Friday, August 10, 2012

Homeschooling on The Diane Rehm Show!

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

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