HeyJaredRobert Bortins
Homeschooled to Homeschooler, CEO of Classical Conversations serving 135k students, 3x Father, 3x Rugby National Champ, Eduprenuer, Join the Movement
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Stay Home, and Someone Else Decides (opens the original)
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In 2017, a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates came down to a name pulled out of a bowl.After a recount and a court challenge, the race for the 94th District ended in a tie. So election officials put each candidate’s name in a film canister, dropped them into a bowl, and drew one. That drawing decided the seat. The seat decided which party controlled the chamber. And the chamber decided a whole lot of things for a whole lot of families who, in all likelihood, never learned how close it was.I
Charlie Kirk Was Right: Homeschooling Will Save America (opens the original)
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While the public school system is centered around standards and compliance, homeschooling opens the doors to a more civic understanding of families and individuals.I don’t see public schools educating on the importance of delayed gratification, literacy in history and classical principles, and resistance against consumerist fashion and propaganda… but in my conversations with homeschooling families across the nation I see those topics being discussed as part of their curriculum with their kids.A
What Homeschoolers Are Reading As Seniors (opens the original)
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Three years ago, a homeschool student sat with Beowulf, learning what makes a choice noble. Two years ago, she sat with Hamlet and Macbeth, learning what a choice costs. Now, in her final year of the Classical Conversations® Challenge program, she sits with The Iliad, and the question has matured into its final form: what does it mean to lead well, knowing what a choice will cost?That is the theme of Challenge IV, understanding consequences defines leadership, and it is a fitting close to a four
What Homeschoolers Are Reading their Junior year (opens the original)
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Last year, a homeschool student sat with Beowulf and The Hobbit, tracing what it means to make a noble choice. This year, the same student sits with Hamlet and Macbeth, and the question has sharpened into something harder: once a choice is made, what does it cost?That is the governing theme of Challenge III, the Classical Conversations® program for students ages sixteen and up, roughly equivalent to eleventh grade. Where Challenge II asked students to weigh the nobility of a choice, Challenge II
What Homeschoolers Are Reading in 10th grade (opens the original)
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A fifteen-year-old sits at her kitchen table with a worn paperback of Beowulf open beside her notes. In a few months, that same table will hold The Pilgrim’s Progress. By spring, The Hobbit. She is not working through a random assortment of old books. She is walking a deliberate path through the British literary tradition, and every stop on that path exists to answer one question: what does it mean to make a noble choice?That question is the spine of Challenge II, the Classical Conversations® pr
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