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    WWYD?

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    My boys are attending a Hogwarts Day Camp at the UU Church this week. This morning when I was dropping them off, one of the adults smilingly said to me "DS sure does like chemistry doesn't he? Did he bring home any of the experiments he's done to show you?" I answered that he had and she asked which one. I answered that there were a few and I wasn't sure what they were. She then went on taking about how he asked to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and eventually meandered away. I said goodbye to my boys who had been in and out of their rooms and then was turning to leave when I saw the woman with my son that we'd been discussing over in the corner of the hallway. As I got closer, it became apparent that she was discussing the tiny "potion" bottles he'd brought home and that he shouldn't have done that. When she finished and turned around and saw me there, she told me that he was not supposed to take them, but she had not explicitly told the children that. I, of course, apologized and said I'd bring them back when I pick him up.

     

    So, I can't figure out why she asked me about it the way she did. Was she trying to not get him in trouble at home and so she didn't plan on telling me at all that he wasn't supposed to have them, but she thought he'd lie if she asked him? Or did she not trust me to tell the truth if she just said "Hey, did DS bring home any of the potion bottles? Some are missing and we thought maybe some kids took them home." I'm feeling offended about the way it was addressed to me, like she thought I'd lie if she just asked. She seemed all nice about it the whole time, but it just felt off to me. IDK if she was trying to avoid confrontation or just doesn't trust people. Would you say something to her about it or just return the bottles and drop it?

    How much to redo a bathroom? Ballpark?

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    My mom just had her bathroom redone. She had the bathtub/shower taken out and replaced with a walk-in tiled shower and had the vanity and sinks replaced. She also had to have the subfloor replaced around the shower area. She had it done in two days and paid a premium for that. Total cost was $10K.

    Jinger s/o Helping an adult child break away

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    I expect it is the siblings that keeps her there. Just like women stay in intolerable marriages because of the children, I expect that the fear of not being able to protect the younger siblings is a strong tie. While a spouse might have a 50/50 chance or so of a judge not granting custody to an emotionally abusive partner, a sibling has an extremely low chance of escaping the situation with minor siblings. Her only chance to look out for them is to be present.

    Did you use WWE 4?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    We got to week 20-something and DS asked to move on. I had him do the final week and he passed, so we did. He did CAP Fable and Killgallon Sentence Composing and then we did Treasured Conversations. We will pick back up with CAP soon.

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    7 year old wants to learn Greek... Advice needed

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by Kathryn

    At seven, DS did Greek Alphabet Code Cracker to learn letters and sounds. He then moved into Elementary Greek. He was doing it at the same time as First Language Lessons 3 and MCT Island (so for grammar previously, he'd done FLL 1 and 2). He had no problems with grammar. He did year 2 concurrently with FLL4 and MCT Town. He did fine that year, but asked to switch to Latin after that, so we didn't do year 3 last year. I'd definitely recommend the programs we used.

    Careers as a librarian?

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    Posted · Edited by Kathryn

    Not much opportunity with traditional libraries, sadly.

     

    Things are a little better with special libraries, especially when catalogers and archives folks are willing to bridge the digital divide, meeting database administrators and digital forensics folks in the middle.

     

    Cheap digital storage has encouraged a "save everything" mentality, which in turn is presenting many businesses with an "unstructured data problem" as they find themselves with millions of PDFs, emails, videos, and other "business intelligence" but with no real way to categorize them other than plugging them blindly into an off-the-shelf EDRMS (sort of the private-sector equivalent of having a computerized catalog but no classification system).

    One of my degrees is an MLIS with a specialization in archives. A lot of my required coursework was about the digital world. I was in it for historical archives, but a lot of archives students are going on to become the archivist for a company or university. They all need one (or more) for the reasons stated here. And the pay is often really good for an MLIS.

     

    ETA: that is to say, there are ways to use an MLIS outside the traditionally thought-of school and public libraries. My mother's first job out of library school was a corporate librarian for Draper Labs, the company that worked on missile guidance systems and the Apollo missions' guidance system, requiring CIA clearance. She later taught at a library school.

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