Farmageddon

As someone who actively aspires to be a small scale farmer and sell at farmers markets someday, this movie has blown my mind. Swat teams serving warrants because people have raw milk? Killing large herds of sheep only to find they were in perfect health 8 years later? Madness...

No more Home School for Hippie Witchlings? Maybe...

Witches Education League

Witches Education League ( WEL) is the offspring of two Pagan groups; Project Witches Protection (PWP) and Witches Education Bureau (WEB). Born in Feb 2011, W.E.L. is a not-for-profit organization with the purpose of educating society about Witches, their craft, and their beliefs. 

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I checked out their website and it's just ads. I hope they get some good content up soon, because I think this could be a great resource for people to get information about paganism in a positive and factual way. Salem is pretty iconic, for better or for worse, and there is a name recognition factor that may actually be helpful in education people. What do you think? Do you wish you had this in your area to help the "locals" understand your beliefs a little better?

Home School Cool

I saw this article today. It is about how families who had been sending their kids to private school and can no longer afford it are deciding to home school rather than send them to public school. Maybe if the 'upper classes' begin to see and show the value of home education it will dissipate some of the stigma about homeschoolers and their families being weird or having something to hide. Homeschooling is not for everyone, but I think a lot of parents never thought of it as an option because of misinformation or lack of information. Unfortunately, trends start at the top and trickle down, and maybe these 'upper class' families embracing home schooling will help to begin mainstreaming it as an educational option.
H.W.