Satirical humor site The Onion has posted a great reversal of the arguments against homeschooling. The site, usually know for it’s plain silly stories, actually makes amazingly insightful points with this parody. (Thanks to Liz and David for the tip!)

WASHINGTON – According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education, an increasing number of American parents are choosing to have their children raised at school rather than at home.

Deputy Education Secretary Anthony W. Miller said that many parents who school-home find U.S. households to be frightening, overwhelming environments for their children, and feel that they are just not conducive to producing well-rounded members of society.

Thousands of mothers and fathers polled in the study also believe that those running American homes cannot be trusted to keep their kids safe. Read more…

I have occasionally seen these info-graphics on the web and now I know they were done by a 17-year-old homeschooler.

Fox is home-schooled, and he attributes the project in part to the scheduling flexibility and the creative agency that homeschooling gives him. In addition to his high school course work (he follows a mostly self-directed curriculum, guided by his parents), Fox also takes digital radio courses at the local community college. He also experiments with music. He also puts his interest in journalism, data, and web design to work in his freelance infographic projects. Read more…

Via University Press (Florida Atlantic University)

Justin Thompson is just one of the guys on FAU’s men’s golf team, but one thing sets him apart: He was home-schooled.

Thompson was home-schooled from sixth grade through high school, and he attributes much of his golfing success to the free time that home schooling afforded him.

“When you can make up your own schedule as far as your schoolwork, and you can do school around your practice, you can actually improve more than kids that are going to school eight hours a day on a regular schedule,” said Thompson. Read more…

A brief TV news story from WCTV Florida.

Carol Richardson relies on a Christian-based curriculum to teach her three children. She has been home-schooling them for the past four years and decided to choose this path primarily for religious reasons. While creationism is their belief, she also feels it’s necessary to teach evolution.

“We really want our children to understand why they believe what they believe and to be able to defend that. And part of that, if you’re going to be able to defend what your world view and your belief system, you have to be able to understand what other people believe and what they are teaching,” explained Richardson. Read more…

…maybe someday? Via OneNewsNow.com

A home-school education leader believes the growth in the number of home-school students will reap an immense benefit in the future of America’s workforce and education system.

Federal government statistics reveal that home schooling has doubled in less than ten years, with as many as 1.5 million kids being taught primarily at home. Read more…

Should we expect more asylum seekers? Via LifeSiteNews.com.

MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the fact that his children passed difficult government imposed tests, and even qualified for law school at the ages of 13 and 14, homeschooler Cleber Nunes and his wife Bernadeth have been slapped with fines equivalent to a total of $3,200 for refusing to submit their children to the Brazilian school system.

However, Nunes told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that he has no intention to pay the fine, although he says that he might have to spend 15-30 days in jail if he does not.

Although homeschooling is common in many countries, including the United States, and is associated with higher levels of academic achievement, it is completely prohibited in Brazil, the government of which has become increasingly intrusive in recent decades following the establishment of a socialist regime in the 1990s. Read more…

From the Love in a Time of Homeschooling blog in Psychology Today: Author Laura Brodie shares a story of a parent who started homeschooling because of bullying. At the end, she asks for readers to share their thoughts.

When I first started to write about the year I spent homeschooling my daughter, I was surprised at all the parents who said “Yes, I did that for a while,” or “I have friends who homeschooled for a year.” And what was one of the most common reasons for pulling a child temporarily from school? Bullying.

My initial response was skeptical. Didn’t homeschooling the children teach them that it was OK to run away from their problems? Weren’t the bullies still waiting when the children returned to school? Read more…

The Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted this week at homegrownmommy.com She has a nicely organized collection of post from homeschool bloggers everywhere.

There is such a wealth of information in Carnival of Homeschooling for this week, that it is really hard to know where to start! I’ll just have all you contributors know that it took me 3 times longer than I thought to put this carnival together because every time I got done reading one of your articles, I just had to keep reading more and more articles from your blogs!

I genuinely hope everyone enjoys this week’s edition and that you are blessed with some encouragement and some new ideas from your time. Enjoy! Read more…

Via LifeSiteNews. A German family seeking asylum in Canada due to persecution because of homeschooling. See previous stories on the German family granted Asylum in the USA.

While many choose to homeschool for religious reasons, these parents, who do not wish to be identified, say rather that they wish to homeschool as a matter of conscience and for the medical well-being of their two teenage sons. The boys both suffer from various illnesses after having been born four months premature.

The government had placed them in a school for the physically and mentally disabled, but the parents felt that they would not receive the best education there, so they chose to homeschool. Read more…

Via Daily Monitor: Truth Everyday; Uganda News

Being a secondary school teacher by profession and having a school herself, Mrs Kikonyogo did not think there was any other way of educating children other than how she had been educated. This was until she met children of her relatives who were home-schooled. “They were very confident children and it is them, not their parents, that clearly explained the concept in detail. They were not your usual shy, timid children. I was very impressed and immediately took it up.”

Three years later, Ms Kikonyogo has no regrets. “Even the people who scoffed at me for taking my children out of the traditional school system have no words when they meet my children. They also want to start,” she avers. Read more…