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I was not a!lowed to carry over and i was with a different board.
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Funds aren't supposed to be returned to the families. That is not how it works in AB. If the homeschooling family does not use their portion of the funding it stays with the board. The boards receive 50% and the families receive 50%. The 50% the board gets pays for salaries, programs etc. AB education claimed that funding was used to pay for a funeral. This is not true. Wisdom has a fund set up for widows and orphans that is funded from other sources that helps families. That fund paid for the funeral.
It is not so much an attack against Christian homeschoolers but against homeschooling in general. Not all families registered with Wisdom are Christian.
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They are receiving about 10% of their funding. They are going to court again in January to try and get another injunction to receive all of their funding. It is my understanding that only a couple hundred students are registered elsewhere with the majority choosing to remain with Wisdom.
I have a friend IRL who has dealt with the education minister on a completely different matter and has come to the conclusion that the man cannot be trusted based on the manner in which he behaved in the particular situation that my friend was involved with.
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Had a GP whose name was Dr. Honnibal. Reminded me of Hannibal.
Another GP, Dr. Lazarus.
My mom dated a guy by the name of Harry Dick. My BIL went to school with a girl whose name was Rhoda Dyck (pronounced dick). My step dads fathers name was Arch Way. My brother always joked that if he had a girl he would call he Anita Beaton. He didn't thankfully. I knew a guy called Donald McDonald.
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Not that this would help you, but i have always eaten dulse. Didn't even know you could get iodine supplements.
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The opposite? You mean they have their facilitator witness intoxicated parents verbally abusing their children and a child begging for help and they immediately report it? Oh, good. I'm glad to know that employees (probably mandated reporters) who are willing to turn a blind eye in order to make sure that an abusive parent can continue homeschooling are rare.
I think you know what i mean. No need to be be snarky. Her experience probably was not the norm. And I could post links of people who had great experiences with Wisdom. One persons negative experience does not mean the allegations against Wisdom are true.
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But it's not like our DLs (which are equivalent to school & not homeschooling at all). This student wrote about her experience:
And then there are students who have the opposite experience.
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When i lived in AB I had to meet with a facilitator twice a year I believe. Not sure how many students a facilitator had. Facilitators also had to have a teachers degree. The amount of funding depended how you registered. The more fully aligned you wanted to be with the school system, the more money you received. I had my passes paid for at WEM. It was for socialization. We could get reimbursed for all kinds of things. Technically the boards were to ask for non consumables back, but I think most boards did not as it would be too much stuff to store. I started to do AO quite early and my funding bought a lot of my books in the early years. Also all my manipulatives. I was with THEE, not sure if they are still around.
Years ago when Dallas Miller headed up HSLDA, he was warning homeschoolers in the province then not to take the money as the government was closely watching and felt that was the door that would be used to undermine homeschooling freedoms. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
I really hope what is going on with Wisdom isn't true.
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It effects about 3500 students, and the RCMP will be investigating. The financials of the minuscule parent school ("Trinity") and their sizeable homeschooling arm are pretty incriminating at first glance.
Other school boards (wherever the students switch to) will recieve the per-student funds that would have gone to "Wisdom" so there shouldn't be too rocky of a transition for anyone. Many other boards have already released welcome and 'how to join us' statements.
Of course HSLDA is overblowing the slight possibility that the charges are false, and it's really "persecution"... a fairly predictable fear mongering response on their part. It's unlikely that the government of Alberta would "persecute" one of the approximately two dozen 'Christian' boards among about 40 total homeschooling boards (rough estimates).
The government regulations/input in question are about fraud and proper use of funds by the school board: not about homeschooling itself.
Note to HSLDA: you don't increase our credibility by unconditionally defending the shadiest characters among us. If there is evidence if wrong doing, it should be investigated.
Wisdom feels that they have done everything above board and have nothing to hide and have the prof to back that up. We shall see.
When I lived in AB, I only heard of good things of that board. Most unschoolers would register there because they were the most hands off.
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In one of the FB homeschooling groups I'm in, someone from that area said it's because the families in charge have been mismanaging funds and have pocketed something like two million dollars over the last couple of years. I can't tell you how accurate that is, but it does sound like there's more to it than the evil government oppressing homeschoolers or whatever.
2.3 million dollars paid out in salaries for 15 people from the two families. Some of those people were teachers, superintendents, and support staff.
The NDP government appears to have an ax to grind with Christian educators, homeschooling or otherwise.
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It's all over my Facebook. Got an email from HSLDA today about it. The board is Wisdom. I have known lots of homeschoolers who have registered with them. Wisdom has a statement on its website.
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I was at a potluck reception. It was quite lovely. The couple rented the hall that had kitchen facilities(they also got married in the hall). Mother of the groom coordinated it all. She had some ladies from church help organize the food and cleanup. Only local people brought food. There were about a hundred guests. The food was excellent. At the end of the night a lot of family and friends helped clean up. The couple was married in a small northern community and with everyone pitching in to help it was really nice.
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His parents need to get over the the fact their original plan is no longer valid nor do they get to have any input on what the new plan should be. He is going to be a father. Time to man up. He needs to tell his parents how it is going to be. Your daughter and your soon to be sil need to be making the decisions and if they want input they need to initiate that.
DH and I were in a similar situation. Got pregnant early(in our 20's) and not married. My parents were supportive. Dh's parents were used to calling the shots. He should have stood up to them from day one and he didn't and it set the tone for most of marriage until he started standing up to them.
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Didn't read all the replies, but my 4 and 6 year olds sleep in bunk beds with no guard rail. No one has ever fallen out. My older boys, all grown up now, same thing. We just stopped putting them on after a few moves. No ladder either. The just climb up the end and into the top bunk. Or they heave themselves up and over from the side. Every kid jumps off the top bunk as well to get down or just to jump because jumping off high things is fun I guess. lol Nobody has every gotten hurt. YMMV
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I know a woman that used homeopathic remedies on her animals because she couldn't afford vet care at the time. I believe she used them on her rats. Her animals did get better. Don't think animals can experience the placebo affect.
Anyways, you need to do what you know works for your child regardless of what anyone else thinks.
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Never bought it either. Plain old soap and water here.
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Taco Tuesday here, every Tuesday without fail. Although some of the kids are getting tired of tacos but when the children are unwilling to try something new, it has to be the same old, same old.
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Sorry about that. I don't know either of their music at all, just heard the names. My bad. ;) At least I didn't add in Anne Murray.
Hey, don't diss Anne Murray. Lol We are from the same home town.
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I'd say that more about many other bands (e.g., Trooper, The Guess Who, Loverboy, Blue Rodeo, Rush, Nickelback). I only heard of the Tragically Hip because my dh went to Queens when the band was still doing cover songs, and more recently because of their cancer tragedy. Even Crash Test Dummies have more appeal to my kids - they enjoy the Superman song.
Off topic, but DH and I went to Queens too.
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I have only used a couple of her forms. I;m looking for a new schedule but didn't really want to pay the subscription fee to, in the end after looking at everything, only use one form, if I even find what I am looking for. I might have to tweak what I have. I wish you could everything but be unable to download anything unless you pay.
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Any Canadians on here that watched this tonight? Dh and I listened to a little bit of it. He got teary eyed listening to Wheat Kings. It is his favorite song by them.
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Is it worth the subscription fee? I used to use it to print off some templates for schedules. But I think it would be hard to justify the price if I am only going to use a couple of things. Pros or cons?
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Thanks for sharing your experiences.
DD has asked in the past if Santa is real. I've always responded with "Well, what do you think?" and "If he was not, would you want to know?" and she's always maintained that she wouldn't want to know and that she believed he was real. So that's where we've been for a year or two...
Last night, when she wrote the tooth fairy a note, asking questions and hoping for answers (ie. Dear TF, Do you have pets? Do your pets have wings?) and I just got panicked that she was in too deep for me to gracefully end it all, LOL.
I think I may have a plan. Youngest DD will be attending an extracurricular class this fall; I think I will take oldest out for a Big Girl milkshake and chat...and welcome her to the club of Knowing.
I wrote a big long letter to Santa, asking a lot of questions. A whole page full if I remember correctly. My mom answered with don't ask so many questions. Then I realized Santa wasn't real. He would have answered my questions and not replied with a rude comment. I know my grandmother wanted my mom to tell me that Santa wasn't real because she thought I was getting to old. I was probably around 10.
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My friend who was with Wisdom, child graduated last year, carried over a couple of years to get a computer for her child.