The Carnival is hosted this week at Bugs, Knights, and Turkeys In the Yard. Melissa writes about some of the things that happen in May including Mother’s Day and Memorial Day.

…a May sprinkling of this and that!

May, May, May!

The month of May can be so FuLL…

There’s the beautiful weather to be out enjoying

Mother’s Day is in May

Nature is abounding with new things during the month of May

Some of us are enthusiastically wrapping up our homeschool year in May

Weddings begin to pop up in May

There are May flowers to stop and smell

And who would miss National Dance Like a Chicken Day, which is in May!?!? wink Read more…

More press for Wayne Allen Root and his Daughter Dakota – interviewed on Fox News. The usual misconceptions about homeschooling are discussed.

Via TuscaloosaNews.com

TUSCALOOSA | For the past few months, a student has been toiling away under the direction of a University of Alabama professor to create and build an exhibit for the McWane Science Center.

That’s not out of the ordinary for a university. Except the student in this case is a 17-year-old high schooler.

“It’s actually pretty rare for a junior in high school to do this,” said Heath Turner, a professor of chemical engineering at UA. Read more…

A Letter to the Editor in the Daily Herald (Chicago). Although I doubt anyone will take this writer up on her idea, she has a good point about working to pay for child care so you can work. However, I’d be weary of any government incentive for homeschooling. It always comes with strings attached.

Look at the financial mess the schools are in now. Parents go to work to pay into the school system, so the school system can watch over and try to educate the children while parents work feverishly to pay into the school system.

The teachers feel they deserve more and more of the taxpayers money, so parents work harder and longer to feed the already corrupt system. The overtime the parents work turns into after school programs that tax the system even more by requiring that teachers supervise the children long after the school day has ended until the parents are done with overtime at work to pay the taxes to pay the teachers. Read more…

Hosted this week at Under the Golden Apple Tree.

It is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Homeschooling. Thank you to all who have participated by submitted their wonderful blog posts or by making the sacrifice of time by reading the posts. I hope you all enjoy yourselves.
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Via Caboolture Shire Herald (Australia)

PARENTS are taking over educating their children as schools fail to protect them from bullying, claims a home schooling advocate.
Homeschooling Association of Queensland president Bob Osmak warned the number of parents inquiring about homeschooling was rising.
“Many parents are becoming aware that the Queensland system is failing to educate their children and, not only that, the children are being bullied and physically assaulted at school,’’ Mr Osmak said. “I get a lot of phone calls from parents all over the state who want to take their children out of school.’’ Read more…

Via Frontiersman

Let me begin by saying that choosing to educate children at home is not for everyone.

Quite frankly, it requires a lot of time and energy that many, perhaps even most, parents are not willing to invest in their child. And on top of time and energy, there is also a lot of sacrifice involved, such as financial sacrifice. And this is especially true for those families who not only support local public schools through their property tax dollars, but have also chosen to remain independent of the public school system and not collect a per-child percentage of the money various districts receive for having the additional students on their attendance rolls. Read more…

Via South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com. A homeschooled teen runs a charitable fashion boutique. We heard of this charity once before more than 2 years ago.

Shamoni O’Garro thumbs through racks of elegant dresses. Like most of her fellow 18-year-olds eager for prom, O’Garro is looking for the perfect dress.

Only she’s not paying for it.

O’Garro and her 15-year-old sister, Shenyece, are shopping at Taylor’s Closet, a Pompano shop that offers an exclusive shopping experience for underprivileged girls who can’t afford new clothes. Read more…

Via theage.com.au.

More parents are taking up home schooling, or so figures would have you believe, but beneath the surface a newfound openness and greater sense of mainstream acceptance might be truer catalysts. Robert Fedele reports.

When class starts to assemble in the Gardner household, no-one is exactly sure how the day will unfold.

And that is precisely the way it’s been planned. Read more…

Via WIS News 10 – Columbia, South Carolina |

A bill going through the state House of Representatives threatens to take away kids’ drivers license if they drop out of school or miss too many days.

On the surface, it seems like it might work, but one group of parents says it’s not fair to their kids. Read more…