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So, aside from this school not being a true safety, I guess the lesson is to make sure that you seem very eager to attend your safety, to reduce the odds of being denied out of yield protection?
I think the article writer's cat would've had a hard time getting decent SAT and AP scores.
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Kids are on their own for dinner tonight. Dh and I are going to Thai.
It's a Thai บุย่า
FTFY
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Also, there are often kids.
I'm pretty sure that with kids you can do the whole court custody/child support battle thing whether you were ever married, ever lived together, etc or not, whether common law is a thing in your state or not, etc. Basically, I don't know that there are any benefits to being (common law or otherwise) married wrt custody and/or child support in most (all?) states.
But only in those states (or countries) where common law marriage is even a thing.
Obviously... I thought that went without saying.
ETA: I guess the main benefit is that the guy you're married to is automatically considered to be the father, so it'd get rid of the need to request a paternity test.
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I think it’s hilarious that anyone would think that hanging a jacket on a door frame makes someone a slob lol.
Yes, feeling very thankful we hang our coats on chairs. :lol:
(In our previous place we got a coat rack, but when we had to move and tried to unscrew it from the wall, it wouldn't come out cleanly... so, we left it, not wanting to damage the wall. Since we're also renting this place, and were planning to do so for only 1-2 years (it's been 3/4 year), we have zero desire to risk messing up a wall with another screw-in coat rack, and stand-alone coat racks are weird and take up a lot of space for no good reason.)
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Yes, it's messy. Less messy than mine, but that doesn't mean it's tidy.
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If you look at the link, there is no automatic common law marriage determined after a certain length of time. It is a court decision based on relationship. And I would assume it would only go to court if someone took it to court to establish either inheritance rights or property rights or some other kind of rights.
It does however say that you may be found to be in a common law marriage by the courts, and that if you don't want to be, that you should both sign a piece of paper saying it's not your intent. In other words, if you split up, your partner could claim that it was a common law marriage, even if you didn't want it to be. This might require you to spend big money on a divorce lawyer, which could be a disadvantage to women just as easily as it could be an advantage.
I get that it could be great for inheritances, but really, it's not that much work to go to the court house and get married, nor that expensive (if you're too poor to get married, then odds are that there isn't anything worth inheriting either).
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It was created as a protection for women. Why would we want to take that away?
For one, I don't get the impression that being married provides many benefits in the event of a split-up, and besides, it's pretty easy to refuse to cohabit with a guy (or woman) if they refuse to marry you.
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If people live together 10 years, there has to be some kind of metric used to adjudicate if they separate.
Does there? Like, if I live together with my best friend for 10 years without being in a romantic relationship, would we need that? If we live together in a romantic relationship, but keep all our finances separate, do we need that? Why can't we just treat people like adults, and let them decide whether to enter into a legal contract or not, rather than make it automatic if they happen to cohabit and sleep together for a certain period of time?
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What benefit would come from not allowing common law marriage?
So you don't unintentionally end up married?
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7yo: "So, the log of a billion would be 9, and of a trillion 12, and of a quadrillion 15?"
Thanks Fred. :svengo:
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And while I'm rambling on, the above obviously also depends on whether I think I can pull off calculus-based physics with calculus as a co-req or whether it needs to be a pre-req. Again though, way too soon for me to worry about. I guess the only thing I wonder about is if I should make sure he does all those 5 by the end of 11th grade, so he can take the exam again in 12th if he fails something. I think they give you only one chance per year for the APs, right? In NL, the high school final exams have two chances per year, one in April or so, and one a month or so later.
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I think it would be a better fit. I think conceptual physics is great for those who aren’t ever going to get the math of physics or for whom they need to do it in 9th grade before they have had algebra 2.
Physical Science, not physics. We might or might not do an algebra-based physics at some point, or we might just jump into a calculus-based physics. That's still too far off for me to contemplate at the moment. To keep university admissions to any major in NL open, he'll need to take AP Calc BC, AP Physics C (apparently there are two of those, electromagnetics and mechanics?), AP Chem, and AP Bio, so, realistically, he'll be taking those 5 APs at some point in the future. What I do not intend to do is a conceptual physics course though... either a good high school level algebra-based physics (including a bit of trig) and then AP Physics C, or just plain AP Physics C. Since Alg 1 is in 6th grade, Geometry would be in 7th, Alg 2 in 8th, so Precalc in 9th, so presumably I won't have to worry about AP Physics C until at least 10th grade, I'd imagine.
ETA: well, technically I should probably worry about what he takes in 10th grade while he's in 9th grade, but, I just don't think he'd be taking calculus-based physics before 10th grade (unless, of course, he repeats 8th grade for maturity etc reasons, in which case he could potentially take it in 9th grade... but that would still be just as long from now).
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Is celery gifted?
2E, I think. He's great at math, he reads non-fiction well above grade level, tested into CTY's gifted program (not that we ever used any of their stuff), barely meeting the verbal cut-off but almost meeting the award ceremony level for quantitative, but, he struggles with things related to his ASD, isn't great with motor skills, writing, speaking (talks a lot now though, just still struggling a bit with intelligibility and with what background knowledge the listener may or may not have), understanding fiction, etc.
I decided that I'm done contemplating Hewitt's Conceptual Physical Science - I doubt thinking about it any more will do any good, so I caved and put the book, the practice book, and for good measure the lab manual (all of the 5th edition... it's unclear to me whether there's any point in the lab manual, but it was only like $8 including shipping and I'm just done thinking about it all) into my shopping cart and hit check out ($32 for all of the above total incl. shipping). Like I said, I could just have it sit on my shelf till 7th or 8th grade. I also think there's a good chance we'll just take 1.5 or 2 years to get through it (rather than just having it sit on the shelf). We'll see.
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That's the problem with these forums... some people will make things sound like they're really easy and light or possibly even "math-free", and then other people are like "noooo, it's hard, look at all these equations!". I still have no clue if the book will be great for Celery for 6th grade, or if I'm being delusional and we'll have to shelve it till 7th or 8th (I have a strong suspicion that when certain posters say it's easy, light, and math-free, they might be underestimating the difficulty level a bit (like, a few grade levels)).
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Basically, if Spud is intimidated by the math, it's probably plenty for 6th grade. :)
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Ok, yes, don’t be a complete idiot like I am and buy a second edition workbook and a fourth edition text. :svengo:
:grouphug: I really, really, really appreciate all the help you're giving me though!
At least you still have time to find a matching edition.
And yes, Prairie, it's easy to find table of contents and indices, but those don't really tell you how much math is used. I don't want/need an Alg 2 based physical science; I just would rather not have a math-free physical science. It's for 6th grade... Alg 1 as a co-req kind of thing, tops.
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Sure, just quote the first part and not the second part where I confess my incompetence. ;)
Thanks, and done. I left out the confessions, but kept the last part of the second part.
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I asked Spud, who's also considering doing Hewitt's Conceptual Physical Science (not Physics) next year, but who already has the book (in case anyone else was wondering):
Looks like algebra to me...I see variables, square roots, squares, fractions, pi. Here’s one answer: “From Coulomb’s law, F=k(q1q2/d squared)= (9x10 to the ninth)((1.0x10 to the negative sixth)squared))/(0.03)squared= 10N. This is the same as the weight of a 1-kg mass.â€
Sorry, I don’t know how to make it look nice.
... But I can’t imagine saying there’s no math. Maybe “simple†enough a mathy kid and mom could do it without having taken a whole year of algebra previously?-
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Also, do you have the practice book yet? How is it?
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Looks like algebra to me...I see variables, square roots, squares, fractions, pi. Here’s one answer: “From Coulomb’s law, F=k(q1q2/d squared)= (9x10 to the ninth)((1.0x10 to the negative sixth)squared))/(0.03)squared= 10N. This is the same as the weight of a 1-kg mass.â€
Sorry, I don’t know how to make it look nice.
Honestly, I don’t even remember what that means anymore. Assuming I ever learned, which I might not have bc I only did bio in high school, so the last time I had physical science was 8th grade. I’m going to have to pass off the mathier sections to dh. But I can’t imagine saying there’s no math. Maybe “simple†enough a mathy kid and mom could do it without having taken a whole year of algebra previously?
Thanks! Yeah, that's what I thought. Mind if I quote you on the other thread (on the Logic Stage forum, about the difference between physical science & physics)?
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Seriously though, how many people wash underwear etc on cold? Sanitize (i.e. extra hot), and then the hottest dryer setting, all the way. Using bleach on an empty load in the washer multiple times a week just because some germs could be left there seems kind of extreme.
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Why would it be unhygienic to throw them in with something else? They all get clean by the end of the load, don't they?
I think it depends on the setting... for the delicates cycle with cold water only, I'd be icked out. That said, practically everything I wash goes on sanitize, so, unless things are crazy dirty, I don't see a problem putting it all together (and when they are crazy dirty, I usually use one of two approaches: 1) prerinse them in the bathtub to get the mud or w/e out, or 2) throw them in the trash).
ETA: as to the bathroom/kitchen... I will sometimes use the kitchen sink if someone else is brushing their teeth or w/e. That said, that means I don't touch any doorknobs or w/e, I turn on the faucet with my clean hand and/or back of my hand, and I tend to either walk back to the bathroom to dry my hands there, or dry them on my clothes.
ETA2: and I agree... I wouldn't imagine my kitchen sink being clean regardless. :lol:
ETA3: sanitize cycle = extra hot.
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Hewitt Conceptual Physics DOES use math. It doesn’t use it the way a calc-based Physics course does
Well, yeah, I obviously wasn't expecting that (nor wanting it). I also wasn't expecting a whole lot of manipulations, but I was thinking it would at least have some plug-in-the-formula stuff based on the sample about Newton's 2nd law. Maybe I should start another thread about what secular Physical Science is at a 7th-9th grade reading level or so and actually uses pre-algebra and some basic algebra (textbooks etc only, no online classes). For example, Celery has finished LOF Pre-Algebra 0 with Physics, which obviously uses some plug-in-the-formula math to do the physics (as well as having to remember/figure out which formula to use for some things). So, at least that level, or preferably maybe slightly more math, but Physical Science, not just Physics (also, if anyone knows of an astronomy text that meets those specs, that'd be great too, but I get the impression that that does not exist - the middle school astronomy texts seem to be math-free, and the AP or college texts are probably a bit too hard to read - there doesn't really seem to be a 9th grade or so astronomy text).
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Hey Spud, can you tell me how much math (if any) Conceptual Physical Science uses? My impression was not much in the way of manipulations, but I did think it involved some plug-in-the-formula stuff... but now on another thread regentrude is saying no math whatsoever, but then when asked she said she'd gotten rid of the book, so, who knows (I figure, you know, since you have the book).
S/O Is it time to get rid of common law marriage?
in The Chat Board
Posted · Edited by luuknam
But the state *isn't* staying out of it. Also, iirc our marriage license was more along the lines of $30, maybe even less - certainly nowhere remotely near $500.