My husband is a HUGE fan of Diane Rehm – and really all things on NPR. He shared
this recent episode with me and then we stayed up talking about it after he got home from work. It was THAT good.
At least I thought so. And my husband thought so. I think the first
reason we were both excited is that Diane Rehm is kind of a big deal. So
for her to devote a show to the topic of homeschooling while providing
the opportunity for us to listen to her fully engaged in the
conversation was rather exciting. What we also enjoyed about the show
is that the mom and author who was being interviewed, Quinn Cummings,
hit the nail on the head with all of her responses and insights about
homeschooling.
Even when the very cranky public school teacher called in trying to
defend the public school environment. But throughout the interview,
Quinn was nothing but supportive of public school teachers and all that
they do. In fact, another public school teacher later called in to thank
her for that. Every homeschooler I know certainly has nothing but
respect and admiration for the monumental task public school teachers
have.
Here is the link to the NPR page
with information about the episode. There’s a link to “listen” in the
upper left corner above the title and I encourage you to do so.
Scrolling through the comments at the bottom of the page was also pretty interesting…
And
here is the link to the book
written by the mom in the interview. Let me know if you’ve read it!
I’ll probably add it to my already lengthy list of books I want to read
at some point.
~ Dori
