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Homefires Product Reviews

Homefires' Product Review Team consists of homeschool families who sort through a variety of products sent to us by companies for consideration. Then, the families provide feedback on the product. If they like it, we publish their review on Homefires. We publish the reviews with the hope that it may save you some time in finding useful products for your family with the caveat that what works for one family, may not work all.

Product Reviews:

• SmartDraw: Homeschool Edition Review
• Discovery Education Streaming
• Creativity Express

No More Guessing About How To Teach Your Children!

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How To Get YOUR NAME listed in the credits
of a powerful new Film

That will reform Education in America
as it answers the question...

Do We Really Need School?

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of "success" as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, "schooling," but historically that isn't true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prisons.

Why, then, do Americans confuse education with just such a system? What exactly is the purpose of our public schools?"

The above excerpt is from an article written by John Taylor Gatto (an award-winning, 30-year-veteran teacher of New York schools) that was published in the September 2003 issue of Harper's Magazine. The article was one of many that resulted from the public awakening to the problems inherent in public schooling as revealed in Gatto's bombshell book, The Underground History of American Education.

Every person in America who has ever gone to a public school, or enrolled their children in public school, or paid taxes to support public schools should read this book. Gatto has made it easy by making the entire book available to read for FREE online.

Help Fund The Film - Get Your Name in the Credits!

Once you've read and discussed the book, you will see how important it is to donate to the production of a new Documentary Film Series based on the book. It promises to be a hard-hitting and compelling exploration of American compulsory schooling that asks:

• What's Wrong With Our Schools? -- It will examine the troubling anomalies of our current system.
• How Did It Get That Way? -- It will penetrate the untold history of our schools
• What Can We Do? -- It will survey the many extraordinary alternatives available to students, parents and teachers.

Please, help us make this film a reality. Learn more about it by visiting: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/fourthpurpose/gatto.htm.

Donate Right Now and your name will be included in the closing credits of the film. Hurry! Don't delay! Be a part of making a dynamic film that will change American education for the better!