{"id":6094,"date":"2006-02-16T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2006-02-16T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T13:03:27","slug":"will-i-be-cassandra-or-nostradamus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6094","title":{"rendered":"WILL I BE CASSANDRA OR NOSTRADAMUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose it depends whether anyone believes me that we&#8217;re <a HREF=\"http:\/\/heraldnet.com\/stories\/06\/02\/16\/100loc_a1homeschool001.cfm\">clearly<\/a> into <a HREF=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/archives\/004975.html\">phase two<\/a> in some parts of the country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very eclectic,&#8221; said Laurie Wheeler, who home-schools Sara , 12, and Yousif, 9.<\/p>\n<p>The family often joins Bec Thomas and her three home-schooled children, Jonas, 10, Aaron, 6, and Connor, 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sky is the limit,&#8221; said Thomas, noting that the women tailor lessons to their children&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>These Camano Island families are among the dwindling purists. The number of traditional home-schooling families in Snohomish and Island counties has dropped off in recent years as school-sponsored programs have grown increasingly popular.<\/p>\n<p>Home-schooled students registered with the state through Snohomish County school districts dropped 8 percent in the last five years, from 2,346 in fall 1998 to 2,166 in fall 2003, the latest year figures were available. Nearly 130 fewer families registered as educating their children at home.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, enrollment in parent partnership programs grew by about the same amount in one year alone, up 200 students to 2,000 this school year, according to the school districts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, the number of traditional home-schooled students remained flat over five years, at more than 19,300 in both 1999 and 2003, according to the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.<\/p>\n<p>The state does not track parent partnership enrollments; it will start doing so this summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose it depends whether anyone believes me that we&#8217;re clearly into phase two in some parts of the country: &#8220;We&#8217;re very eclectic,&#8221; said Laurie Wheeler, who home-schools Sara , 12, and Yousif, 9. The family often joins Bec Thomas and her three home-schooled children, Jonas, 10, Aaron, 6, and Connor, 4. &#8220;The sky is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}