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Home Based Business Idea – Online Tutor

Tutoring has always been a great way to work part time and earn money while helping others. Traditionally, tutors have met with their clients in person but there is a growing trend towards online tutoring. Students seek tutors when they are having trouble with a specific subject or if they are simply curious and want to learn more about a topic than their current curriculum provides. Tools like Skype, Dropbox, and Google Documents make it possible to have tutoring sessions with clients in the next town or halfway around the world. If you think that you would like to be … Continue reading →

What Homeschoolers Should Know About the Universal PK Agenda

If you don’t know it, Universal PK is a push towards creating free, publicly funded preschools. In other words it’s public school for preschool aged kids. Doesn’t sound too bad right? The NEA loves to tout research on how kids who go to a good preschool tend to earn about $2000 more per year than kids who didn’t and all of these other benefits that kids who don’t go to preschool miss out on. But behind the Universal PK agenda, is a push towards lowering compulsory attendance laws. Fundamentally, the message to parents is: ‘You can’t do this. You’re not … Continue reading →

True or False–Airplanes Have “Safe Seats?”

Growing up, my dad insisted that whenever we flew we absolutely, positively, had to sit over the airplane’s wing. He subscribed to the popular theory that the wing area provided the safest seats because (as some argue) that section of the plane is the most structurally sound. I never questioned him (why would I—he was my dad). So for years, no matter what type of aircraft or how short my flight was I always requested a window seat over the wing. (Never mind, that I missed out on some spectacular aerial views because they were obstructed by this massive piece … Continue reading →