Are you a Secular Homeschooler?
Before I began homeschooling, I was so worried that we would not find anyone who could be accepting of us as liberal, secular people within the homeschool community. I, like many others in the public school world, believed that pretty much everyone who homeschools is extremely regilious, and we just wouldn’t fit in.
You can imagine my delight when I found a large active community of inclusive, eclectic homeschoolers right in my back yard. It is a group that welcomes people of all belief systems. We have those that are extremely religious, those that are agnostic, athiest, wicken, jewish, muslim. Differences extend to politics as well, and we range from ultra liberal to ultra conservative.
What is most gratifying is we ACCEPT the differences. Members of our community do not feel the need to change anyone else. You are free to believe whatever you want.
I am searching for bloggers who are tolerant of secular homeschoolers, or secular themselves. I don’t want to read a blog that is anti-religion, and I don’t want to read a blog that is anti-no religion. (Does that even make sense?)
If you know of some good homeschool bloggers, please post in the comments! If you write one, please post in the comments! I would love to have the list in my sidebar.
I’ve been compiling an entire list of secular homeschooling blogs at my website. Here is the link: http://www.secularhomeschool.com/viewPage.php?ID=Secular%20Homeschool%20Blogs
We also have an onsite blog tool as well, so there are great blog posts right on the site. AND there is even a digest of all the different secular homeschooling blogs at the bottom of the homepage of the site. Drop in and check us out!!
Hi TAM! I’m in Larimer, not Boulder County and don’t have a blog up and running yet, but I am working on a website. We’re partially hsing our youngest this year (some subjects at home) and actually do have our oldest back in ps this year with a grade skip — which is working well thus far (the GT coordinator at her middle school has been the best support we’ve ever had in the ps system). Our oldest has been back and forth btwn hs and ps.
I just wanted to post that I am early in the process, but I am working on getting together discounts for homeschoolers of gifted kids (not just locally). I only have a few commitments so I don’t have a “join the group” page up yet with discount codes, but I hope to have it together in the next month. Take a look at my site to see where I’m heading: http://www.GalileoEducation.org. We are secular despite a friend telling me that the combo of my Italian last name and Galileo in the title might make us sound Catholic
. Dh is a first generation Italian-American and I took the name of my site from his dad, Galileo.