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  1. I would just stop talking to her at all and plant what you want. If she thinks she has a legal case, she can try to find a lawyer who agrees. When you find yourself in a relationship that has you second guessing yourself and apologizing for stuff that wasn't wrong and walking on eggshells, there is only one way to get out of it - stomp on all the eggs ! Make sure your survey is right, and just do it.
  2. DS2 will be home for math and writing/lit next year, and at PS for science and social studies. Last year he took two writing classes at a weekly co-op, so doing this much writing at home with me will be a new thing with him. I am looking at the Write at Home middle 2 course and also Lightning Lit for 7th. Will both of them be way too much writing ? I really think WaH looks like a good fit for us, but I also want a structured lit course. We are not liberal artsy people who love writing. For us it is a necessary tool and important skill to develop. I don’t want him overwhelmed with writing, but I do want a level of output that is a challenge. He did all his IEW co-op assignments quickly.
  3. IMO it’s fine if you are SUPER open about it ! If we can’t openly love ourselves and others at 50, when can we ? I would say hey I’m excited to be making it to 50 ! And I want to celebrate all the wonderful friends in my life by throwing you all a party ! Please come and let’s have a great time !
  4. My relationship to my dining partner is not anyone’s business. However, they are likely to see that we are related anyway - our faces match !
  5. Unless a job title ends in the word "man", there is no reason to neuter it. There is never a reason to feminize job titles by putting "ss" on the end. Waiter. Host. Headmaster. Conductor. These don't say "man". They say person. I am a woman, as much a person as any man. I am not a special type of human. I don't need what I do to have an ss on the end.
  6. Headmaster. That's the job she is doing. I don't agree with having a different job title over gender. I go out of my way not to use feminine job titles.
  7. IMO homeschool support groups are also for people whose kids are younger but who are planning to homeschool - when you don't send them to preschool and kindergarten, they can lose connections with kids they were in playgroups with but who are no longer available, and you may want to make new connections with people who are in the same boat. In any case, it's over halfway through April. Many school years are over within a month. A graduating K child is old enough !
  8. Honestly, I think you should show up with BELLS on, and be shiny about it ! Your K is close enough !!!! If this woman can't grasp that, IMO she shouldn't be homeschooling (boom !)
  9. I am so sorry. :( Cancer is evil and completely sucks.
  10. What has worked for our dysgraphic son is ALEKS, and using a white board with wet erase markers (no fumes) for when he needs to work out algebra. For actual arithmetic, he uses a calculator.
  11. I am not against some accountability, but a law requiring access to our home would not be acceptable to me. I also think it’s just a really stupid way to evaluate. Teaching at our house more and more looks like me telling a kid to get online and look for an answer or explanation. I’m teaching them to fish, because my job is to enable them to launch. I’m less and less involved in the instruction part. I get them signed up for courses, and then I’m mostly a time and record keeper now. Occasionally I get to proofread something. My role wouldn’t look like much. I wonder how they would evaluate a parent who was outsourcing distance courses.
  12. They are large waste management and recycling companies. https://www.facebook.com/DowntownStCharlesPartnership/photos/pcb.1806541946063241/1806538442730258/?type=3&theater The caption: Come see the big Advanced Disposal garbage trucks and hear the beautiful pipes and drums of the Dundee Scottish Pipe Band throughout the entire downtown! It's not just that town. Our town does it too, for every parade. We get bulldozers, dump trucks, the paddy wagon or animal control, just everything ... and garbage trucks. :cheers2:
  13. I’m trying to figure out if this is a local thing. I went to or was part of a lot of parades growing up, and I don’t remember garbage trucks, just emergency vehicles. Here we get snow plows, construction vehicles, and garbage trucks also. Is it regional or everywhere?
  14. They aren’t fun but aren’t awful either. Going to a place that is easy to deal with makes a big difference. The hospital I started with always called me back for another image due to density, every year, and then refused to schedule me for screening mammos anymore - only diagnostic - which my doc didn’t agree with, but the hospital was a total PITA so I switched. The new hospital is smaller, closer, faster, more friendly and much easier to deal with and actually uses my images from year to year to look for changes. If you don’t like the first place you go, find a better one. It really helps.
  15. I would tell the principal, superintendent and coach that this violates our family’s ethics, so I hope they are all up for a good run ! If I had access to other team parent emails, or a district or school wide discussion group, I would blast it there too. Other parents may feel the same way. Be bold ! Now I have a real keyboard, and I'm editing to add that I would first have a discussion with the coach about my objections. There should be some understanding and suggestion of an alternative that would satisfy the requirement, and for the coach to get the message that it's not okay to punish players over a parent's decision on this. However, if the coach isn't willing to be flexible, see above.
  16. I have a middle school kid using it for science just to get us through the year since he disengaged from books and I could not find an online course that would work for him. (and I'm in the same situation as Scoutingmom with teen boy syndrome.) He enjoys it, and it covers information, but I don't think it's challenging. They basically watch a video lecture and then immediately take a quiz on the material that was just covered.
  17. I use chicken or beef broth and add things ... fresh ginger, lemongrass, basil, jalapeño and star anise. There are star anise teabags made by Badia that work well. Everything else needs to be fresh.
  18. I would tell them BOTH....THIS is MY place of work. Go out together and enjoy each other. Every day, all day, M-F. Seriously, get out from under my feet, scram ! I’ve got school and housework to do.
  19. I did not ever say that being relaxed was neglect. And I'm extremely well informed about relaxed homeschooling. I've been surrounded by it and hearing about it for 11 years. Relaxed homeschooling can be excellent, as long as it's a fit for the family, and homeschooling is made enough of a priority that reasonable progress is being made, according to the child's abilities. Relaxed is not a fit for our family, but it's perfect for other families.
  20. . Most people here are extremely relaxed. School at home is looked down on and openly criticized.
  21. This is exactly why I've never agreed that specific scores on anything should be a criteria for judging how well a homeschool is functioning. Progress over time would be more fair. I'm afraid of homeschool regulation because I'm afraid it would be based on something that will make parents of kids with LD issues look neglectful.
  22. I bolded those. I also think it's likely to get worse unless something comes along and changes that trajectory.
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