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Teach Your Own Children through High School: A seminar by Pat Farenga

Thornton Heights Methodist Church, 100 Westbrook Street, South Portland, ME

June 21, 2008 from 1 - 4PM. Click here to register online

Learn how you, and other adults, can mentor your child towards college or adult work without passage through conventional high school. Topics covered include:

• Can you really live and learn peaceably with teenage homeschoolers?

• What are Carnegie units and high school transcripts? Can I use them to document my homeschooling experiences?

• How do homeschoolers gain college admissions?

• Can you find work worth doing without a college degree?

• Why should I document my work and creating a valid transcript?

• What are distance learning, correspondence, and Internet programsfor teens?

• What's the proof that unschooling and homeschooling create good citizens and college graduates as well as public schools?

This seminar is presented by Patrick Farenga, unschooling dad of three daughters (ages 15, 18, 21) and the author of Teenage Homeschoolers: College or Not? (Holt Associates), editor of Cafi Cohen's book, And What About College? How Homeschooling Leads to Admission to The Best Colleges and Universities (Holt Associates), and co-author of Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (Perseus)