@Terabith Sounds like the murder was at a Colony House up the road a bit in Staunton area. it's a different place with same name https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2019/03/13/trial-waynesboro-man-charged-manslaughter-underway/3153194002/

While i was typing I see Terabith answered that she didn't know, this may be weird. Here's a wild guess. Because it was built in the 50s and didn't change much, and everyone knew where it was. (so it's a landmark. like, get on the paved road, go down Franklin Road over thar in SW, to that motor lodge place and it's just a stones throw from yonder.) that kind of landmark that locals would know and tourists would see the thing when they got there. and now the Bergland family owns it I think (or did they sell yet). You know the car dealership that owns the Civic Center so that's business history. But as far as I know it's not the site of anything "on this day in history" or "andrew lewis lived here" kind of thing . It's part of Roanoke City. and as far as I know it's closed now. now I wait for the real reason. I didn't see anything on the booking site to give a hint. but I did find this on Roanoke Times from March 27,2018: "Colony House opened in 1957 at 3560 Franklin Road Southwest, when the street was one of Roanoke’s main drags. Roanoker Richard Trent built the motel with help from his childhood friend, Roanoke real estate developer and philanthropist Horace Fralin. The Trent family owned the business up until it sold it this month. Attempts to reach Richard Trent’s son, Mac Trent, who lives in the Atlanta area, were unsuccessful. Richard Trent died in 1982. After that, local hotelier and former Virginia state senator Granger MacFarlane leased and operated the motel for about 25 years, until 2013." well that says it right there, doesn't it Terabith. I mean if Granger MacFarlane was involved in the business, it's history. and it survived the flood of '85. oooh.. time to research about a murder or crime there. ooooh....

I haven't tried this yet, but hoping someone might like the one from Cooking with Grace. She made a version of pierogis as a shout out to Pierogi from scammerpayback channel. funny back story on that shout out. But anyway here's the link to the recipe and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7lR6tEUkg

It doesn't even have to be $500. If you use the vouchers from ModernStates.org you can do clep exams for free. do their little review courses and get voucher for the exam fee. When my middle dd did CLEP with modernstates, the test center fee was reimbursed. Not sure if that's still the case. worth asking modernstates that. I'm not saying that only doing the modernstates is enough for a credit. I'm saying, nice review at end of course work and way to get a voucher for the exam https://modernstates.org/ agreeing with others. CLEP can be helpful depending on the school and major. If someone is in TN and homeschooling, scoring 55 on any CLEP exam is one of the eligibility options for the GAMS state grant supplement to the HOPE scholarship (there's more to GAMS eligibility but that's not my point.....) My middle dd was not STEM route. She used CLEP as major part of her credits and worked in her degree. Has to be done strategically of course. In our cover school, if student took CLEP exam after doing course work, and passed with 50 then the course could be listed as honors. My oldest offspring was the triple STEM major. They used CLEP for 'honors listing" approval and at least one Gen Ed requirement and that did save us summer school tuition. They were determined to do triple major in 4 academic years so summer school was part of the plan. I wish I had used DSST exam for one of her other Gen Ed courses that was done in summer. And there were times in her 4 years that we looked back and realized that more CLEP would not have helped with getting done sooner and maybe not even DE unless that had been done at the university where finally enrolled.

I don't contribute a lot on forum. But I have several children with autism and such. everyone is in their 20s these days. From my experience raising my own offspring with autism and language disorders.... Hearing "not true friends" is not the same as "they do not like you and they want to hurt you". Your son may need to hear it that directly like EKS said. He seems to need those foundational aha moments before hearing the conclusion about "not true friends". And he may need to hear directly "they are regarded as bad kids do not interact". not true friends is a little abstract as starting point and I think he may need to hear it a different way to understand. I think the principal's offer to show slides and teach him one on one is a first step to work on the problem instead of jumping to harsher methods of expelling. Expelling is such an abstract way to start with teaching how serious gesturing and guns can be for someone who may not yet know that what he read in a book for ELA was the bad and wrong thing to do. And our autism kids often struggle with abstract as the first way to learn stuff. I'd recommend you give the principal's suggestion a try and use the Visual cue (the slides) as first step toward teaching the seriousness nature of all this. Sometimes those visual lessons stick longer with our spectrum kiddos. And if it's given one on one by the principal, he may feel that it is serious in nature to be sent to the principal's office. Then the consequences and lessons go up from there. Also, keep records of these incidents. When the time comes for your son to apply for help to get a job or to get things like government benefits for disabilities, having a record of ongoing behavioral and decision making will be needed. He may very well need job coaches at work and having specific incidents to share when you apply might be helpful . Or at least where I live, that's the case. Here's a relevant party of my story as an assistant coach in special ed world. In a special needs sports group that I'm part of, we had to deal with one athlete who made finger gun toward other athletes while also using racial slur toward them. Pretty serious, right? yes. Director expelled the one who made the finger move and words for some time (after we returned in person during pandemic) in order to teach him a lesson about how serious it was and how the organization doesn't tolerate violence and racism, blah blah blah. Turns out the athlete, really did not understand that saying that word and pointing his finger while quoting music lyrics was not how to greet new friends. He had heard the music and was trying it out in socially inappropriate places but had no idea that it was as wrong as getting kicked out. When he returned, other parents helped him and his mom to practice saying better things and trying again. My point on that is that sometimes you have to take foundational steps before harshest punishments so the lessons stick. The director's decision to kick him out didn't teach him much because of the timing of the pandemic played in it. not going places was part of pandemic lessons and not about what he had personally done. But when the other parents and coaches talked with him very directly "stop doing that". and gave cultural based reasoning, then he changed behavior. another thing to check in your community: are there groups such as Best Buddies around? Or religious groups that have youth meetings for special needs community? Sometimes social things like that can help with friends. Helpful for my homeschooled youngest with autism and ID.

bummer! that's frustrating to deal with troubleshooting and cleaning the machine. ugh. Similar thing happened this week to my mom's very old machine. She's been saying for almost two years she needs to replace it. oh well. Her highlight is that "at least black Friday sales, right?" and of course, I think she's sorta looking forward to her and my brother and SIL "going pearl diving" as an after dinner activity for the family. (I'd help but I'm in another city this year.) anyone else's family use that expression to mean washing dishes by hand? or is that just one of those odd things my mom and dad said to us?

ugh!!!! educational shout out to Pieorgi over at ScammerPaypack on youtube.

I had mine one month ago. fun fun, right? mine was the robotic and it was same day surgery. kick 'em out as fast as possible even if throwing up on the way out the front door. motion sickness from how fast that nurse was moving my wheelchair. It's funny now. eye roll at the time, but funny now. had dh stay home for day after. Had friends "on call" if I needed help after that. took miralax as others have indicated that need, they didn't tell me about gas x, that might have been nice too. But don't remember it being a problem. I know my belly was big from the surgery gas, but wasn't painful to deal with and went down. didn't know about a band so didn't get that. friends asked me if I got that band thing, but I didn't know about it and no one offered. to get ready...biggest things for me were Drivers to help get household members around, and planned simple meals for first week. both of those were things that were easy to ask for help from those who said "if there's anything...." slept a lot that first week. liked my naps. no lifting over 10 pounds so I had to let others get the milk from the fridge since that was 8 pounds. and not use the cast iron skillet. meh. plenty of binge watching and naps. minimal chores, but then again some of my adult age children still live here and I could say "do this" and the youngest who has autism was ready to be grown up and cook and clean for me. I slowly added back myself into chores after 10 days. had a very easy recovery. no complications (except a skin sensitivity to the adhesive on bandage and just not liking the feel of the surgery staples). and I wasn't dealing with homeschooling anymore. They could have watched videos and done worksheets if we were still schooling. One odd thing was my after surgery instructions has conflicting information about when to resume driving. Ask your doctor what's right for you.

Pfizer all 4. and all 4 times same thing: a tiny bit of soreness at the injection site the next day.

I have that same procedure in a few weeks and all the same questions. ooh.. maybe I should look online at my local library for templates. There's a section of legal forms.... could drop off the papers before procedure. not a bad idea. I mean in their office policies it says they'll do CPR which is what I want so... just thinking out loud. if I had one, it would be in the system. I wouldn't carry it with me for most time, but doing all that paperwork, sure.. then the hospital would have it. hmmm.. to OP: thanks for the august reminder to get this done. appreciate it

wahoo!!!! awesome!!!! Happy for your family 🙂

sending prayers/thoughts/etc : May he do his best without stress. part of me wants to make a joke to help you laugh. because you know, laughter is good for stuff. but will it work in writing. hmmm. you brought your knitting, so let's all pretend they are "knit picking" with you. ha ha. ha. nope, it didn't work. at least an eye roll, ?? no? anyway, like you said, it's a placement test to make sure. the ps kids took it at end of course. he takes it today. and none of it reflects on you or him, but just about paperwork. sending more supporting thoughts even if I can't write a good joke today.

Where I live, private clinic options exist for ST OT PT etc, as well as option to get through public school. just sharing in case that helps someone on the thread. with my youngest we had to do private route because the school system here is lacking. But I know that varies widely by location and economic factors of course.

I’ll help get some conversation started. Context: all of mine are out of school age these days. So I’m looking back and remembering. Long ago I used MFW RTR. Never used SL to compare, but I can share how RTR went for me two times. First time, oldest was 4th grade. (Back then the MFW sequence didn’t have the Adventures program so we started with ECC in grade 2. this was long ago. wow. feeling my age today) Yes, some of it was dull for her since she wasn’t all that interested in Roman times. I learned to use the textbook Streams of Civilization as a tool for me to to teach from instead of read from. It isn’t really read aloud style of text for this age group in my opinion but a nice tool for me to teach from. And she would do some notebook writing from it to summarize. I was meh about Augustus Caesar World as well. I did better with it the second time I taught RTR. Not really sure anymore why that was. Been a long time. We liked RTR after we were done in Rome. That year middle gal was in MFW’s first grade program as her main stuff and anything from RTR that she did was tag along and listen, and enjoy the science and music etc. The program hasn’t really changed much since then from looking at their website of what is in the program. But for the younger siblings, they may not get as much out of some of the history and end up getting more out of the book basket list to enjoy. Oh, with MFW and books, they have a long list of “book basket” stuff in the teacher manual that you can check out as many or as few of those from library (or buy if you want). That was always a favorite part over the years to get library books like that. And if library didn’t have a suggested title, I never worried about it. Got what was available. that's part of the program that makes it all individual and more than the package contents seem to be. Second time I did RTR, middle gal was grade 6, and youngest was in other things due to special needs, but still liked the music and science stuff. Again, I used Streams as teaching tool. I must have gotten better with Augustus Caesar World as read aloud. I’m one of the oddballs in homeschooling who used same publisher for many years and liked what I used. But even with being a “fan” of it, I just wanted to get out of Rome sooner than the semester. From both of those times, even when younger siblings weren’t getting much of anything from the history part of doing school together, they liked doing hands on projects, and science together, and other things. I didn’t worry about the history understanding for them even though I like the idea of history centered programs. You teach it again. Let the younger siblings have their timeline and coloring sheets and help with stuff. And if they pick up a few cool things in history for next time, that’s great. And that’s my opinion no matter if you use MFW or SL or something else.

Where I live, there's call the city animal control for loose dog. No fee. But it's the city shelter. And then there's the Humane Society (as close to no kill as it can get around here). They have cameras so don't do the drop and run thing. (I know up the thread was a joke. but saying.. no) [quote]Now, why the stray intake fee is higher than the owner surrender fee, that part makes no sense. At all. [/quote] I agree with you that the level of charges is odd. But I think the idea is that with owner being charged less it's about bringing some medical info and maybe vet records so it's a little less cost ??? that's a guess. almost like the fee really is 35, but owner gets a discount for knowing something about the pet. ??? and I think their policies with who can waive fees is odd. I agree with your friend that it's a subtle way to encourage you to keep. I'd be concerned it keeps someone from finding their missing pet. So maybe it's encouraging you to find owner? (get the pets chipped, right?)

remember for treadmill and walking to have quality walking shoes. Your feet and knees and maybe even your shins will thank you. Don't know what brand/style to recommend. I go to a running store and they sell Brooks, and Hoka brands among others. I do a lot of exercise walking and splurged for the good supportive shoes just for that need.

agreeing with Loowit. When my middle did AHL, I helped her with writing assignments. I thought of it as sending her to writing tutor/writing center. and for grammar skills she did "Easy Grammar grade 9 ultimate series". only took 5-10 minutes a day extra and was nice to do. I probably didn't count that first essay all that harshly and we worked on it together. She wasn't as ready and that's part of homeschooling is to add what they need. Oh, you know what, I think she was the student I did IEW's Elegant Essay with and did that with her a month before officially starting AHL. kind of summer school/writing camp thing.

because hitting like wasn't enough, I had to share more. (even if I can't type well tonight) I've run into that too with misunderstanding that if you go with local district you get no diploma. I feel the head into wall coming on. LOL I tried to explain that means several things: 1. parent decides the requirements for conferring the High School Diploma (as in name of the "degree" completed. and 2. it just means the school district does not issue the cool little certificate aka "lower case diploma" -- the parent does. But like your experienced, I was told I'm the village idiot. right there with ya in another village. LOL now going back to laughing at reruns of Modern Family. sorry for over posting on thread. all of mine are out of high school these days. I shouldn't even be on the topic anymore. Scout TN: hope it all works out and this weird hiccup gets fixed. Something will work out with showing the colleges your student's strengths.

yep. I've done test administration for people reporting to local district. The district told my friends to look at something like abeka or bju testing and pick someone from the list. I'm approved at both and got picked. mileage will vary of course by district.

in terms of control over the transcript it's more about helping make sure college admissions expectations are met and stuff is legal to the state. Or getting student finished and onto a job (just like a school district might come up with a plan for an at risk student.) With many cover schools in my area, the counselors will sign off for college and scholarship recommendations if asked. They will ask you to draft something to learn more about your student and stuff. anyway, here's my story looking back of why I went cover school route. I moved to TN from a state without cover school as option. That state had no real homeschool oversight. I remember going through the decision to cover school or independent. I went with using cover school..... because..... I preferred reporting to a "private school" instead of the local district mostly for reasons of preferring private education options and not dealing with achievement testing the first year we moved and having youngest with special needs. So for me that first year I felt like it was a smoother transition from no reporting to doing private based. It felt almost no different from no cover school except for a few handfuls of dollars. (not that expensive, but not free). But a few clicks here and there, and I was registered without hassle and able to move from out of state. They left me alone for the most part except for the weird phone call I mentioned about switching record keeping software where I made a clerical error. When They did graduation recordscheckt on oldest when senior year, they made sure she had a tiny bit more British literature in the mix of English 12 or something weird like that. Middle - never a word about hers. Youngest - we had to decide between "special needs" or "general/vocational path diploma" so I was on the phone with them on that. With youngest and her disabilities , I felt more confident having her in "cover school" than just saying we homeschooled her. I don't want to go more into that. Also, I really didn't find in the 11 years of using the cover school I picked that it was "putting up with much". I had that one odd/weird/bad phone call in 11 years. That's not that bad. It's a funny story now. My experience was all online and easy record keeping and let me do what I wanted without dealing with local district which is sadly known for losing things. If I had not moved from other state, I would not have been looking for a cover school. I found one that matched up with my ideas and looking back, I kinda think I like the idea of listing a school and having records kept there. didn't want to deal with public school end of course exams for grade 9 if we reported to local district. oldest was fine in ACT score, middle would have panicked and youngest with disabilities - no no no. wasn't happening. oh, and another benefit of using cover school in TN when living in my specific district was how easy it was to get the attendance paperwork for getting teen driver's permit. I can't imagine having to have dealt with that locally vs just logging in and hitting a button to have it sent. I've heard people around here who it was a pain. Maybe in the suburb districts it's easier? I don't know. I found it smooth to deal with in state scholarships with cover school. Not all cover schools are the same in TN. Where I live there are some that I would never have fit in for mandatory Bible subjects and proof that I was attending church (even though I'm a go every week kind of church person in Christian faith, who was using a "christian curriculum"). That was just wrong to me. Perfect for others. There are a few hiccups with stuff like AP designation and sometimes things change with unusual circumstanced (like with dmmetler's dd and early college, or even one of the long time counselors at that cover school whose children finished bachelors at age 17). and more recently for some people using that cover school's online accredited program has meant an option that wasn't available before. Sure, we gripe and rant online about stuff, but I think for most part listening to stories in local talk, people are happy using the cover schools, and people are happy not using them. Around here, some of my friends who did the local district (the big one not the suburbs) had to "put up with stuff" too. They have their gripes and rants just as much. PS: edit to add: another reason one of my friends did cover school was that she did not have college degree in order to homeschool high school. That law changed to only need a high school diploma from parent. But for some parents they may not have that either and need to use cover school with other restrictions or something. Probably the very rare case, but might exist all the same.

got me curious. I also remember NBA playoffs in June in the 90s little bit of looking up stuff and around 1976 was what I found when the finals started being in June. In late 60s to early 70s, finals were in May. Before that it was more common to end in April. That means of course regular season ending before the playoffs of course. going back to my ice cream now.

this link might be helpful about 8th grade courses taken for high school credit if they give you pushback or you get that one newbie on the phone..... go here and open "early credits" tab https://homelifeacademy.com/academics/high-school/high-school-credits/

likes others have said. Hope they get that figured out with your call. Definitely mention scholarship stuff and all of that. They have ways to fix stuff. Certainly they could find a way to say things like "pending AP exam" or something. The website seems to imply it will be called Honors, and then an [AP] tag added at the end if you are taking it with a school that has approved syllabus. Maybe the heat this week has their brains fried and they're hearing one thing instead of what you're saying. I'd be upset too if they were telling me that. And would definitely find a way to make sure all anticipated AP exams were known to the colleges being applied to. reading 8's experience. that sounds so frustrating that they didn't follow their own policy about "early credit'. sometimes I wonder about newbies that answer phones. shake my head. reminds me of the time I entered something in applecore (when it was new) and some lady in the office called me and hurled accusations at me and told me I was the one who was rude? what? I called back and got someone else who apologized and we fixed it in seconds. I had made an honest mistake and it hit a red flag but the first person who called was all in my face about it. weird experience especially since I knew several of the people in real life and they were within miles of my house. Yes, I made a clerical error. No I wasn't rude or trying to not pay. I made a mistake clerically. no need to call me names. but hey, the person did. oh well. I figure for the limited amount of time I deal with them on phone or email in 11 years I used them, it wasn't a big deal. But everyone has individual points where it changes. just sharing my story.they aren't perfect. nothing is. back on your original options you listed: I'm not sure on the second one. I thought that if you were making your own transcript then you need to fill in paperwork with local district instead of umbrella school. Might not be an issue if you apply out of state, but in state with scholarships, it could be weird. That's the downside I can see "might could" happen, but might not be an issue. feels like set up for something to go wrong. hope it goes well with the call.

Here's link to the wording (for anyone who is interested in details) on how to get the "AP tag" listed with HLA, as dmmetler said can happen within rules "However, HLA does offer an AP tag that can be added to a course under specific situations"..... https://homelifeacademy.com/special-courses/ I wouldn't change cover schools over that. I'd just see if specific situation fits and go with procedure.

In addition to asking directly, you may be able to sleuth some more online. Some municipalities have property records and tax payments online since it's public record, depending on the place, might be able to cross reference by address or owner name. Happy researching