Renee in NC
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1 hour ago, freesia said:
Secular or religious?
Prefer secular, but religious is ok if it isn't over the top.
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I'm really lost at which direction to go. I homeschooled many years ago, so I am not new to this. I started homeschooling my 8th grader in January due to wanting better for him than what the local public school (academically and the environmentally) was giving him. We have floundered around the last 3 months or so because this was a last minute decision just before Christmas break. He is behind across the board. Grades 3-7 he went to a good charter school, but remote school during COVID lockdowns was a disaster for him (this is when he fell behind.) He changed to the local ps for 8th, and that was even worse.
In addition, I work a demanding full-time job in Corporate Finance (fully remote and flexible hours, but I spend a lot of times in meetings.) I am planning to outsource some things next school year, most likely through WTM Academy.
So here we are. I have a 14yo boy that is behind in every subject. He plans (at least for now) to go into programming. We started with Kahn Academy for math since he was familiar with that, but it wasn't working. I decided on AoPS - he tested into Pre-Algebra (barely!) I bought Grammar for the WTM, Writing with Skill 1, MegaWords 1, Story of the World Middle Ages, Memoria Press King Arthur, and a book called Rocks and Dirt for Science. We are muddling along in these except Science and writing (that was the wrong science choice and writing just isn't getting done.)
I have decided on WTM Academy for Expository Writing 1 (his writing is horrible.) He will do math year-round until he "catches up." We will continue through Grammar until it is done (and probably repeat once.) He can take course at the local high school (new district) and wants to do programming there. I need help with History, Science, Literature, Foreign Language. I'd like to do the 4-year history/lit cycle. I don't want to overwhelm him, but don't want him stuck in middle school courses either. I don't know where to go in Science.
Whatever we choose, I need it all laid out with lesson plans, books, workbooks, etc or to be a LIVE online course. There is nothing local we are interested in (coops and homeschool groups). I will take all the ideas I can get!
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EKS... I'm not willing to switch at this point as we are 35 lessons in. I think this could be a good learning experience. He is medicated fairly effectively. If at the end of Saxon Algebra 1 it really doesn't seem to be working, I'll look at Jacobs. It has to have teaching DVDs, though, as I said above I'm only here two days a week.
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My kid's school uses Saxon too. They had the kids do every problem in the problem set and also had them correct every problem in the problem set too. They gave weekly tests which I recommend especially since Saxon has test booklets to use. My kid also uses graph paper and was not allowed to use a calculator until he was almost done with saxon algebra 2 and only for problems like Trig problems that absolutely required a calculator. The school has a great track record with Saxon using these methods.
The weekly tests brought the problem to light. I hadn't been giving them to him, but he asked me to. I really wanted him to finish Algebra 1 by the end of the summer, but if it takes longer, it takes longer. He's got until June 2020 to finish through advanced math, so he has time.
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He did better yesterday. He has to correct those and so another test today. Hopefully it'll get better over the next couple of weeks.
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Thanks, Arctic Mom, for the help. He just needs to be able to pass the CC placement test by next spring, so he can get into the Auto tech dual enrollment program. I don't want him missing out because of sloppy mistakes!
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What really well for me, when I knew they understood the concepts but were just sloppy, was to pick out ten problems from the page -- a mix of easy, medium and hard ones. I'd tell them if they got those ten PERFECT, they were done math for the day. If they made even one small mistake, they had to do the whole page. Talk about motivation! :)
That's what I was doing, but read on here that you shouldn't do that with Saxon?
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He's 16, and I don't really want to have to hold his hand. Also, unfortunately, I'm only here two days a week. (I work full-him.) That precludes my sitting with him doing the lessons (and he'd probably lose his mind being that micro-managed. Lol)
He does have pretty severe ADD, and had an IEP in public school. However, at his age he has to learn to accommodate his weaknesses, too. It's hard to balance that I think. Parenting almost-adults is just hard! :)
Maybe just making him redo all the problems he misses every time will do the trick. He might get tired of doing them over and over again.
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My 9th grader came back home after 4.5 years in public school. He's always done very well in math, and had a 98 average in his last math course (called Foundations of Math, which is Pre-Algebra.)
I have him in Saxon Algebra 1, and he's about 35 lessons in. He seems to understand the concepts. He asked me to start giving him the tests, and he bombed his first one. The ones he missed were for little math mistakes (ie. didn't reduce to lowest form, switched a negative to a positive, copied incorrectly, etc.)
He knows his math concepts, it's just these little mistakes. Any ideas on what I can I do to help him be more accurate?
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*gently*
Please consider changing your focus to:
How can parents handle themselves when they don't like their young adult child's choices?
I'm in the trenches right now too and my child is already bombarded by our culture's opinions on college, launching etc. There's a lot of direct and subtle condemnation out there. I don't want to join in on that.
As the mother of a 21 year old and a 16 year old...this is it.
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I don't know that we do pay them less than a livable wage. Certainly cops are not underpaid everywhere.
A step 1 entry level officer here makes $69,240. This rises after 54 months to just over $90K. Plus there is overtime and a much more generous health package than is typical for private companies. I honestly can think of no job in the private sector where you are guaranteed pay raises totalling north of $20K after 4.5 years on the job, especially when you don't need any sort of 4 year college degree. Don't get me wrong I don't think cops here are overpaid and I would be amenable to them making more but $90K is a "living wage" and then some in this area. Starting pay wise this is comparable to what some engineers make out of college but the engineer likely won't hit $90k just 5 years on the job and they are unlikely to be eligible for overtime pay. Also consider that overtime and off duty work is available. And there's more money for getting promoted. I know a great detective and she's doing more than fine financially.
Here it is $33K to start, with no overtime. They do get comp time, so at some point if they need to take a lot of time off they can. My friend that has been a cop for 12 years makes about $45K. That is not unusual for this area, and he actually makes more than average (which keeps him from switching agencies.)
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There have been efforts to require the orange tips but they were blocked by the NRA.
However. There are real handguns made in candy color for recreational fun. Fake guns look real, real,guns look fake .
Orange tips have been required for more than 20 years - it's federal law. The toy gun in the picture has had it removed.
ETA: Many do remove them, but I throw toy guns without them away.
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More training on de-escalation is a good idea. Also assessing from a distance when this is possible. The latter probably would have saved Tamir Rice.
Another factor may be how many officers are present to help protect the public / each other while trying de-escalating tactics. This is going to be a matter of budget. At least a significant part of the funding for cops is from local sources, which aren't going to be abundant in low-income communities.
Here there aren't enough officers here for quick backup most of the time. They respond to calls alone, which can be difficult. It's harder to de-escalate when it is one indicidual.
My friend tells me stories about calls where he had to be creative to de-escalate the situation. He would convince them that their children didn't need to see Daddy fight the police man, or explain to them how much the sheetrock was going to cost to repair if they busted it all up fighting. He would go to serve warrants on holidays where he knew the women of the family (he grew up here) because he knew they would assist in the arrest (which is funny to me.) Another time he took a mentally ill person in who was KNOWN to attack officers without a hitch by simply talking to him and not dismissing his fears.
However, his de-escalation training came from the military, not his local police agency.
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You might like to watch some videos from Patrick Stewart talking about his father's untreated shell shock after WWII and the domestic violence that his mother and he subsequently suffered in consequence.
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I agree. Or to the wife of someone whose mental health deteriorated greatly after a fairly mild head injury. He ended up commited for more than a week after he was hunting his wife down intending to kill her and then kill himself. If not for insurance paying for it, he would have been barely stabilized and released.
Mental health care is for the benefit of everyone.
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Nevermind.
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My grandmother was born in 1909, and only died last year. She told the story of taking one of the early planes on an adventure in South America (they were a military family from the USA). It was the open kind where you wear goggles. Apparently, she was up in the air and really really had to go to the bathroom which of course was impossible in a 2 seater. So in desperation, she asked the pilot what to do. He suggested a cup, and she made do. But then she had a cup of urine, and not thinking, decided to throw it out the window. I assume you all can imagine what happened. Then entire cup of urine blew back inside and completely covered both of them. All she could remember was that she was wearing a very expensive fur coat!
Ruth in NZ
Knowing your grandmother, I can imagine she was MORTIFIED!
(BTW - hello Ruth!)
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Regarding the size difference -- I don't remember the specifics of the person's credentials as an expert in her subject, but I heard a lady interviewed on NPR months ago. One thing she mentioned as a possible factor in officer involved shootings is the lack of physical standards for officers nowadays. They used to have to meet rather rigorous requirements for weight and physical fitness, and that's not so anymore for most officers. I suspect we can all agree that there are a LOT of overweight, out of shape LEOs nowadays. And her contention was that being out of shape may cause LEOs to be quicker to rely on weapons. I don't know that there are any statistics to support (or not) that. But it made sense to me and has stuck in my mind. Officer Wilson is a big guy by just about any standard, but in the photos I've seen he looks rather "soft."
My friend and I have talked about this quite a bit. There are no physical standards or fitness standards for his agency anymore (or the other two town police forces in our county.) The reason is budget problems. If they had requirements, they would have to provide a place for fitness training, paid time for fitness training, and support for officers who didn't make the cut (much like the military.)
Patrol cops tend to be heavier than others here, but they spend HOURS sitting in their cars driving around, and eat a lot of fast food at meals because there aren't a whole lot of other options unless you are going to eat cold food. They also cycle through shifts from day to night (12-hour shifts) which is also hard on your health.
The thing I try to remember is that starting pay for a deputy here is right around $30K. That isn't much money for the job they do.
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I'm starting to get the impression that some people have quite unrealistic expectations of police officers. Just because some little guys can hold their own/have the upper hand in a fight vs. a big guy doesn't mean that they all can do it. Because some are expert marksmen who can almost always shoot in the legs to disable doesn't mean that everyone can. I highly doubt that we would have enough officers to fill the jobs if those are the qualifications. Yes, they go to training, but typically that is for a few months at the start of their careers. With all the budget cuts lately, I don't think they are going to as many training courses during their careers. Most of the time they are on the job they aren't fighting or shooting, and I don't believe they practice those things regularly. The majority of their time is spent working, not training. I believe most have to qualify with their weapon every three months, but that may be the only times they shoot over the year.
Here they get training a couple of times a year, but it is in the classroom, not tactical (except the SERT team.) They qualify once per year. Some practice shooting other times, some don't.
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I went to Walmart earlier for coffee creamer. It was organized chaos. They had lines for various deals, and at the appropriate time they passed them out. I was in and out in 9 minutes with coffee creamer and a ninja turtle pillow.
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This is awesome. Thank you for sharing.
I just read that on Facebook earlier, and I think he summed it up well. There is a middle ground in what has become a very devisive situation.
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Chart from PBS analyzing the various witness statements. I still do not understand why (well, I do...the prosecutor) there was not enough probable cause for an indictment. There's a boat load of probable cause for a trial to proceed. Sigh.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/newly-released-witness-testimony-tell-us-michael-brown-shooting/
- More than 50 percent of the witnesses said that Michael Brown held his hands up when Darren Wilson shot him. (16 out of 29)
- Only five witnesses said that Brown reached toward his waist during the confrontation leading up to Wilson shooting him to death.
- More than half of the witnesses said that Brown was running away from Wilson when the police officer opened fire on the 18-year-old, while fewer than one-fifth of witnesses indicated that was not the case.
If he was running away when the officer shot him, why were none of the shots to his back? I keep reading this various places, but I am not understanding how it could be true.
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If by over the ocean, you mean me, I don't have hatred for "cops" in general. The only one I know personally is one of the nicest most gentle people I've ever met. I love it when we have them around our area because they are number plate checking for arsonists. It was just a comment on the difference I've seen between us police and aus police - things escalate more quickly and more aggressively and there aren't second chances.
I don't think that has anything to do I both the individuals. It could be because of the crimes or crime levels they are dealing with. It could be a culture thing in the organisation. It could just be the way the TV presenters running the show like to edit to show the police force,
It certainly wasn't a scientific comment or anything. Just wanted to clear up that I don't have any hatred of the police.
I would say that it is a combination of sensationalized TV, and the fact that the only cases that are reported are controversial ones.
I can only think of two recent (in the past 10 years) deaths related to police in our area. One was a shooter who had shot AT police first, the other was killed by a taser. In the case of the shooting, the man had already shot one person in another county, was randomly shooting at cars as he drove down the road, and shot two police officers when confronted. This is my local police.
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SKL, how many cop friends do you have, married or otherwise? I mean, all the soldier friends of mine are female, but I'm aware that a sample size of two isn't very significant.
I have regular interaction with our local law enforcement, and the majority are white males. I do know several females, though, and I think the gender ratio will change in the future. What I would like to see is more minority law enforcement, but it seems the majority of people going through BLET are white males.
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National Bar Association released a statement
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b493e6c4d31beda32fdaf8e2d&id=73514e334b
I want to clairfy that this is not the American Bar Association. It was also released immediately after the announcement, so there was not even time for this organization to go through the released evidence. It would be a more effective statement if it had come after a review of the evidence presented.
Need help with 9th Grade planning for kid who is behind
in High School and Self-Education Board
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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I will try to answer some here. Just to clarify, since I work with people all over the world, my hours are very flexible. I tend to work 6-10am (for my UK people) do school 10-12 or so, then work until 5-6pm. Or use more time midday for personal stuff and work at night (for my Malaysia people.) So I do have some time, but not enough to get him where I want him on my own.
I just received AoPS yesterday. It resonates with me because this is how I think (I work with numbers all day everyday looking for solutions to problems I didn't know we had!) However, I see how it can be difficult and will need supplemental drill. I might try it for a bit, fill in some gaps I know of (fractions, for example) and see how it goes. I used Saxon in the past and it isn't my favorite, but if he and I can't get anywhere with AoPS (this is a subject I am willing to teach) then I will reconsider.
Is he willing? He is a 14yo boy, the youngest of 7 (5 boys) and I have never had a willing teenage boy! LOL! He works independently on some things (history, vocabulary, King Arthur) and we do Grammar together. I think he will be fine doing more on his own if it is very structured and laid out for him. I am that way, too. I had forgotten about the high school programs like Nebraska, so I will definitely utilize some of those courses.
I want him to read a LOT more than he does, so I may even look at something like Sonlight for history/lit. Not sure.
Thank you again - you have given me tons of ideas on which direction to go!