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		<title>And now, a few words for our non-home-schooling public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get tired of people looking at me funny when I say the word &#8220;homeschooler&#8221;. You&#8217;d think I grew another head. However, I think the best course to combat funny looks is &#8230; some basic education, and that means popping a few illusions that The Non Homeschooling Public may harbor. But just a few, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>I Will Survive (homeschool video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now testing embed code. And what better subject than a mildly amusing take-off of &#8220;I Will Survive&#8221;, a la homeschool?]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=252</link>
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		<title>I ate this cigar for dinner.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s molecular gastronomy? Well, I like to think of it as what happens when Mister Science takes some LSD and is let loose at the Whole Foods catering kitchen. Chicago&#8217;s Fulton Market harbors Moto, a molecular gastronomy restaurant I read about several years ago. Actually, what brought it to my attention was an article talking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=217</link>
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		<title>Gack.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February sucks. (Which is why it&#8217;s particularly nice that it&#8217;s now March.) Why? Because as far as the school year goes, it&#8217;s Hump Month. (Stop Thinking That Right Now, You.) Seriously: you&#8217;ve survived the onslaught of the holidays, with that 3-day weekend blip for MLK. Once you&#8217;re past Valentine&#8217;s and Presidents, what&#8217;s left? A whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Where did it go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an older blog post from The More Child where the blogger asks, as an aside, whatever happened to actual history? Like Mesopotamia and explorers and all that? I&#8217;ll tell you where it&#8217;s gone. It&#8217;s been dissolved in a combination of That&#8217;s Not Politically Correct To Talk About Anymore (the Spaniards were horrible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Hippies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pookus recently finished a month-long book project wherein each student developed a short story, illustrated it, and then pasted it all together into a blank book. They had an author&#8217;s tea where each student read their book aloud to assembled parents and classmates. I know I&#8217;m bragging when I say Pookus&#8217; book drew a healthy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=174</link>
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		<title>Why would you do that?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s funny about homeschooling around here is that people can&#8217;t figure out why I&#8217;d  bother. The simple reason is that I want my kids&#8217; education to be what mine wasn&#8217;t. To wit: I want my kids to have a history education imbued with a sense of order and causality. I don&#8217;t want a disjointed multi-year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Why My (and Possibly Your) Bookworm Kid Hates Reading&#8230; But Only At School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the second grade, my child came home with a book report assignment. &#8220;Oh, a book report,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;that&#8217;ll be easy. My kid is reading on a fifth grade level, piece of cake.&#8221; No. It was torture. She could read the book, she could comprehend the book, but she couldn&#8217;t write about it. Getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>I. Am. Driving. Myself. Crazy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;by researching curriculum. All sorts &#8211; language arts, math, science, history. A person could go nuts with all the choices available to homeschoolers, and it appears that I am on my way to proving that theory true. Well, I read The Well Trained Mind and have drunk the Classical Education Kool-aid: I am a trivium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=118</link>
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		<title>So, young grasshopper &#8211; what have you learned?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, everybody out there in TV Land! Long time no blog, I know. We went full-gear into homeschooling and while there were definite rough patches, I think it&#8217;s going well. Things I&#8217;ve learned in the last couple of months: When you start, everyone asks &#8220;what&#8217;s are you going to do?&#8221; Well, it&#8217;s pretty much like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://practicalbits.com/?p=114</link>
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