I haven’t been able to figure this out- when you are PLaying Ticket To Ride and complete a destination on a card you have , then pick up another destination card and the routes are ones you have all ready completed within another destination- can you use it? We have just been discarding but not sure . I am bit of a stickler for rules so would like to know.
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Because their personal and business accounts have been frozen, Their accounts have been frozen becasue they are homeschooling their two kids! Homechooling of any kind in Germany is illegal.
In shocking article from Worldnetdaily.com another account of the way homeschooling families in Germany are treated. Highlights include this current case as well as others.
-How German officials targeted an American family of Baptist missionaries for deportation because they belong to a group that refuses “to give their children over to the state school system.”
-A teenager, Melissa Busekros, also returned to her family months after German authorities took her from her home and forcibly detained her in a psychiatric facility for being homeschooled.
-other families facing fines, frozen bank accounts and court-ordered state custody of their children for resisting Germany’s mandatory public school requirements, which by government admission are assigned to counter “the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion or motivated by different world views.”
To read the entire article: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58704
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Article in North Carolina’s Herald-Sun
Unschooling: Unconventional teaching approach gaining popularity
By Carolyn Norton : The Herald-Sun
CHAPEL HILL — Charles Morris and his wife, Robin, agreed early on they would homeschool their children.
They chose a curriculum and began teaching their son, Quinn, now 9. But when Quinn was 4, something happened.
He struggled to learn some subjects. He was miserable. And Quinn’s parents talked about sending him to public school.
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The article was unusually irritating for me- first it cited an article as it’s source- then it doesn; tell you WAHT the article or where to find it.
The tone of the article is also sarcastic and condescending. Also clearly author has no clue what unschooling is- saying that unschooling is about letting child pick there own curriculum. ARGH.
Monday, January 29, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com
It’s not exactly a brand-new ideal; in fact some theorists claim it was the original method for educating children. Whatever the case, the phenomenon of “unschooling” has seen a rebirth recently, as more and more parents lose faith and patience with the effects of conventional education.
According to a story in the Tennessean, focusing on several local families engaged in this homeschooling variation, the emphasis on making the child the primary, and often the only, decision-maker in picking curriculums. Whereas conventional schooling involves strictly regimented classes, timeframes and topics determined by outsiders, and even homeschooling often implies parent-developed curricula, under the unschooling model a child does pretty much whatever he or she desires to, with the stipulation that it involve some type of learning activity.
Some alleged “education experts,” the story notes, along with more than a few homeschooling advocates, are reportedly concerned that the methods might lead to “learning gaps.” However, at least in the cases of the families interviewed, the fears seem unfounded. As one unschooling mother is quoted as saying, “Honestly, what do children really need to know when they graduate from high school — to balance their checkbook, change the oil in the car and check the tire pressure, real-life things. I think those things are just as important as history, math and reading.” - ST
Staff Reports - Free-Market News Network
To view article :http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=32685
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A very thorough and balanced look at unschooling- again in The Tenneesean. One of the better articles I have seen in a long time.
Sunday, 01/28/07
‘Unschool’ parents: Kids can be own best teachers
Many educators fear free-form style leaves learning incomplete
BONNA de la CRUZ
Staff Writer
It’s midday on a Friday, and 9-year-old Miyana flips through a book about dragons before her attention turns to making Valentine’s Day cards at the kitchen table.
Her sister, Aeyah, 7, across the table, expertly threads a needle and sews a tiny cape for a clothespin superhero.
While other children their age are quietly sitting in a classroom, the Fisher-Miller children have the freedom to pass the time without order and doing as they please in their pursuit of knowledge.
Younger brother Ocea, almost 2, drops marbles into the bell of a trumpet. “He’s using it as a funnel,” says their mother, Suzanne Fisher-Miller. Brother Khai, 5, plays noisily with two friends, the back door slamming shut as they run in and out.
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