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Oregon Homeschooling: Classical Conversations

Over 20,000 students are homeschooled in Oregon.  One thousand are registered in the High Desert education district.  One of the many benefits of Central Oregon is the opportunities provided to homeschoolers and the community support.   A newer phrase in the homeschool world is “Classical Conversations.”  This is a unique schooling method that is gaining in popularity and prestige.  It was founded by Leigh Bortins and involves students meeting together in local groups and studying subjects holistically.  Information about contacting the Bend chapter is included below.
Leigh Bortins, her husband and four sons reside in North Carolina.  She was am aerospace engineering  graduate of the University of Michigan before beginning to homeschool her children.  An article by Dorothy Sayers inspired her to begin the Classical Conversation style of schooling, and she has spent the last 20 years teaching, promoting, and writing about the method.  Bortins was motivated by Proverbs 25:2, which says “The glory of God is to conceal a matter, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.”  She believes that the main goals of homeschool parents is to give their children the tools to search out the hidden things of God. 
Essential to the Classical method is meeting together with ... more

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