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  1. Written yesterday evening: So tired. We stayed up to watch our street. We took a walk on Lake Street around 8 and talked to the dozen neighbors guarding our Longfellow Market, the last standing grocery store on Lake Street, small in size. Shopping there this morning for coffee for the hubby felt emotional. We get our coffee beans and grind them right there, the aroma irresistible, though I never drink coffee for my easily stimulated heart. While chatting with the neighbors, five national guard cars/truck came to park right at the market. I was incredulous, "Are you here to guard Longfellow Market? Then we can go home to sleep. Thank you so much!" To Kurt I whispered, "We don't need this many (national) guards to protect Longfellow Market." Well, obviously I was shortsighted and kind of foolish. The guards talked with us and with each other. Meanwhile a car with two people in it drove by, with the woman driver sticking her head out yelling, "Fuck you!" "They are cooking in their heavy uniforms at this temperature." I whispered to Kurt about the guards sympathetically. A few minutes passed. The guards hopped in their vehicles and drove away. Then I realized how mistaken I was. I hope they are doing their job peacefully and effectively. God bless the protesters and the police and the national guards. God protect lives and properties. God change the hearts of anarchists and criminals to stop burning our city. Written last night: I am sitting in my front yard guarding our street till 2 in the morning. Neighbor across the street is sitting in his porch while another one at the corner of the block across the street is also sitting in the front yard. We are pretty inconspicuous; no one can see us unless they come real close. Nearby Brackett Park has its full lighting on, with easy view of any movement. Let's pray this will be an uneventful and boring night. ETA: I later learned that a group of people dressed in black were inside Longfellow Market trying to loot and make trouble. That was why the store called for help and the police and national guards came. But by the time they arrived, the rioters were forced out of the store by the defender team. Thank God! Last night dh slept the first half of the night while I stayed on the lawn close to my front door keeping watch. Then dh got up and joined the defender team for Longfellow Market at 2 am. He can back at 4:30 and reported it was quiet except that the police made arrest of two rioters with weapons and destructive tools in their car by the market. We will continue to guard this last standing small grocery store as needed.
  2. Saturday night saw no new fires. National guards and police were able to disperse protesters and arrested some deep night rioters. However, Sunday night was another story. Thousands and thousands defied curfew and provided cover for rioting and arsening. 4 more grocery stores were burned and destroyed in Northeast Minneapolis. Organized terrorists hiding behind curfew-defying protesters burned down 4 grocery stores in NE Minneapolis. Our city and our country are out of control. That's why the governor says when the daytime peaceful protesters defy curfew order, they provide cover for real criminals to destroy our city. We are seeing the real terrorists stealing cars right in front of our eyes. We are face to face with them walking, driving down our streets. Peaceful protesters need to obey curfew if they want the city not to burn to the ground. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This, fire, is the language of the terrorists.
  3. Yes, we got five cartridges at a time, lasting two months. We are good for now. His pen needles need refill in a month. I hope pharmacies and grocery stores get restored the fastest.
  4. Sorry, I originally posted about curfew of The Twin Cities, but thought maybe people aren't interested, so I deleted it. I live one block from Lake Street for 20 years of my life in the US. I witnessed the transformation from a lifeless dump to a vibrant joy-giving, job-providing beautiful street. Mr. George Floyd's brutal murder has infuriated my city and the whole nation. We demand justice and real change. However, the righteous anger and protests have been hijacked and morphed into rioting, looting, burning. Seeing my Lake Street (and my city) destroyed with no grocery nor pharmacies and struggling with getting insulin for my son, we feel crushed. Dh and I break into crying multiple times a day. We moved to stay with my in-laws for a few days. We finally found insulin at their Walgreen's. The Target they looted and the Walgreen's they burned on Lake Street are my pharmacies. It is extremely sad. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
  5. With the curfew, though still people are out there, our National guards and police force have been able to hold out to stop violence. See my post (#4) down below. ETA: I posted an update on page 2
  6. He plans to go to the U of MN Twin Cities for computer science. Is that competitive enough? It is for him. He did!'t get in the DE program and is attending another college for DE. He applied to the U of MN again for DE. Unfortunately due to the virus, it is pushed back one more month at the end of June to send out their notice. He will apply this November for early application for 2021.
  7. Ds15 needs insulin. I schedule to pick up at Target this week. When I saw it looted and fire burning inside, I immediately thought of transferring his prescription to Walgreen's a few blocks away. Guess what? Walgreen's was burned down now. Is the whole city gonna be on fire?
  8. My neiborhood is a war zone now. Target is totally emptied out. Fire 🔥 inside Target, too. Helicopters flying for hours overhead.
  9. Protesters now have been attacking fire trucks that come. 😓
  10. The protesters destroyed and looted the Target store and Dollar Tree store across the street from the police station. That Target store is where I go to pick up my son's T1D insulin and medical supplies. They also set a tire store on fire.
  11. Why is public school or private school or charter school not blamed for parents' neglecting their children's well being? This is so misleading. The blame is squarely on the parents, not how they school. Period!
  12. The one child policy was changed a couple years ago. Now China encourages two babies per marriage. In fact, some provinces mandate that when people apply for marriage license, they have to pay a "deposit" of thousands of dollars, which will be returned to them when a second child is born. My birth province has this policy for a while now. So the Chinese government firmly controls reproduction rights. People had to pay a huge fine and lose their jobs for having a second child, and now people are fore-fined at time of marriage if they do not have two children down the road.. Absurdity. Stupidity. Utmost tyranny. And by the way, Global Times is a well known CCP propaganda mouthpiece.
  13. 😭😭😭😭😭🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝 I do feel so much grief at the thought of not letting him continue at the school. My heart is very heavy. I LOVE his history teacher who is also his debate team coach that drives them to high schools in nearby cities for debate. He taught one semester world history and will teach AP European history next year, which ds will take. Ds has written excellent response essays that his teacher told us about and I read them and was amazed how well he organized his deep thoughts. His Latin teacher is wonderful and loves ds, I can tell. The English teacher will be the same for next year, too. So the continuation of the same teachers and peers is a huge benefit that is hard to give up. At the private school if he continues there, ds signed up for honors English 10, AP Calculus 1, AP European history, AP chemistry, Latin 3, engineering 1, current health issues, Reading New Testament, and digital photography. I do really like this plan a lot. For homeschool if he does not continues with the private school, he enrolled in advanced composition, honors Precalculus, honors chemistry, and Spanish 3 for online classes. I will plan his US history at home, and he will go to a twice a month co-op US government class. Can you take a look at this and tell me what you think? The brand new private school just built last year is VERY spacious with only 370 students for 9th to 12th grade. It has many tables, chairs, couches in the hall way outside each classroom for group projects or just hanging out. There are many beautiful spaces outside the building for group activities too by Mississippi River. It's THE most beautiful campus I've ever seen and it's less than a mile from my home. I kind of feel that if he continues with this school, he will ride the COVID waves together with his peers, which gives him a more sense of togetherness, as opposed to detachment in homeschool online classes.
  14. Then the locally owned grocery and hardware stores deserve to lose business. I do feel the lockdown fatigue and yesterday when went to Aldi and Target, I saw more people without masks. I think people are becoming tired of being cautious. We are actually going to meet with our small Bible study group for the first time this Thursday. We will bring our own lawn chairs and wear masks and sit in the leader's backyard. There are 9 adults and 6 children ages 9 to 14.
  15. I know there is the concept of "honor" and honesty, but there is also "cheating" or even hire someone to take the ACT if it is taken at home. I know people who would hire someone to write their dc s college application essays even though those dc achieved a thirty four ACT score honestly on their own. They do this to be sure they are competitive against other applicants. So what's in place to prevent cheating when ACT is take at home? Ds just finished his junior year. Luckily he took his ACT last October and scored very high.
  16. I know it could happen via something like Zoom, but it's not the same. And if he can't see his peers except online, and when we pay a huge 5 digit tuition for his private school, it just does not make sense. It would be OK if he were at a free public school. It's possible we may still let him continue with the private school, but it will be just so much below expectation and lack in person peer and teacher interation for the money and sacrifice we put in ☹️☹️☹️
  17. Ds15 homeschooled till he felt so isolated that he went to a private school for this school year for 9th grade. He really enjoyed the peer interaction but then COVID spoiled everything. We are debating if he should go back. He already enrolled for 4 classes online and we paid the the first installment. We would so want the private school to continue to work, but just as EmilyGF said, now there's no benefit -- peer interaction, debate team, theater, and competition. Even though it's a small private school, I don't think it would be normal for at least the fall semester. I don't see how debate can happen that involves multiple high school teams traveling to various campuses to compete. And the tuition being very expensive and now without all the benefit he enjoyed when the school ran normally, we think it's best to homeschool with 4 online classes, one subject at home (US history), and one homeschool co-op class. I grieved and cried last night for the loss of the benefits he so craved and enjoyed for 3/4 of the school year. He is willing to homeschool for 10th grade and hopes to do DE for 11th and 12th grades, though he could really use a slower normal high school learning model instead.
  18. ACT online taken at home? I heard this today. How is cheating prevented then?
  19. https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history I found this free online text book with multiple choice questions and critical thinking questions after each of the 32 chapters. What do you think, Lori? This seems to be a college textbook by Rice University in Texas. I do like the multiple choice and critical thinking questions for evaluation, very convenient. https://www.ushistory.org/us/ I like this one, too, but it doesn't have questions for evaluation. I have decided against Great Courses. Too easy to tune out for the long lectures unless you really love the subject.
  20. https://www.ushistory.org/us/ I spent more time looking at this just now. It is an online text with links to original documents, speeches, and pictures. Looks very easy for reading. 60 chapters, so 2 chapters a week will do. Each chapter has about 6 sections, so if you do 3 sections a day, then 4 days a week can cover 2 chapters. What I like about it is it is all in one place. What is lacking though, is there are no discussion/thinking questions or any exercises at the end. But then maybe you can use a simple supplement to fill that need. No matter what I use, I would like to add the Crash Course videos because they are fun and get the points across in an easy way.
  21. http://www.clovercreekscience.com/ sorry, the class is full. I took the class along with ds for the 1st semester. The teacher was so friendly and didn't mind me joining the class and doing all the math problems. She created a very warm, welcoming sense of community. There were lots of experiments to be done at home and lab reports were solid but not hard to do.
  22. My son did online Clover Creek physics and I can't recommend it highly enough. It requires algebra 1. Ds and I LOVE the teacher and the class. He was an 8th grader then. His classmates were all older. One was a high school senior.
  23. I listened to both PJ and GC. They are very very long. I also checked out Crash Course 47 videos and think my is. Would love these videos. I am drawn towards using CLE 8th grade Changing Frontiers with the crash course videos and some movies and maybe Reading Like a Historian and call it high school American history. Here is an online US history for another idea. https://www.ushistory.org/us/2c.asp CLE Changing Frontiers (I used it for my eldest son a few years ago) https://www.clp.org/store/by_course/80 US History Crash Course 47 videos, 12-15 minutes each Reading Like a Historian https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons?f[0]=topic%3A8#main-content%23main-content
  24. Lori, the crash course videos are GREAT! I will use these to supplement whatever I use. I am kind of interested in Great Course Turning Points in American History because it's only 48 lectures, much shorter than the full American history course.
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