Academy Caritas

Because it isn’t always easy for pagans and oth­ers who don’t fit the Chris­t­ian Coali­tion stereo­types to find home­school­ing resources and sup­port groups, I’ve col­lected a list of links to specif­i­cally for us. Some of these are local to Geor­gia or the Atlanta area, but most are not. There are other sites with far more com­pre­hen­sive lists of links for gen­eral home­school­ers, and I’m not going to try to repro­duce them. One of my favorites is Jon’s Home­school Resource Page.

Cre­ative Home Edu­ca­tors is a home­school­ing sup­port group that wel­comes all peo­ple in Geor­gia inter­ested in home edu­ca­tion (home­school­ers, after­school­ers, unschool­ers, dis­tance learn­ers, etc.) and earth-centered or pagan tra­di­tions. UUs, Quak­ers, and peo­ple from other lib­eral reli­gious tra­di­tions are wel­come as well. The group is intended to be a peace­ful forum, and mem­bers are expected be respect the diver­sity of other’s beliefs. We have reg­u­lar play dates, co-ops, and field trips.

Resource list:

• The Home Edu­ca­tion Infor­ma­tion Resource main­tains com­pre­hen­sive list­ings of sup­port groups in Geor­gia as well as excel­lent infor­ma­tion regard­ing cur­rent and pro­posed leg­is­la­tion affect­ing homeschoolers.
• Atlanta Alter­na­tive Edu­ca­tion Net­work is an inclu­sive sup­port group for fam­i­lies in the Atlanta area.
• National Home Edu­ca­tion Net­work—a rel­a­tively new inclu­sive national group
• Home Edu­ca­tion Mag­a­zine is the only home­school­ing mag­a­zine I’ve actu­ally had in my hands so far that does not have a con­ser­v­a­tive Chris­t­ian focus.
• Learn in Freedom!
• The Eclec­tic Home­school Online
• HUUmans at Home is “for home­learn­ing Uni­tar­ian Uni­ver­sal­ists and kin­dred spirits”
• HUUH-L Archives has some posts and resources sug­gested on a mail­ing list for UU homeschoolers.
• Sacred Grove Acad­emy—pagan umbrella school for Alabama homeschoolers
• Alter­na­tive Edu­ca­tion Resource Organization
• Auto­di­dact Press

This sec­tion con­tains infor­ma­tion that I think all home edu­ca­tors must know:

• Need I Join the HSLDA?
• Home­school­ing Free­doms at Risk
• The Rav­age of Home Edu­ca­tion Through Exclu­sion By Reli­gion—white paper by Dr. Ray­mond Moore