The Foreign Service Journal, June 2004

78 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J U N E 2 0 0 4 S CHOOLS S UPPLEMENT “B ack in 1989, if you had asked me whether homeschooling might be a good option for my children, I would have answered with an emphatic ‘No!’ A Foreign Service spouse with three young boys, I was sure that homeschool was an option chosen only by missionaries and a few counter-culture types. “Times have changed. Homeschooling is now a popular and culturally acceptable choice. Many resources exist to support homeschools and state education laws have been written to respond to the rise in homeschooled children. Here are some of them: WWW.HOME-ED-MAGAZINE.COM Library, resources, online newsletter, monthly pub- lication. Look for their online Pocket Field Guide to Homeschooling. Click on “Resources – State Laws and Regulations.” WWW.NHEN.ORG The National Home Education Network WWW.UNSCHOOLING.COM Creating non-school learning environments WWW.CALVERTSCHOOL.ORG The Calvert School has offered homeschooling courses for almost 100 years. WWW.STATE.GOV/WWW.FLO/EDUCATION.HTML Family Liaison Office, Education. See Direct Communication Project Paper No. 30, The Home Study Option, available online F R O M T H E D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 0 S C H O O L S U P P L E M E N T Pat Olsen, “Homeschooling FS Kids? It Worked for Us”