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It is always in season for old men to learn. |
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Older Kids Do-It-Yourself Group Activities for Teenagers |
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Cafi Cohen |
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Some homeschooling families have to work hard to help their teenagers find social opportunities. Perhaps you live in a small town or rural area. Your teenager may want to make new friends. Or she may seek an outlet for a new interest. If so, consider organizing an activity with other homeschooled teenagers in your vicinity. Here are several tested do-it-yourself ideas.
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How Do We Know When We're Done? |
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Cafi Cohen |
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If you attend high school, it's simple. From roughly the ages of 14-18, you sit in a chair six hours a day for 180 days each year. You study carefully balanced amounts of English, math, social studies, and science, and take extras like foreign language, physical education, and drama. Do all that with passing grades, and they give you a diploma.
But how do homeschooling families decide when their teenagers have completed high school? What combination of academic work, accomplishment, and time is enough? How do families evaluate their teenager's learning and decide What's Enough?
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Organizing A Homeschool Group For Success |
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Carol L. Topp |
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"We're just a bunch of moms meeting together," a homeschool-group leader protested. "We don't want all the hassles of bank accounts, board meetings and bylaws." Frequently when I'm assisting homeschool groups, I encourage establishing a board of directors and creating bylaws for their group. Some leaders may wonder why a board and bylaws are needed at all. Here are some reasons.
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