phathui5
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Nope. They'll go to government run public schools over my dead body, and dh's, and our godparents who would homeschool them.
I would consider private school if they really wanted to go and made a good argument for it and I could see that it was something they needed.
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How do you feel about milk contaminated with melamine? Watered down milk? Baby formula that has is less nutritious than claimed (pumped up with fillers)? Beef contaminated with fecal matter? Spinach contaminated with fecal matter? Green onions that cause hepatitis? Counterfeit medications (you think they're real, turns out they're not)?
That stuff's already illegal and the laws against them didn't stop them from happening.
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The person not wearing the seat belt should then be responsible for their own expenses and death. It was a choice they made. It would include a radical change in laws, and it won't happen, but it would be a step twoard a glorious return to freedom.
Yup. Like I learned from Spiderman, with great power comes great responsibility. With the power to choose for yourself comes the responsibility to not be stupid.
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It's strikes me as very sad that being seat-belt-free is the sort of "freedom" for which people are willing to die. It further seems that people have lost all sense of what true "freedom" is. I have a hard time swallowing that smashing your head through the windshield is the way to show that you are a person of liberty.
It's not about not wearing a seatbelt. It's about understanding that I'm old enough to do it myself, without the government threatening me if I don't.
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I think they should know how to write a good paragraph.
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Maybe because they know that adults can figure it out for themselves.
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It sounds like she's what Howard Gardner calls a bodily-kinesthetic learner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences
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Field trips definitely count as school days.
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Truth be told, I love bucking the system (who knew?!) and I actually find homeschooling to be freeing rather than as something that robs me of my freedom.
Me too.
I love not being stuck with the school's schedule, their curriculum, their rules.
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I've never gotten down a good schedule for cleaning stuff. How often do you do things like sweep, mop, vacuum?
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"We're going to keep homeschooling, of course."
"What are you planning for next year? Going to switch schools? Homeschool?"
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I can't compare them to Abeka (which I always thought was boring) or Horizons, but I wanted to say that my 8yo ds uses CLE 3rd grade math and 4th grade language arts and enjoys it (most of the time).
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He's only in first grade. I would give her a break.
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Dh and I enjoyed watching A Knight's Tale last night.
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My kids like:
The Electric Company
Magic School Bus
Harry Potter
Enchanted
Dh and I like:
Just Visiting
Buffy (the TV show on DVD)
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I think this is the one in July I signed up for.
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My 8 year old ds just started CLE Language Arts 401 this week. I think it's very nicely laid out and easy to follow. It's challenging enough for him, which I appreciate.
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Doesn't it cover the core subjects?
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It's like organic beer :) (which we've bought before)
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When I was 14, I babysat a 2 year old while her mom worked from 7pm to 2am.
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What do you need to do to get your homeschooling back on track?
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Yes, I would do it if my children were those ages.
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Therein lies one of the big problems with foodstamps......the "rough patch" for some people goes on for many many many years, or their entire life. THat is not assistance that is a lifestyle.
Kinda like how we pay upwards of $10,000 in taxes for children for 12 years to go to schools that are sometimes ok, but mostly factory style babysitters?
We're not encouraging people to take charge of their children's education by providing an average/mediocre product for free. People would rather take a free ride than take responsibility for their own families.
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the main difference I see is that public education is offered to all children, no matter how much their parents have/don't have
That's true. Personally, I would be happier with medical care being available to all children and education being something you have to apply to get for free. Not having the government food the bill for your kids' schooling won't kill them, but there are lots of kids in the US who are getting less medical care than they need.
If you believe that women shouldn't be pastors. . .
in General Education Discussion Board
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Can you show me where it says that?
The church where I grew up had female pastors and this was my experience as well. My brother made it out of church there without knowing what the first book of the new testament was (his name!).