I've read many, many op/eds, news reports, blog posts and letters to the editor about homeschooling. After years of doing this, fielding the same old questions has lost any charm it ever had, and the latest from USA Today (and blogged at Home Education Magazine) only made me sigh at the sloppy thinking.
Since the general public embraces the practice of testing people to see if they are qualified to work at a job, or hold a position of influence, I've put together what is perhaps the first test for non-homeschool writers who want to write about homeschooling. If you cannot complete this crossword, a puzzle that contains only a few of the items I totted up in a list of possible clues and answers, do not write about homeschooling: you don't know enough. If you honor the system that most usually gets the kudos for educating children (schools), and if you fail this test, you won't write your article yet.
Click on the images to make them big enough to see.
[update: the clue I put in to 6 across was something like, "Supreme court ruling that states that the child is not a creature of the state." I have no clue why it said "No clue."]
When I've got more spare time, I may just look into really complicated puzzles. That should be fun.
The answers are at one of my other blogs: Repatria.
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