Alaska’s longest running homeschool organization is holding its 39th annual conference next month in Anchorage. The Alaska Private and Home Educators Association (APHEA) event will include talks and activities for the whole family through workshops, keynote sessions, silent auction and an extensive exhibitor hall.
National and local speakers will be there to encourage and equip independent homeschoolers of all ages on their journey. Click here to see the complete schedule.
Keynote speaker Israel Wayne, Director of Family Renewal, is a sought-after conference speaker and author, who inspires people to think and live biblically” in all areas of life. Featured speaker Erin Lynum is a Master Naturalist and host of the Nat Theo Podcast, revealing the creativity of God through nature.
APHEA’s goal is to foster community and growth for Alaskan homeschoolers operating through a Christian worldview. The organization supports governmental “non-interference” in home education, promoting the independence and ability of homeschooling parents to make decisions for their own families, free from government control, oversight or involvement.
For registration, vendor attendees, and sponsors visit our website at aphea.org. Pastors, grandparents, and widows are welcome to attend at no cost. The conference will be held on April 11th-12th at Muldoon Community Assembly in Anchorage. For more information, email apheainbox@gmail.com.
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Stay with it.
One of the concerns about publicly funded private homeschooling and charters is that the money will support religious indoctrination. This conference confirms that
APHEA is a non profit organization led by volunteers. They’re not funded by state correspondence schools or charters. They’re just out to encourage Christian homeschool families.
I don’t doubt your assessment Felicity, but APHEA seems to be the organizer of the event and they’ve invited christian speakers from other entities. Ten bucks says that somewhere during the event there will be discussion of the state education budget and that’s where my concern will arise. Religion already gets tax breaks, that’s more than enough.
A little psychological projection there….like the entire public school system hasn’t been indoctrinating leftist darkness for decades.
I know that it can be tempting, but, It’s usually more productive to simply ignore Lil’ Manny… He tells me that he gets his information, and degrees, by watching, and reading the “lamestream” Media.
True Elizabeth. if you believe that thermometers or volleyball or grammar or trigonometry are part of a leftist dark indoctrination, by all means, remove your children.
ALL education is religious in nature. Parents alone have the right to determine which worldview (religion) to impart to their children.
Tundra: not so, unless you can prove that physics and calculus and chemistry are not pure science and somehow have embedded in them a belief in the supernatural.
Our family’s PFDs have been funding private parochial school education for over a decade now. Our school’s results in statewide and national aptitude test scores for science and mathematics (and every other tested subject for that matter) are at least twice those of the students “educated” in this state’s secular public schools (and for less than 1/3 the public school per student cost to boot). But how can this be? You have so consistently stated over and over and over again about how a religion-based education does not (or cannot or will not) teach physical science subjects or mathematics subjects (and others), and yet religion-based schools prove out time and time and time again how much markedly better they are at educating kids in these subjects than their secular public “education” institutions, and prove that your false dichotomy is merely that: a false dichotomy. I find it interesting how much you squawk about logic and yet fail to implement even the most basic logic in your failed arguments. Put in more simple terms, you’re wrong.
As opposed to atheist, humanist, and secularist indoctrination.
APHEA is an organization of independent homeschoolers who do not take government money. They are not part of the charter school system.
Tundra: not so, unless you can prove that physics and calculus and chemistry are not pure science and somehow have embedded in them a belief in the supernatural.
Mullins, I hate to disagree but I must. Chemistry, calculus, and physics share one thing in common, that is, they appeal to the idea that the universe is comprehensible and rational. The public school system promotes this precept in its espousal of the intelligibility of nature. Underlaying this claim is the canon of absolute truth, namely that there are right and wrong answers to questions asked of nature (2+2=4 and not any other number). It is on this basis (the suggestion that absolute truth exists) that we see all of the nastiness of the world laid bare, it is from this principle that religious wars are waged, lgbtqia+ youth are disinherited of their identity, and all of human conflict derives its basis. That is why my children will never attend a school that teaches or implies that absolute truth exists. It is a nasty western lie and I, for one, will have none of it. Keep your ideological fantasies out of my schools. Education in toleration and the subjectivity of all truth claims is the only basis for a truly accepting society.
Mills According to your last line, the only objective truth is accepting the subjectivity of truth? Fun. We got to Mars using absolute truths. Your claim is a great thought experiment, but it will keep you spinning in circles
You’re saying you don’t believe in absolute truth?
Mullins, it seems you have been brainwashed by the philosophy of our white western regime. Forcing ideas into binary categories creates artificial conflict by suggesting a strict dichotomy of right and wrong, true and false where there isn’t one. There is more than one way to skin a cat. That is why diversity is our strength — and not mere conformity and submission to the precepts of the regime. “Logic” in its current form is not a neutral tool, but is shaped by power structures that determine what counts as “rational” or “true”. Notice how it was a white conservative man who made it to Mars using these “absolute truths”, “truths” that seem to hold a system of oppression in place. Freedom and openness are found in subjectivism.
Would love to see our great, freedom loving Governor or one of his representatives (say Todd Smoldon?) speak at this conference. Thry have done so much to promote parental freedom.
Your trying hard to sound like me???? Not working little troll!You will never be the MAN DAVE MAXWELL IS!
It is YOU who are the fake and have been for years. I SUPPORT Dunleavy. You have painted me as a fool who doesn’t.
I wish they would host this somewhere other than muldoon. Any options in the future for other locations?
Do you have ideas or preferences for other locations?
smolden getting desperate
Yes Wendi! Thanks for asking. It would be wonderful to have an option in Mat Su, Eagle River and/or Soldotna/Kenai specifically. Muldoon is not a place I desire to bring my family when we travel through Anchorage. We have been waiting for 9 years for this event to be held elsewhere to be able to justify our attendance. Maybe your homeschool family hasn’t experienced targeted violence, but ours certainly has. Walking into the lions den of Muldoon (or most places in Anchorage) is not a high priority for us. There are so many other places who would be willing to host this event that offer safer locations and facilities.
It was held in the MatSu valley in 2021 and 2022.
C mills. Sometimes the choice before us IS black and white, right? For example, if I want to walk, I must take a step. If I don’t take a step, I’m not walking. Logic is NOT subjective. Mess with it, invoke mythical deities and it evaporates.
Mullins, I would posit that this argument for the objectivity of logic from the basis of movement could easily be construed as cosmological argument for the existence of “mythical deities”. For instance, if every step has a cause then there must have been a first uncaused cause or ipsum esse (sheer act of being) which beget everything. It seems that absolute logic leads to very uncomfortable truths…
Mills, isn’t this the watchmaker argument?