from left to right.

We'd especially love to hear from families who homeschool in unusual or adventurous circumstances -- while sailing, or working with the circus, for example -- or whose kids are engaged in especially interesting or imaginative activities.

But we publish diaries from lots of "regular" homeschool families, too!

Your chances of getting published are very good.

So send your diary in!
7. How to advertise with us
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