Goodbye HSB

I'm closing down my homeschoolblogger blog. I've mostly been posting here all along anyway.

I'm not exactly leaving over the Pearl ruckus, not directly, anyway. I use different methods from theirs, but I support freedom of choice in parenting methods and I know families who have had success using methods different from mine.

I'm more concerned about increasing reports that bloggers posting dissenting views about the Pearls are finding their blogs removed. In a homeschool arena, I would find it justifiable to disallow discussion against homeschooling, but a one-sided limiting of private bloggers posts about parenting seems inappropriate. And my continued presence there might also insinuate that I support something I don't.

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Update:

I received a response from HSB basically stating that their removal of blogs for posting anti-Pearl posts is a rumor and they'd be silly to "police people based on our likes/dislikes. . . If you look around the blogs, you'll see several people who openly criticize the Pearls. Look at our Featured Blogger on the front page. Look at SpunkyHomeschool. Both of these ladies come out against the Pearls' materials but we are friends with them - and have left their blogs in tact."

The email invited me to stay and post whatever I want. So, I'm going to stay. And, no, I'm not going to deliberately write an unsavory post about the Pearls as a test. ;)