N.C. newspaper sponsors homeschooling blog
In what may be a first in North Carolina, the Hendersonville Times-News is hosting a homeschooling blog on their newspaper's website. Homeschooling in Henderson County is edited by Kerry Jones, a western N.C. native and mother of two homeschooled sons, and features a weekly listing of "opportunities and events" as well as news and announcements of interest to homeschoolers.
N.C.'s vaccination rules held up as standard for U.S. homeschoolers
An article in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics worries that unvaccinated homeschoolers are a public health problem, and holds up North Carolina's requirements as a good example for other states. Homeschooling researcher Dr. Milton Gaither (Messiah College, PA) reviews the article here and notes that a desire for privacy should not keep homeschoolers from joining the debate:
[H]omeschoolers do themselves and others a disservice when they remove their voices from this important public discussion in an quixotic effort to go off the grid. But given the lack of evidence in this article, it is by no means clear that homeschoolers are in fact off the grid on this issue.
(Milton Gaither, Homeschooling Research Notes, 7/11/08)
Homeschool family business is one of Charlotte's "top food experiences"
The Charlotte Observer recently highlighted Waxhaw's New Town Farms as one of Charlotte's "culinary 50":
A lot of hands keep Charlotte's local-food movement growing. But Sammy and Melinda Koenigsberg are the roots. He was co-founder of the Matthews Community Farmers Market. Their farm was one of the first in the area to add Community Supported Agriculture subscriptions. They're both active in Charlotte's Slow Foods chapter. Oh, and they home-school eight kids. Their enthusiasm for local food is infectious.
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