Posted on 03.09.18 by Danny Glover @ 10:27 pm
Three months to the day after submitting the request, today I received a six-month authorization to fly my drone for commercial purposes in the airspace that surrounds Manassas Regional Airport. This is a big development for Airscape Photography, my aerial photography business. It means I can start marketing my services to real-estate agents and other potential clients close to home. I also can move forward with plans to offer a drone class to homeschooled students. Airscape Photography is an FAA-certified drone photography and cinematography company based in Northern Virginia. We specialize in real estate imagery, including footage of golf courses and resorts, and aerial landscape photography. Our other services include aerial inspections of residential and commercial properties for insurance, inventory and other purposes. Contact me at airscapephoto@gmail.com to schedule an aerial shoot of your home, business or other property! And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. (Photo credit to Cedar Box Photography, which shadowed my visual observer and me on our last project just outside Haymarket, Va.) Filed under: Aerial Photography and Business and Drones and Home Schooling and Photography and Virginia Comments: None |
Posted on 01.11.18 by Danny Glover @ 7:50 pm
We live in the information age, not the industrial age, and we educate accordingly — just like the parents of “Young Einstein” Romanieo Golphin Jr. He was featured on “The Today Show” this morning, and the reference to him being homeschooled sent me to Google for more information. Here’s what The Washington Post said about a year ago:
Education isn’t a static process, and neither should the systems that foster it be. Filed under: Education and Home Schooling and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 03.02.15 by Danny Glover @ 8:45 pm
We believe the most important lessons in life are moral. Government-run schools long ago stopped feigning even the slightest interest in acknowledging God, let alone teaching biblically based values, and now most of them are even worse. They actively promote competing worldviews like moral relativism:
Justin McBrayer, the college professor who penned those words in The New York Times, isn’t down on public schools. He simply encourages educators to be morally responsible in the way they teach impressionable students. But no such sea change is likely to occur in U.S. public schools anytime soon, so homeschooling often is the wiser option. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Government and Religion and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 02.02.15 by Danny Glover @ 7:48 pm
We believe imagination is a part of education and don’t like to see it quashed like this:
(Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Books and Movies and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 04.15.14 by Danny Glover @ 8:09 pm
We want a better return on our investment in terms of educational quality than today’s public schools can even hope to offer. Public education is so bad these days that no matter how much money the government throws at the problem, nothing changes for the better and it often gets worse. The bonus ROI for homeschoolers: hours of extra quality time with our children because of how much less time it takes to educate them and when we choose to do it. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Government and Home Schooling and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 11.19.13 by Danny Glover @ 9:15 pm
We don’t want to be arrested by an overzealous policeman on a power trip supported by school officials. That’s what happened to parent Jiim Howe when he arrived to pick up his two children after school.
Sorry, but in this case, both the sheriff’s deputy and the school policy were wrong. The deputy had the discretion not to arrest the man, and he chose to use a heavy hand. Homeschoolers don’t have fetch their children from a prison-like “holding area” or fear arrest if they challenge a nonsensical policy. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Government and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 05.12.13 by Danny Glover @ 12:22 am
We don’t want our children educated in an environment where a teacher lets an unruly student bully her (and other students film the episode), where the disruptive student wins praise for ranting at the teacher, and where neither the mother (a teacher herself) nor school administrators punish the student for being inexcusably disrespectful. There are no winners in this episode at Duncanville High School in Texas, which sadly earned 18-year-old sophomore Jeff Bliss 86 seconds of YouTube fame: The message to teachers is that students can shout you down without consequence, and the message to students is that they are in control of the classroom. That’s an unhealthy atmosphere for teaching children who actually want to learn — even if, as Dallas Morning News columnist Tod Robberson argues, Bliss had a valid point about his teacher’s instructional methods. “Teaching by ‘packet’ is no way to get through to young minds,” Robberson wrote in a column decrying Bliss’ behavior and the reaction to it. “… But his choice of protest venues and methods is one I will never celebrate. He owes everyone involved an apology.” (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: 1980s and Business and Culture and Education and Government and Human Interest and Media and News & Politics and Parenting and People and Rednecks and Video and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 04.20.13 by Danny Glover @ 12:28 am
We don’t want our children subjected to the disciplinary whims of school officials who lack common sense and ignore their own policies about what qualifies as acceptable behavior, speech or dress. The latest case of bureaucratic overreach occurred at Logan Middle School in my home state of West Virginia, where an anti-gun zealot who also happens to be a teacher picked a fight with a student over his pro-Second Amendment t-shirt. This particular student, eighth-grader Jared Marcum, was old enough to protest — and did. Marcum should have respected authority enough to change shirts and let his father argue the point, but he’s just a kid. When that didn’t happen, the adults in the room should have acted like it. Instead, the school not only suspended Marcum but also had him arrested, a decision that forced Marcum’s father to leave work and just inflamed the situation further. Unfortunately, Marcum’s case is not unique, and the other students punished by public schools for simulating guns or carrying toy guns have been far younger. Here’s a list of the incidents, which likely will continue to grow as the hysteria over guns does:
These anti-gun witch hunts of children (and their parents) have become so ridiculous since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting last December that one Maryland lawmaker has proposed legislation to crack down on the schools, not the students. By teaching our children at home, we don’t subject them or ourselves to such nonsense. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Business and Education and Government and Human Interest and Hunting & Guns and People and Rednecks and West Virginia and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 02.23.13 by Danny Glover @ 9:32 pm
We don’t want our children to have to wonder whether they’re sharing bathrooms with boys who think they’re girls or girls who think they’re boys. That’s precisely the scenario students in Massachusetts (and their disapproving parents) now face thanks to rules that refuse to acknowledge gender realities:
“[We're] going to have to go to individual rooms to keep things from getting out of hand or uncomfortable for someone any way you look at it,” a Facebook friend of mine noted. All the more reason to home-school, where individual bathrooms are the norm. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Culture and Education and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
Posted on 06.12.12 by Danny Glover @ 1:41 pm
We don’t want to ruin our children’s lives — and that’s exactly what one college professor in Florida predicts will happen to U.S. students whose parents entrust them to public schools rather than making the noble sacrifice of educating their children at home. His arguments against public schools:
That’s four lessons on why we home-school rolled into one from an educator whose own two children learn at home. And here’s a bonus: “The home-education movement has unleashed the forces of capitalism in such a way that anyone can find dozens of types of curricula for any grade level to help educate their kids in areas where one might not be an expert.” (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Education and Government and Home Schooling and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
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