My dishwasher has a name.....DD11 and DS15 lol......we haven't lived in a home with an electric dishwasher in over a decade. There are times I miss it though.

I just wanted to put out a warning for those who want to teach in Korea....my daughter was teaching for a private school in Korea when Covid hits. (this should be said of any school overseas in which you must enter into a contract for teaching and not Korea specifically) Please, please, please investigate the school in which you are considering signing a contract before you do so. Speak with people who no longer work for the school. Do extensive research. A glowing recommendation from a current teacher is not sufficient. My oldest did not do sufficient research but she is an adult and I allowed her to do her own thing and live and learn. Her school was definitely doing some illegal things in regards to business practices with their foreign teachers which made life pretty hard for her. When working overseas as an English teacher it can be very hard to leave that school and move to another one without coming back to the states or moving to another country. My daughter was going to move to Japan to teach in order to remove herself from the situation but Covid struck. At that point she couldn't fly straight from Korea to Japan so she flew home and was going to be here for two weeks. The day after we were allowed out of quarantine after she came home from Korea, Japan closed their borders to travelers from the US so now she is permanently home and has gotten a teaching job at a local PS and is applying for grad school in the states lol.

I guess I am super mean. My kids have been allowed to eat in their bedrooms a total of one time and it was in the past week and it was only two of them because they were on a zoom call with their youth group that was running long. (we have pets and the last thing I need is the animals eating food that is not good for them OR kids being sloppy eaters and inviting pests into my home) The teenager and preteen do all the dishes in the house most days. The 7-year-old will wash his if he has a snack the others aren't having. The 22-year-old cleans dishes as she cooks now that she is home as a result of Covid (she was living and working in South Korea). The 19-year-old acts like I bought her a new car if I wash the grandbaby's bottle when she is over because she is so grateful that I wash a dish for her. Her dishes are always done in her own apartment even if I stop by unannounced. Having the kids always do dishes has been a life skill that has served them well in adulthood. We buy the food, we pay the bills, we cook the meals.....the least they can do is clean up afterwards.

Yea a whole other country whether it is to our detriment or not......I guess we will cross the bridge of needing that transcript when we come to it. At this point I don't know how many if any of those courses we will pull up. It just depends on what we end up covering here at home. Especially as I discover more and more of what he doesn't know that he should have covered in school

I meant he wouldn't take a Dual Enrollment course through a Public School nor would he sign up for the SAT through a public school etc. Sorry I was typing my question while also trying to get children off to do chores and what not and it wasn't worded well.

Most Texas public universities don't use the Common App (at least not as of 2018 when I transferred) I guess that is the difference. They don't ask for all the high schools you went to they only ask what high school you went to. They do ask for all your colleges. (I just went through this as I began college in 2017 and graduated in May) I have no experience with the Common App as I only applied to public colleges in Texas.

Every school he is looking at is just asking for his homeschool transcript. I attended three different high schools and none asked for more than my final high school transcript. Why would they ask for his PS transcript on top of his homeschool transcript? I am just curious especially since he won't test or do DE under a PS header so it won't be like those scores are reporting with a PS tag for anyone to know he went to one in the first place.

So DS15 is coming out of PS. He has completed two years but he will do three more years at home. The grade skip before middle school ended up not being in his best interest and he needs another year to catch up in math and writing and be prepared maturity wise to be on his own. Our goal this year is to really fill in the gaps in his math and writing (using Lial's and IEW for that)and then going to move forward with 11th and 12th grade. How do I create a transcript? Honestly his core grades are decent the past two years (all As and Bs) and his only poor grades from PS are his electives (he failed an art class). I mean do we need to put his PS stuff on the transcript? Pulling his lab sciences in would make my life a bit easier BUT will it look weird that he is doing high school for 5 years? Can someone please talk me through this? If he and I are confident in his math and writing he will take the entrance exam to our local community college and take some DE classes in 18 or so months so I have to figure this out for him.

Saxon itself is secular. The problem comes when you look at Dive into math that uses Saxon (which is often sold alongside the text as if it is by the publisher) which is definitely not secular.

And the reason public school history standards in my state are so bad is that the history textbook standards are not decided by historians, or history educators......and I am actually a historian........it is disheartening. Maybe someday I will have time to write a secular history text for the younger grades that is not whitewashed. I would love something SOTWish that fit the bill but as of now I use SOTW and just bring in tons of outside resources.

We have tons of yard space but my dogs also have tons to bark at with the people walking by........I live in a neighborhood that can be foot traffic heavy because we have a city bus stop one street over both to the south and to the west though

Yep it is a scary situation.

I save my fun colored masks for when I know I will see her instead of the black ones and wear contacts instead of glasses so she sees my eyes. I know it is harder on me than it will ever be on her. I also know as an infant these are things she will never remember but she is my first granddaughter and there are times I want to cry. I remember my mom visiting in the hospital, playing pretend gobble the baby toes, etc., all things that are simply impossible with Jo. Above all else I want to keep her safe and healthy. I am thankful my wife's school is one that is being super cautious in today's climate. They are not scheduled to begin any in person classed until Sept 21.

I have only removed my mask when I have been in my bathroom or bedroom away from Jo. Today I put her in the dining room with my wife so I could use the restroom and wash my face while here momma slept on the couch lol.

To start I live in San Antonio.... Background to my question: I have a month old granddaughter. Her father works in a warehouse job. My wife will be returning to work in a public school. My kids will not be returning to public schools. (they are doing virtual school but I am homeschooling them seeing as everything is asynchronous and I know they will not actually receive an education and we may pull the high schooler and finish his high school through homeschooling....the 6th grader would like to return to her school when it is safe next year the 2nd grader we are not sure where/when/if he will return). I am petitioning my university to take all my grad classes online because I am high risk as it stands 1 of my 3 classes are currently online. My oldest daughter is currently unemployed but is looking for a teaching position. The next oldest daughter is the mom to the granddaughter and is unemployed and is currently feeling the beginnings of PPD. Mom is also immunocompromised due to an autoimmune disorder. I picked her and baby up today. Everyone in the house wore masks including baby's mom. When would you feel safe not wearing a mask when baby and mom came over? I wonder if this baby will ever recognize her Mema without a mask. She is a month old now. Picture of my sweet granddaughter included