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What Makes it Matter?
By Martin Vervloet I have noticed a trend with my own children as my wife and I have endeavoured tohomeschool them. It doesn’t matter what the subject is, but they continually ask us,“Why do I need to know this, and will it matter when I grow up?” It’s a valid question and Imust admit there is a lot that I learned while in public school that was completelyirrelevant to anything I might do as I grew older. So, we focus on the basics; reading,writing,…
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The Early Years and the First Struggles of AHEA
Dave and Aline Stasiewich began home schooling in Edmonton in 1983. That same year they began hosting informal meetings at their house with a small number of other home educating families. The numbers of people attending continued to grow, so the meetings were moved to the Mill Woods Recreation Centre. This group became known as the Christian Home Educators (Edm) Association. It would later adopt the name Home School Christian Fellowship and it continues to thrive. Back in the mid-1980s many home educators lived…
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2024 AHEA Convention in Review
“Home schooling Reimagined” – AHEA Convention 2024 was another exciting time of gathering in Red Deer at theend of May, to enjoy speakers, attend work-shops, go curriculum shopping, make new friends and re-connect with each other. I was privileged to direct my second AHEA convention and it was again an honour. Connie Albers, a veteran homeschool mom from Florida, inspired and challenged us to stay the course. Douglas Bond, from Washington State, reminded us of important lessons in our history and Vishal Mangalwadi, originally…
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Why Do We Homeschool?
I was asked an interesting question at the AHEA convention this past spring that I was glad to answer, and I thought that it might be a question that others were asking. The question was simple and went something like this; “Why is it that homeschooling has such strong Christian roots?” Now, admittedly not all homeschoolers come from a Christian perspective, and the reasons a family might choose to homeschool can be diverse; but the Christian belief lends itself to the venue of homeschooling…
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