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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.
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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 !
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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 !
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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.
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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.
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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 !
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1 hour ago, xahm said:
I don't think I can bring myself to attend tomorrow. If she is there I'll just feel too awkward and if there is a perceived power struggle on her part, I dint want to aggravate things. It really stinks because we need to stop by the library tomorrow, so I'll just change the timing.
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 !)
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I am so sorry. :( Cancer is evil and completely sucks.
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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.
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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.
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One local one has "the honey wagon." The guys that own the local septic pumper are known as quite the characters.
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They are large waste management and recycling companies.
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:
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm sorry :(
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That does not equal educational neglect. It is just a different educational approach. I am extremely relaxed. I will not do school at home in any way shape or form. However, I also have very high academic standards. I just have a different view of how those goals should be achieved.
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.
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.:confused: Um...90%??? What area are you in???
I'm in Texas...been homeschooling for about 9-10 years...have been around hundreds of homeschooled kids...I'm going to say I've met 3 families where I don't think the mom is/was working with the kids, because she was overwhelmed and they just kinda let it go- year after year. One of the families put their kids back in public school and I suspect the second family will do that also. The third family ended up using an online high school (I think it was Penn Foster - not something I would do with my kids, but oh well), so I guess, ultimately, it was fine.
Most of the homeschooling families I've met are strict, school-at-home homeschoolers (that seems to be the common variety here in TX). They are constantly fretting that they aren't doing enough and it's almost like a rat race. They are very insecure. A big chunk of the homeschoolers I've met here use either Sonlight or MFW. Those seem to be huge here
Most people here are extremely relaxed. School at home is looked down on and openly criticized.
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Wow, if falling below the 23rd percentile is considered "educatiohal neglect" then there is absolutely no way that my special needs child could ever NOT be "neglected". I would be absolutely THRILLED to see any scores within the "normal" range, which is the 16th percentile. She's got a genetic mutation causing a rare neurological syndrome and while she is making progress along her own developmental trajectory even the best education theoretically possible is not going to get her to that 23rd percentile.
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.
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I think it’s going to get worse. I had an online exchange on a local board. The woman wanted to homeschool and asked how to get started. I suggested hitting the library, reading some books, then once she’d formed a philosophy/style it would be easier to choose curriculum and ask questions. Her response? “That sounds exhausting. Can’t I use your philosophy?†😧 I told her it wasn’t nearly as exhausting as homeschooling. Oh the people who jumped in to assure her that it really was easy. No it’s not! It is for a few years, but if you’re not prepared to increase the workload and think your 8th grader can get by on two hours of school a day you are delusional. You’d have to live in a pretty lackluster school district to keep up with local standards this way.
Don’t get me started on the people who never really prioritize school and only really get around to it more than once or twice a week. Or the people who are “teaching their kids to self educate†and park an 8-year-old in front of a computer to fend for himself. Little kids deserve a teacher. Making the decision to do this then putting ALL of the work and responsibility on an elementary-aged child is ridiculous. I know there are outliers where the child truly learns best this way, but in general it’s lazy, inneffectual, and the kid would learn more in school.
I really don’t see much outright neglect, just a lot of busy, inconsistent moms whose kids would successfully go further in most subjects if they attended local schools. Their estimates for how much time is wasted in school seem artificially high to justify a 90 minute school day for their 10th grader. I don’t doubt there are districts where their kid would be ahead with this pace, but this isn’t one of of them.
ETA: sorry for the long rant. I’m on a long, boring car trip.
I bolded those.
I also think it's likely to get worse unless something comes along and changes that trajectory.
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LOL....That's true but it's funny to me now. When people ask me about homeschooling I want to run the other way! ! I don't want their front-loaded questions, their judgement, their opinions, and I really hate that my kids, praise God are doing well and I resort to showing how great my kids are doing, in defense of our choice. What if they were struggling and I had done mostly everything the same? Or if they were adopted and would struggle no matter what I did? Or whatever....
i HATE talking to people about homeschooling now. When I was a newbie? Oh yea....
Now? Forget it. I would rather pretend I didn't hear them and ask about the weather.
I have been avoiding conversations about homeschooling for years. When I end up in one anyway, I mostly listen and let the water flow on by. My own combination of challenges, necessities and discouragement made them upsetting. I row my own boat and just wave.
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7th grade writing question
in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
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Thank you - that is great to know ?