Celebrate Homeschool Freedom Day on the first day of public school wherever you live!<\/p>\n
I’ve\u00a0written about\u00a0my family’s\u00a0tradition\u00a0of Homeschool Freedom Day in my comments on several other folks’ blogs, so it seems like I ought to write about it on my own, don’t you think?<\/p>\n
We start\u00a0our official “new school year” at a different time every year, ranging from June to September, depending on many variables.\u00a0 (If you have\u00a0read my previous post about not categorizing times as school and not-school, you may think it’s inconsistent for me even to speak in terms of a “new school year,” and\u00a0I suppose you’d have a point.\u00a0 I\u00a0designate an official start to a “year”\u00a0primarily for the sake of conversing with the rest of society in terms they recognize, and also to simplify my own record-keeping and lesson-planning.\u00a0 I reluctantly even designate my children as being in certain “grades” to spare them confusion or awkwardness when talking with friends in the neighborhood or at church.\u00a0 Most people just really don’t want to hear a\u00a0dissertation on the Artificiality of Grade Designations as a Tool for Pigeonholing Large Groups of Children in Institutional Settings.)<\/p>\n
But I digress. . . .*<\/p>\n
No matter when we start our new “school year,” one thing always remains the same.\u00a0 On the first day of public school in our town,\u00a0my\u00a0boys\u00a0do NOT have any formal lessons.\u00a0 Instead, we celebrate Homeschool Freedom Day (a term I coined), usually by going to the park for a picnic with homeschooling friends . . . just because we can!\u00a0 We\u00a0revel in the freedom and flexibility that homeschooling makes possible.\u00a0 (The generally smaller crowd at the park when government school is in session is a nice bonus.)<\/p>\n
I’d love to hear how your family celebrates Homeschool Freedom Day!\u00a0 And if you like the idea but school has already started where you live, just pick a day . . . any day . .\u00a0. to celebrate your freedom.\u00a0 The Specific Holiday Date Enforcement\u00a0Squad will never know. . . .<\/p>\n
Mary Jo<\/p>\n
*Those of you who know me well will not be surprised to find me digressing from time to time.\u00a0 It’s been known to happen before.\u00a0 Those of you who don’t really know me yet will soon learn\u2014if\u00a0 you\u00a0read my blog regularly, which I hope you will\u2014that digressions and parentheses are a fairly routine element of my style.\u00a0 Sort of\u00a0like following an interesting rabbit trail in a unit study.\u00a0 And I’ve found that digressions and rabbit trails are often the most interesting parts of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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