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I agree with Bill that some of the book choices are just absurd. Really quite useless in terms of life today. Like Moby Dick. Would be great to say you have read it but...why? So you can discuss it over lunch? Most people haven't read it because it really is boring, long, and tedious. Sometimes the idea of the perfect education is not what the kids will like. Just my 2 cents
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I don't know that my brother's experience is representative of everyone, everywhere. I'm simply saying that he had a harder time becoming a police officer b/c of the fact that he was a white maie, regardless of the rationale behind it. It was his experience, it was the reason given, it simply is.
Wait, he was given that reason??? They can't say that outright without being slapped with a lawsuit for discrimination.
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No, I am sorry that you feel the need to write this. The thought should never have crossed your mind. Some days I would like to wave a wand and make everyone green with black hair and blue eyes. That way there would be no judging by appearances.
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Get Chef Mickeys(Contemporary) and Akurshus(Epcot) for meals if you want princesses and the normal crew. The castle is fun but a total rip-off. Do early mornings and avoid the middle of the day. Close the parks when you can and download their app so that you can see ride times and current Fast pass machine times. Many will be gone by mid-day so you can get them early before you leave for lunch.
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Well we banked for 2. One boy and one girl. Hopefully it will be the biggest waste of money we ever made but I feel like piece of mind is priceless. For me it is about the advances they are making and what is on the horizon. We offered it to a friend who had lymphoma if he was a match.
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On another note-what is Obama care is not what it was intended to be when originally designed. What you see is what is left of it after it has been picked apart and compromised to kingdom come. This is the fault of congress and the fact that they continue to worship the almighty dollar and care little about the public. That was obvious yesterday when they voted. We are backwards. Other countries do it but they don't have huge insurance lobby groups feeding money into political pockets. It can be done and it should be done. The public gets screwed either way.
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I know you are fed up and frustrated, but I am going to be the devil's advocate.
If you are thinking that she might have ADD, then instead of putting her intelligence down, maybe understand that she has huge obstacles in her way when it comes to learning. She very well could be a genius, but the way you are expecting her to learn is not the way she can learn. You yourself said she was an auditory learner...no, not everything in life can be read to her, but with students in public school, there are accommodations made for kids who have issues like her. Maybe it is time you do the same for her and figure out how you can help her learn instead of expecting her to learn how you are teaching.
For instance, you could read the questions to her first so she knows what the "important" parts of the story are. You could give her a different Math program with more hands on. Just because you have tried something before and it worked, it doesn't mean that it will work with this child.
Just my $0.02.
Thank you for that. I guess I should put less stock in reading and more in the academics. She seems to do well with TT for her math so I guess that works. I tried MUS and that threw her for a loop. She also does well with writing assignments because she goes to a class and there is lecture. I will stick to reading WITH her and discussion.
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I don't understand Crossfit. Lifting huge weights and swinging stuff around? It's the latest fad in exercise around here and to me it just seems to needlessly extreme.
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Almonds are fine for my nut allergy kids. If she were going to react then it would have caused a rash on her skin.
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Did she read it herself or was it read out loud? Does she have any vision problems or ever been checked for them? I was getting discouraged with youngest when she would read alone for the same reasons. Turns out she had vision issues. When reading aloud, she could remember everything.
We had her vision checked but I think she is an auditory learner. Unfortunately not everything in life can be found on audio or read to her
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I've been there. Do you know if she has the ability to visualize the story in her head as she reads?
Hmmm...not sure. She remembered that he was hunting and that it took place in the country. I really have trouble trusting her since she has lied in the past about completing stuff.
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Read the first 2 chapters of Sign of the Beaver......
can she answer even 1 question I ask? No.
Not where the rest of the family was, not how long the father thought he would be gone, not why the father asked him to mark the passage of time.
I am DONE. I know she is not the brightest kid(maybe a bit ADD and has always struggled with academics) and for sure will not go far into higher education that requires in depth math and science. I am not expecting the world but I am expecting the basics of effort. What in the world do I do with this kid?
She tells me that she doesn't like the book. I told her this wasn't a democracy and sometimes she would have to read a book that wasn't her first choice because I want her to.
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Oh God!!! :wacko: Where's the barfing icon?? That part of the thread made me super queasy.
No joke
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:lol: :smilielol5: :willy_nilly: :tongue_smilie:
glad that's all it was!!!
No kidding. With the heat over the circ thread I was afraid something else had exploded and word smegma was involved :leaving:
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I'd smile, decline the offer, and tell her that sitting through history passively is not learning. By 8th grade she should be using those lovely argument skills to debate the different positions and do multi-source research to create pieces that show understanding and significance of different events.
Sorry, but no dice. It wouldn't fly here. Maybe in 5th, but certainly not 8th.
I need to supplement this desire because she is not an active learner and this is the first time she has voiced an opinion about what she wants to do. I am wondering if pulling pieces from trisms to align with Kingfisher would work?
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read through the red book(kingfisher ency.) and take notes and perhaps write a paragraph here and there, what would you say? I had her lined up to do History Makers so I am on board with a year of history overview but now I have Trisms looking me in the face from the bookshelf!
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Increases in rates and not hiring full-time employees is a direct result of greed and nothing else. There is no excuse for large companies to pull that crap. The insurance companies will use any excuse to pad their pockets. We have paid less due to well care being co-pay free. We got a refund last year from the company as well. Oddly if we had true universal healthcare we wouldn't need this conversation. Ironic, right?
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What about time4learning? That would be fun and cover lots for those ages.
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This was my experience also. My school had a junior prom and a senior ball. I skipped the senior ball because it was the same day as the state track meet. Dinner was normally included at the venue, which was actually the same place my aunt had her wedding reception.
This was a little more than a decade ago. I spent $100 on a dress, and my grandmother altered it for me. That was a lot less than most of my classmates. Maybe $20 on shoes? I had a hair appointment the day of, and my aunt took me out a couple days earlier to get my nails done. Combined that was about $100. Limo was $100 per person, but my family paid for my date also because I had invited him. A couple kids drove their father's classic car or rented a nice car, but nearly everyone went in a limo. Tickets were around $120 or so for both of us, but that did include dinner. I don't remember what we did for a corsage. We went to about a dozen homes meeting people to take pictures, and bought pictures at the prom also. There were activities at the school after that.
In contrast, I wore clothes I already owned for my wedding, we had a civil ceremony with a couple people there, and we might have stopped for McDonalds on the drive home before my husband had to go to work. The cost was a fraction of my prom.
Yes, the whole thing is a waste of money. There are lots of other things people waste money on too. If you choose to waste money on this, it doesn't guarantee that you'll spend the rest of your life burning money. No one ever died because they didn't get the perfect prom either though.
Ha! I wore a dress from a place that was closing and nabbed a $800 dress for $99! Had the train cut up and created a christening gown for my girls so I got double duty out of it.
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Here is another thing. What was your own experience with Prom? I grew up on Long Island. First they were NEVER held at the school like they are here. Second, everyone had a limo. Sounds odd but they just did. I guess based on my own past I assumed all of these things for my kids. Having said that, I don't get the allure of "prom" in general. It is one of the biggest reasons I get against homeschooling HS. "But what Prom???????" Here they take it to the highest degree with a 6 hour afterprom party where there are moonbounces, games like a money booth, and they give away a new car to one senior who is there all night in the final drawing. It really is an insane amount of work but they want the kids there and not out drinking.
I also wanted to say that last night as they were on the way back they witnessed a terrible accident where a car flipped the median and rolled several times. I hate to think that could have been my kid driving right next to that or IN that situation last night. Ugh
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Gee I don't know! My son just left for prom and he paid for the tickets, the limo, corsage, and will pay for dinner as well. I don't mind the limo cost as I insist they not be driving around on prom night. Your prices look in line with ours but his tickets were only $70.
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Dance practice for 1, soccer game for another, second oldest reffed a soccer game, grocery shopping, and just got the oldest off in the limo to prom with his friends. Ready for a drink.
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Duck dynasty is the only "reality" show I watch and I comment throughout the entire thing that I hope it's not real that Willie is willing to endure all that crap from Jace bc I don't know that there's enough money in anything for me to do it. We really like Phil and Kay though.
I watch a lot of stupid stuff. Just like I read some stupid stuff sometimes. To me, watching vampire diaries at 2 am while nursing is no different than reading Twilight. It's not like I'm doing it thinking I'm gaining some deep insight into the human condition or a complicated spiritual enlightenment. It's fluff fun and laughs. *shrugs*
I seem to be on a fairy tale/Armageddon streak.
Grimm (tho the current stupidity over his girlfriend is so annoying I'm about ready to be done. If he wants to be with her, then hop to already. )
Once upon a time
Walking dead (seriously?! I have no idea how people too stupid to not shoot the governor have made it so far. Ridiculously unbelievable. )
True Blood. The books were nothing like the tv show which sadly requires lots of fast forwarding.
Vampire diaries which I bet doesn't make another season bc the characters are just going round the drain.
The middle
Raising hope
Go on
Spy
Falling skies
Revolution
It's tv. Not Plato's Republic. *shrug*
Grimm-totally agree
Walking Dead-yes PLEASE SHOOT the governor
True Blood-ick
Vampire Diaries-yes, so lame and needs to go
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I love Dance Moms and I don't have a dancer daughter. She got the idea to homeschool from that dancer from California's mom. Sophia. She's homeschooled and spends a large part of her day dancing since she can get done with school in the morning and have all afternoon to dance. I haven't watched the specific episode yet (I'm on vacation in Ireland... but it's recorded on my DVR waiting for me when I get home next week!). Was it Melissa? When Sophia's mom said Sophia was homeschooled all the others were like "that's so dumb" but Melissa was like "hmmm... sounds interesting..." and later defended the idea of homeschooling to the other moms when one of them (Christy I think) brought it up again as such a terrible thing. Because, you know, homeschooling is so terrible, but exploiting your daughter's talents is perfectly fine and normal.
BTW, my cousin's sister lives in Pittsburgh and has dancer daughters (who are pretty much grown now) and she knows Abbey and is well aware of Abbey reputation (her daughters danced at a different studio). She said some of the stuff that goes on on the show is totally edited and blown up for the screen (as is all "reality" TV), but not all of it.
Our studio owner judged a comp they did and the behind the scenes was exactly like the show. She was appalled at the way the kids are spoken to off camera and the fighting among the moms. Girls crying, fingers pointing......it was bad.
Anyway, what is Ancient aliens? I just got hooked on Storm Chasers and watched the whole 3 seasons in a week. :huh:
Reasons to NOT follow AO or a CM education?
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Yes. With kale on the hook