{"id":4736,"date":"2005-03-21T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2005-03-21T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T10:19:58","slug":"high-school-optouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"HIGH SCHOOL OPTOUTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to find anything to disagree with in Michael Smith&#8217;s latest <I>Washington Times<\/I> <A HREF=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20050320-092252-1935r.htm\">column<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interestingly, many parents intend to home-school only until sixth or seventh grade. It&#8217;s a strange paradox. Many home-school families plan to stop home-schooling right at the time when there is the greatest need for the one-on-one tutoring and high-quality education home-schooling provides.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t these parents have a vision for home-schooling through high school? The main reason is a concern about the ability of parents to teach high school level classes. At first glance, it&#8217;s an understandable fear, but it is nonetheless unfounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see every HEK make it all the way through high school at home, but if that doesn&#8217;t work for the family, at least try to get them through the emotionally tumultuous middle-school\/junior high years &#8212; the added maturity will make the pressures of senior high easier to handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to find anything to disagree with in Michael Smith&#8217;s latest Washington Times column: Interestingly, many parents intend to home-school only until sixth or seventh grade. It&#8217;s a strange paradox. Many home-school families plan to stop home-schooling right at the time when there is the greatest need for the one-on-one tutoring and high-quality education home-schooling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}