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    Ignore this thread!

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    6 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

    Isn't Broccoli an Aspie?  That is such an Aspie thing. . .    I  can so relate with my son over the years.  He gets stuck (or used to - he's gotten better now that he's in his 20's) in one mode of thinking - rigidity of thinking is definitely an Aspie trait.  Arguing never ever ever worked.  Learning to set it aside and move on to something else has worked (with a lot of help) over the years.  If he is Aspie - you cannot discipline it out of him.  You can, however, teach coping skills. 

     

    He doesn't have a diagnosis, but Celery does, and my brother does, and I've had more than one therapist tell me they think my wife does, and I've suspected for a few years now that Broccoli might too (and so does the nurse who does his annual checkups), so, yeah. And yep, same thing with math. And I do often just let it slide, and when I don't I try to be supportive in an understanding way, rather than in an argumentative way, but, omg, sometimes it's just too much to have him tell me yet again that he wrote the correct answer and I must have changed it, kwim? 

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    I remembered Renai's post when we walked back from the library, so I asked the kids, and Broccoli was like "I've never heard of hyphenation", so, I talked to them about it. Then after we got home we worked a bit on spelling, since, as my mom said, Celery's spelling is 'weak' (um, yeah mom, it's his lowest score, but, 57th percentile is still not, er, 'weak'?). Anyway, I printed out a 7th grade spelling word list and had both kids write down 15 of the words that I dictated. They both got 4 wrong (the only word they both got wrong was 'adequate', lol). So, I had them copy the words they'd gotten wrong a few times correctly, and Broccoli threw a big tantrum. I'm so, so, so tired of him claiming that he wrote words correctly the first time and that I must have changed what he wrote. Like I'd want the extra effort of changing what he wrote just to make him do more work, and like I'd bother to fake his handwriting (which is way different from mine) for that. Uh-huh. It gets old, being accused of that. I'm all like "dude, maybe that's what you had in your head, but it's not what your hand wrote down", but he's adamant *I* changed it. Sigh. 

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    Posted · Edited by luuknam
    Boeja!

    51 minutes ago, whitehawk said:

    Go, Luuknam and veggies!

    DS kicked butt on his as well, but the test format (ITBS, so only bubbling in) is a boost for him compared to typical school assignments. #Isaidbutt

     

    Yeah, in all fairness, mine (especially Gene) do better with multiple choice as well, but hey, I can now report another >33rd percentile to the school district, so... 🙂

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    St John's College?

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    It's one of the colleges profiled in "Colleges That Change Lives" by Loren Pope (at least the 2013-2014 edition I have checked out from the library). I haven't read the section on that college yet, and even if I had, you'd probably be better off reading it yourself. A book like that might appeal to your son anyway, as it lists some other quirky small colleges. 

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    Best way to catch a mouse? Or many mice?

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    I tried a few different kinds in December and for our mice this kind seemed to work best iirc:

    https://www.target.com/p/victor-easy-set-mouse-traps-4ct/-/A-53461992?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&CPNG=PLA_Grocery%2BEssentials%2BShopping_Local&adgroup=SC_Grocery&LID=700000001170770pgs&network=g&device=c&location=9005549&ds_rl=1246978&ds_rl=1247077&ds_rl=1246978&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsMyYlsir4gIVFP7jBx37bg2pEAQYAyABEgKHLPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

    Also, glue traps are definitely not the cheapest, since they're not reusable (also, only one mouse was dumb enough to let itself get caught in one of the 4 I bought - the live catch trap my wife bought (with special attractive-to-mice-scented stuff) didn't catch any, not when used with that scent stuff nor with peanut butter. I did use both the scent stuff and peanut butter on the other kinds of traps and peanut butter definitely beats the special stuff they sell. The linked trap worked better iirc than the slightly cheaper similar trap that's completely metal (it's been a few months, so, I may be misremembering, but one of the two kinds was extremely trigger-happy (iirc the one I linked), and I managed to trigger it twice putting it down not gently enough, as well as catching my own thumb once, but hey, w/e is best for catching mice was the goal, though catching yourself isn't very pleasant). 

    AP Exam EARLY Sign Up Deadlines This Year!

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    3 minutes ago, Arcadia said:

     

    Scores can be deleted so I won’t worry about bad scores. The only thing to consider is whether you think your child is emotionally ready for it. The nice thing about the Macroeconomics and Microeconomics exams is that each exam is only 2hr 10mins long and they are on Wednesday and Thursday (unlike Physics C exams which are consecutive on the same afternoon). An exam fee is charged for each economics exam so you would pay twice the amount if he wants to take both.

     

    Thanks. I'll think things over this weekend and call the AP coordinator next week to see what needs to be done and by when to sign up for that around here, and then worry about it when that time comes. 

    AP Exam EARLY Sign Up Deadlines This Year!

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    1 hour ago, Arcadia said:

     

    I think NY academic year starts after Labor Day? That’s when you need to talk to schools’ AP coordinator. If possible, I would call the school’s main line and find out who is the current AP coordinator since it is AP exam week now (May 6th to 17th). October might be too late to find out which schools are willing to host homeschoolers. I paid in early January for this year’s March deadline.

     

    Yes, after Labor Day... I honestly have no idea yet if I'm completely crazy to be contemplating AP exams next year, so maybe I'll just look into CLEP instead since they have a later deadline? At least I guess I have the weekend to think things over, since schools aren't going to be answering their phones till Monday anyway. Are there any negatives to signing up for an AP exam in 7th grade (12yo) and then later deciding to not take the exam after all or taking it and getting less than a 3? (Other than obviously the money wasted, which isn't a huge concern).

    End of the academic school yr.......4 day count down!

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    On 5/6/2019 at 8:28 PM, 8FillTheHeart said:

    Anyone else counting down the days?  I am soooooo ready for this yr to be over and have some down time.  Ready for being "knee deep in the water somewhere, got the blue sky breeze and it don't seem fair, only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair."

     

    I wish... 4th quarterly report is due June... 28th. That's too many days away for me to figure out how many there are too count. 😞

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    2 minutes ago, Susan in TN said:

    Yes.  And we're none too happy about it!  :laugh:

    Aside from standardized testing, how are things in Veggie Land?

     

    Pretty good. This past week was a bit crazy, with Broccoli yelling "Pikachu" a lot - not sure if the stress of testing was getting to him, or the anticipation of his first soccer match (which was canceled because of weather), but anyway, that's over now. They play soccer three nights a week now through some free local program at the park a block and a half from here, so that's nice. And Celery still reads books like they're going out of fashion - this week he's read Animal Farm, 1984, and Lord of the Flies, among other ones (where's that fainting emoji?). 

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    In our almost 14 years of marriage we've never lived somewhere with more than 1 bathroom. In fact, my wife recently showed me an RV with 1.5 baths and I freaked out at the thought of the wasted space and the ridiculousness of it (she thought I'd like the floor plan, not counting the extra half bath, but I was too wtf to even look). Did I mention we're thinking of touring the US for a year?

    Btw, I obviously don't have 5 daughters. If I did 1.5 baths in a house (not an RV) would sound good. That said, my mom grew up in a house with 1 bathroom and she has 5 sisters and 1 brother (my grandfather added a 0.5 bath when I was a kid). They did have sinks in 3 of the bedrooms though. 

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