Sailor Boon

Classes

Taken from Practical Homeschooling Magazine, September/October 2013 issue
www.home-school.com

 

The list of “things you can learn at home” just got a bit longer.

Offshore Sailing School and the BoatUS Foundation have put together – wait for it – an “Online Learn to Sail” course.

The narrated curriculum includes “easy-to-comprehend video, animations, and Offshore Sailing School instructors teaching aboard the Colgate 26.”  The curriculum distills “best practices learned over nearly 50 years of Offshore Sailing School instruction.”

While it won’t teach you the muscle memory and reactions necessary to keep from, say, knocking yourself into the water when you come about, it is designed to help you learn the new terms and definitions that recreational sailors need to know.

The cost is $75, but the course will be available for a limited time at the introductory price of $55.  It can be found at www.BoatUS.org/offshoresailing.

The school has educated more than 130,000 students since 1964 and is ranked #1 by Practical Sailor in both instructors and curriculum.  For more information, go to www.offshoresailing.com.

The BoatUS Foundation offered the first free online boating safety course in 1997.  Since then over a million boaters have taken their online courses.  Funded primarily by members of BoatUS, it offers only free online, NASBLA-approved boating safety courses recognized by 33 states.  The Online Learn to Sail course is the first of many more advanced online learning courses the Foundation plans to offer.  Fore more information, go to www.BoatUS.com/foundation.

 

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Exposing Major Blind Spots of Homeschoolers

Burn Out, Informative, Parenting, Single Parents, Special Needs

 by Reb Bradley

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In the last couple of years, I have heard from multitudes of troubled homeschool parents around the country, a good many of whom were leaders. These parents have graduated their first batch of kids, only to discover that their children didn’t turn out the way they thought they would. Many of these children were model homeschoolers while growing up, but sometime after their 18th birthday they began to reveal that they didn’t hold to their parents’ values.

Some of these young people grew up and left home in defiance of their parents. Others got married against their parents’ wishes, and still others got involved with drugs, alcohol, and immorality. I have even heard of several exemplary young men who no longer even believe in God. My own adult children have gone through struggles I never guessed they would face.

Most of these parents remain stunned by their children’s choices, because they were fully confident their approach to parenting was going to prevent any such rebellion.

After several years of examining what went wrong in our own home and in the homes of so many conscientious parents, God has opened our eyes to a number of critical blind spots common to homeschoolers and other family-minded people. (more…)

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Not All Good Jobs Require a Bachelor’s Degree

Informative, Organization

By Russ Beck
Printed in Practical Homeschooling #30, 1999.

There is life without college! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the new millennium approximately 75 percent of the jobs in the workplace will not require a bachelor’s degree. In fact, one of the fastest-growing segments of the workplace will be high-wage, high-skill technical jobs that require from one to three years of training or education. According to Workforce 2020, published by the Hudson Institute,

In the early 21st century…a larger share of fast growing occupations also will require education beyond high school, but not necessarily a four-year college degree. (more…)

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