{"id":32,"date":"2003-07-09T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=32"},"modified":"2003-07-09T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T00:24:00","slug":"why-i-homeschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Why I homeschool&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/LAW\/07\/08\/student.pregnancy.tests\/index.html\">CNN.com &#8211; Forced middle school STD testing draws lawsuit &#8211; Jul. 8, 2003<\/A><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNN) &#8212; School administrators forced several eighth-grade students to undergo tests for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases after they attended a party, the New York Civil Liberties Union claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday with federal court in Manhattan. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230;this isn&#8217;t really why I chose to homeschool &#8211; but I can&#8217;t believe this happened!  What about the parents?  Couldn&#8217;t they be trusted to make sure these children were disciplined?  Were they consulted at all?  <\/p>\n<p>What a world, what a world?<\/p>\n<p>(Anyone know what movie that&#8217;s from?  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My friend Trina and I got our hair cut on Wednesday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 My mom came over to babysit!\u00c2\u00a0 And, this was what we found upon our return.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess JGirl was pretty jealous about sharing her Grammy but finally Grammy made everyone so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osbornz.net\/amy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/003-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10530,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=10530","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":1},"title":"State of the Family Address (sort of! ;-)","date":"May 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow - I didn't post a single thing yesterday. \u00c2\u00a0Well, I would have, but I removed my Twitter stream from my blog (you can see it in the sidebar - or at the bottom of the page if you are view this on a mobile device - and I'm still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Faith&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osbornz.net\/amy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/6f0c4f3ab7f011e29e1622000a9d0ec7_7.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6193,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=6193","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":2},"title":"Random Thoughts","date":"August 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Between Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook, I sort of forgot about my blog. Today, I feel the urge to write down some of the random thoughts in my brain and see if I can make sense of them. The bloom is off the rose - Sissy has cried the past two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1950,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1950","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":3},"title":"Our Plan","date":"February 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Why post our homeschool plan online?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I can't tell you how many times I've tried to get ideas for different subjects\/grade levels and wished more homeschoolers would share what they are using and what they think about it.\u00c2\u00a0 And, I've always found the best way to get others to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeschooling&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2724,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=2724","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":4},"title":"2 weeks down, 34 to go!","date":"September 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"So, we've done two weeks of school for J2 & J3....one week for J1.\u00c2\u00a0 So far it's been more positive than negative and that's good!\u00c2\u00a0 Every little bit helps! We start our day with Bible - we are viewing videos from Goodseed International \"Stranger on the Road to Emmaus\" and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1985,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1985","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":5},"title":"My thoughts on Teaching Textbooks","date":"February 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Lately on a small homeschool group I particpate in we've been talking about Teaching Textbooks which I started to use this year with my two oldest boys.\u00c2\u00a0 Also I shared my thoughts on using it with a child with significant reading disabilties on the Teaching Textbooks yahoogroup this weekend -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Faith&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}