I haven't tried it yet, but I've seen a couple of mixes in the bread machine section of the grocery store...

Seconding IMBD. Very detailed usually, so you can make your own decisions on what is or isn't OK. There are crude innuendoes, porn (anything that you see is bikini-type pics)/masturbation comments, and a few jokes with a teen boy drooling over a busty, trophy wife... Unless you're extremely conservative, though, 10th grade should be fine to gloss over the above. The actual storyline was really sweet.

Yeah, I'm not sure where that one comes from... :huh: I have to say, most of the engineers I know are kind of dorky, open, wise-acre types. No offense intended and kids LOVE this type of person.

I realize it isn't even remotely PC, from what I've seen of oil boom-towns, that seems to be true… :001_unsure: that said, my college didn't have Greek houses. I don't think anyone missed anything, personally.

Well clearly my 2010 white MacBook is still top of the line around here… lol

I've worked in public education for 20 years. While there are plenty of teachers I've known who were probably in the upper end of their high school class, I've discovered that doesn't necessarily make them giants in intelligence… :glare: That is, I have known a number of rather stupid teachers. :sad: However, I don't think teachers are any dumber than they've ever been, really. Nor do I think teacher intelligence has as much to do with student success as people like to tell themselves.

Also, the current Libertarian party isn't necessarily synonymous with libertarian political ideals (much like the Communist party isn't a very good example of actual communism)

Honestly even informal logic seems like more than 95% of the population will ever see!

I've noticed a lot of self-proclaimed libertarians don't actually understand what the term means...Usually the extreme right-wing calling themselves "libertarian." WordNerd is right.

Yet another who voted somewhere else entirely. I like politcalcompass.org for the this questions, personally...

I subbed in the bustle and chaos of a happy, busy 2nd grade for the last two days. It reinforced my conviction that homeschooling is really the best approach for most 2Es.

I teach. Better than that, I LIKE to teach and I'm pretty good at it, if I do say so myself. I believe in the value of public education. That said, one of my kids is a *mess* when he's in school. He can't keep track of his assignments, he can't pay attention, he has dyslexia and yet he's coasting through chemistry as a 9th grader... All of these things make for a kid who simply does not fit the classroom model, no matter how much I might believe in it.

The likelihood is fairly slim... I'm guessing that's why so many of us homeschool our 2Es. ;)

I'm with Crimson in that of the kids I've known personally I'd put it closer to 30% than 3... And I also agree with those who've pointed out that these are the kids that are usually missed for both labels, rather than have both (or more) exceptionalities actually identified. To be sure, I know I've had 2Es sitting in my classroom where the SpEd teacher swore that no, they're just SLD… No, you need to work with him, in comparison to his peers, on subject matter he's interested in. There's a LOT of brain firing behind that reading delay. From a personal standpoint, my family is overflowing with engineers and artists who can't write (or read, in a few cases).

Year one covers "a lot" because it was very early in the recording of human history. Mostly it's brief because there's relatively little recorded as compared to Year 3, for example! ;) Personally, if you're going to do that much shuffling and adjusting, you might just skip TOG entirely. Have you read The Well Trained Mind, yet? You are completely capable of creating your own full curriculum, just using the basics that are outlined in TWTM.

I agree!! A friend of mine went the "free" route, divorced her ex. (who happens to be one of the premiere Angus bull-producers in the country) and she ended up with nothing more than $300 mo. for child support for their two kids.

My dad is a small-town attorney, which means he's done a little bit of everything. But in a small town, not only do you have the typical headaches of a divorce, you also get pissed off husbands who stalk your kids, or you know both parties, or their kids are your kids' friends… He hated doing divorces. I vividly remember the year Dad finally decided he was doing well enough he no longer had to do divorces. He never did another.

Yeah, because Core100 is used by a sulky 13 year old boy who would rather die than be caught enjoying something school related. lol(However, I do have a good pic of Ds on his top bunk, listening to Tom Sawyer and rolling with giggles over whatever Tom and Huck were doing at the time ;) )

Aren't these just for the cover, though? Seems like the photos scattered about within the catalog tend to be the ones where Susie is upside down on the coffee table with slippers on...

Or change the store, maybe… It doesn't matter what the "local" store is, if it's shipping to you anyway.

Until you figure out which direction you're going to go, you might just have him do the Reading Assignments (yellow stripe): History Core & In-Depth if you want, Lit and WorldView (if you're doing Bible) Then skim through the Teacher's Notes for the Rhetoric outline for each of those sections for your discussion. Have him hit some of the questions in his Student Activity Pages (blue stripe) so he knows what you're going to be talking about in discussion. And then don't worry about any of the rest of the stuff. For that matter, don't even bother pulling ALL of the discussion questions. Just a sampling of whatever catches your eye. I'm looking at bailing on TOG, too. ;) For me though, it's not that my 9th grade mathy/sciencey guy doesn't like history (because he does), it's just that it annoys me that I'm supposed to spend $45, per unit/quarter, for the guides and I barely use 10% of it. Then I have to buy books and such on top of it! I'm thinking I can pull this together on my own just as easily and MUCH cheaper.

There are "horse people" and then there are "people with horses." Try to find the latter. Personally, I have no patience for horse people… They do tend to be flakey, self-absorbed and pretty snobbish toward the non-horse people crowd. "People with horses," on the other hand, have a different set of priorities, though they look similar from the outside. (Actual, working cowboys almost always fall in the "people with horses" category, as an example.) I would definitely try 4H first. HOPEFULLY, there's a leader or two in your neighborhood who are like the leaders in mine; driven by kids first, horses second. And the feed stores are a possibility but you might specify that you're trying to avoid "horse people" and they'll probably know exactly what you're talking about. ;)

I've heard a number of people over the years, both those affected by infidelity as well as counselors, recommend Marriage Builders...

Joanne, I had a similar experience with a co-worker. And frankly, my marriage wasn't even rocky or distant or anything. It was just…eh. Stale? Trap wasn't doing anything wrong, but a new attraction is exciting. It's fun. It makes us feel desirable. And It's still full of possibilities of being everything we've ever wanted. Trap commented on my attention to appearance one day, though and it registered in my head what I was actually doing. I sure wasn't being mindful for him, contrary to what he thought. Fortunately, I had the perspective of having watched a friend's marriage go through the exact, same thing recently. So we talked about it and while there was definitely a part of me that wanted to be selfish and keep my new…whatever it was…going, I knew I had to be a grown-up and deliberately create that distance, just like you were talking about. But, consequently, I can see how very easy it is to make a new connection with someone that is fun and consuming and even fulfilling. And it doesn't take much to convince ourselves that we deserve something like this. Nor does it take much to make the new (though quite fake at that point) relationship seem so much better than the existing one... And it was all on me. My husband wasn't doing anything wrong. He had no idea what was going on entirely within my own head. For that matter, I didn't even realize I was looking until it fell it my lap.

Yep, if they were out, they're back IN stock...