MarylandARCH - Maryland Area Resources for Catholic
Homeschoolers
MarylandARCH is state-wide
advocacy resource for Catholic homeschooling families in and around Maryland, which
includes Catholic homeschooling families in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and
the Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) and the Diocese of Wilmington.
MarylandARCH strives to bring
together information for all Catholic homeschoolers from across the state to
share with each other homeschooling news and events, support groups, resources,
and especially that which pertains to us as Catholic homeschoolers.
MarylandARCH endeavors to be
a resource site for those to turn to when trying to find out about Catholic
homeschooling in Maryland. MarylandARCH in of itself is not a local support
group, it is a resource organization.
MarylandARCH supports
Vocations - including the Vocations of Marriage, Priesthood, Consecrated Life.
This site sometimes includes Vocations events for Youth and Young Adults and Families
from all the Maryland diocese's.
Just as Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew I have been meeting to restore Christian-Catholic unity, Maryland Catholic Homeschoolers also supports restoring the Christian unity amongst our Catholic identity; Roman Catholic and of certain Catholic-Orthodox faiths. We have quite a number of Roman Catholic families and a growing number of Catholic-Orthodox families in our membership. We also accept members of the Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic, Assyrian Church of the East, the Polish National Catholic Church, etc of Catholic faith formations. We do not, however, accept all Orthodox faiths; only of particular Orthodoxy that follows Catholic teachings. Please contact us for additional information.
National Catholic Register - John Clark
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/johnclark/dont-let-coronavirus-form-your-impression-of-homeschooling
... To you parents who have just started homeschooling in this environment: Don’t be too hard on yourself. Homeschooling is not usually this difficult ... But please don’t form your impression of homeschooling based on these past couple of months. Try homeschooling again this Fall when homeschooling goes back to normal, and learn how much fun it can really be ...
A Guide for Families Considering Home Schooling
Our Sunday Visitor - Lisa Hendey
https://www.osvnews.com/2020/07/10/a-guide-for-families-considering-home-schooling
... Discerning home schooling - For many families, the entree into formal distance learning or a concern about the new policies and procedures at both public and private educational institutions has caused them to consider what has become an increasingly popular learning model: home schooling ...
Homeschooling: Why Not?
Women of Grace with Johnnette Benkovic, watch this five part series online!
Guests: Dr. Mary Kay Clark and John Clark of Seton Home Study School
http://www.womenofgrace.com/en-us/media/tv/details.aspx?id=1121
Many parents are dissatisfied with the education their children are receiving. It ranges from the quality of curricula, to the content of curricula, to the agenda undergirding the curricula. What is the solution? Is there an answer? Today’s guests give a resounding “yes” to both questions and they are going to share with us about an alternative that is rapidly becoming a standard to measure by when it comes to superior education for our children.
One of the more common concerns parents, pundits, and secular educators raise regarding homeschooling is how prepared is the homeschooled child to go out and face the world - at university or college and on in to the work place, and the challenges they face away from hearth and home. Does homeschooling truly prepare the child for the real world? I can’t think of two better guests to answer these questions for us than the two who have been with us throughout this series. They have the facts, the stats, and personal experience to give us an accurate appraisal.
Cardinal Burke
stresses parents as primary educators of their children.
In
an interview with Life Site News during a break in the Synod on the family (in
October 2014), Raymond Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura,
stressed the importance of parents as the primary educators of their
children.
The
concept of parents as primary educators is taught by the Church and was given
emphasis by the late St. Pope John Paul II. It is also a founding
principle of Voice of the Family, the coalition of life and family groups
around the world represented in Rome to assist the Synod Fathers in defending
the family.
“The
children who come to life by means of the cooperation of their parents with God
are given to their parents for their education and upbringing,” said Cardinal
Burke. “And it’s actually the parents who choose any kind of outside education
that the children receive.”
In a
position paper on the subject, Voice of the Family says, “Parental rights are
under threat as never before, especially through the imposition of anti-life,
anti-family sex education in schools and through the provision of abortion and
contraception without parental knowledge.”
Having
seen those threats over thirty years ago, St. Pope John Paul II wrote in his
1981 encyclical Familaris
Consortio: “Sex education, which is a basic right and duty of
parents, must always be carried out under their attentive guidance, whether at
home or in educational centres chosen and controlled by them.”
He
added, “In this regard, the Church reaffirms the law of subsidiarity, which the
school is bound to observe when it cooperates in sex education, by entering
into the same spirit that animates the parents.”
Cardinal
Burke’s full remarks regarding parents as primary educators can be read on the Life
Site News site and video: https://www.lifesitenews.com/
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