A school calendar is built to move a group of students through a shared year. Homeschooling gives families the chance to ask a different question: not “Are we on page 42 by Friday?” but “Does my child understand this well enough to use it?”

An argument from Scripture, about the nature of the child, and the nature of the authority God has actually delegated

That is where the American school lunch began. And it began, in large part, because of a chemist named Ellen Swallow Richards.