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For those that don’t homeschool…Don’t think you know anyone who homeschools? You probably do.

Tim Tebow, quarterback for the Florida Gators at the University of Florida is the only sophomore ever to win the Heisman Trophy.

Famous people who are or were homeschooled or who homeschool their children. Just a couple you may have heard of include Lisa Whelchel who played Blair on the television show “The Facts of Life” and Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales.

A side note: The State of Alabama’s “Tim Tebow Bill” is legislation that will allow homeschooled students equal access to sports and extracurricular activities.

Deborah Markus of Secular Homeschooling Magazine must have been reading my mind when she wrote The Bitter Homeschooler’s Wish List. I wish she would put it on a t-shirt! To read the full article, visit http://www.secular-homeschooling.com/001/bitter_homeschooler.html.

Here are a few of my favorites:

• 2 Learn what the words “socialize” and “socialization” mean, and use the one you really mean instead of mixing them up the way you do now. Socializing means hanging out with other people for fun. Socialization means having acquired the skills necessary to do so successfully and pleasantly. If you’re talking to me and my kids, that means that we do in fact go outside now and then to visit the other human beings on the planet, and you can safely assume that we’ve got a decent grasp of both concepts.

• 7 We don’t look horrified and start quizzing your kids when we hear they’re in public school. Please stop drilling our children like potential oil fields to see if we’re doing what you consider an adequate job of homeschooling.

• 13 Stop assuming that because the word “home” is right there in “homeschool,” we never leave the house. We’re the ones who go to the amusement parks, museums, and zoos in the middle of the week and in the off-season and laugh at you because you have to go on weekends and holidays when it’s crowded and icky.

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California homeschoolers are homeschooling as usual. Ann Zeise of A to Z Home’s Cool cautions homeschoolers not to panic. She has posted resources for those who want to follow what’s going on with California homeschooling and read the original decision.

Debbie Schwarzer, HSC Legal Team Co-chair, posted information on what to do and what not to do on the list sponsored by HSC, the large California Homeschool Association, HomeSchool California (HSC). You can read the article here.