{"id":6762,"date":"2006-07-30T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T16:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2006-07-30T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T16:37:52","slug":"homeschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6762","title":{"rendered":"HOMESCHOOL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know Illinois home education law well enough to say if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-gazette.com\/news\/education\/2006\/07\/28\/new_home_school_puts_focus_on_black\">this<\/a> fits the legal defintion, but it sure doesn&#8217;t sound like any homeschool I&#8217;ve ever heard of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A small community home school for middle school-aged black boys will begin classes next month, with the aim of providing an education that sets high expectations and accommodates individual learning styles.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh Estabrook of Champaign and William and Lori Patterson of Urbana founded the Campus Academy, which will begin classes Aug. 23 for six to eight students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The curriculum for the Campus Academy will include core classes in math, science, computer technology, foreign language, social studies, language arts, Latin and critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The school now has four volunteer teachers: Carl Estabrook, a retired history and sociology professor; and three UI graduate and professional students. The school is searching for a head teacher, which will be a paid position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A paid &#8220;administrator&#8221; and several volunteers who don&#8217;t have kids in the program?  Sure sounds like a private school to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know Illinois home education law well enough to say if this fits the legal defintion, but it sure doesn&#8217;t sound like any homeschool I&#8217;ve ever heard of: A small community home school for middle school-aged black boys will begin classes next month, with the aim of providing an education that sets high expectations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}