DW put her spiky tires on her bicycle, and is going to the store to buy stuff for chili. :)

Hm, maybe we could make a paper garland.

I wish I knew where my origami paper is so I could have the kids cut stars (folding a couple of times, then cutting out pieces). I *could* use regular paper too, but you'd kind of want the paper to be square, and trying to cut normal printer paper to be square is, uh, not that fun. I *know* I have origami paper somewhere.

Finally pulled out the watercolor crayons for the kids. They work pretty well, and the kids had fun with them. Oh, and I set up the xmas tree. Turns out its lights are broken, and the branches are not getting better with time either, of course. So, at the moment it's kind of sad looking, with just three ornaments in it (Roman soldier, Viking ship, and a buffalo) and no working lights (it's a small tree, but still).

I prefer stuff with one or two sharps... Fis Cis or something.

Oh, and of course the violin being 1/4 size isn't helping anything either. Broccoli's violin teacher was amazed I was able to play on it at all.

Are we posting wish lists?

Most of the songs in that Lindsey Stirling book have like four flats. I had to count it out looking at them to even figure out what the 4th one was. Bes Es As Des. At least the Pokémon theme that I bought it four isn't that bad... but ugh... maybe I should've bought something else (I've also been able to make the Star Wars theme sound vaguely like the Star Wars theme, but I've only watched like half a Star Wars movie or something, so I'm not too familiar with that one). (it's not just the excessive flats... the notes aren't all that easy otherwise either)

But how does it make you edgy?

Unless you have a darn good reason to think the kid is on drugs, I wouldn't, since accusing them of being on drugs can backfire... the teen might think that if everybody thinks he's on drugs anyway, he might as well be on drugs. That's what happened to DW (obviously, it was a stupid choice, but I'm just saying - before she was accused of being on drugs, she wasn't using... she started after her therapist told her parents that she thought she was on drugs).

What does that mean? (I mean, how does that make you edgy? I know what ... is)

Happy birthday EP! :party:

You typed this while sitting on your fingers!? Wow, good job!

Btw, I'm sure that's because I listen to too much 80s music.

Yes, but they don't want to be on your list, they want to be in your shopping cart, and then have you click on check out now. YouTube ads are dumb. Google owns YouTube, I thought, and surely Google should know that I'm not ready to join the AARP just yet. :001_rolleyes:

Btw, you don't have to get the hardest questions on the ASVAB right in order to get in - but if you want to do something specific, like be a mechanic or a medic or w/e, it would be good to score high on related parts of the ASVAB. Or, at least that's my understanding. And you do have to answer some basic stuff correctly - but I don't know where the cut-off is.

Ass-fab (as-in "fabulous ass"). Okay, I don't do that on purpose, but with my Dutch accent my V's are somewhere between a V and an F, and it's funny (not that I say that word much). Seriously though, just using phonics: AS-vab (short A's), or at least that's how DW pronounces it, and she was in the army. Our library has a few test prep books for that. If yours doesn't, you might even be able to ILL them. Beyond that, no clue - I'm pretty sure DW didn't use one before taking the test, since, like I said, she didn't know it was adaptive and was wondering why the questions got so crazy hard and why it was taking forever.

I know I shouldn't, but I completely lack willpower.

I keep feeding the troll over on the high school board.

There is no "they" teaching or not teaching things in home school. What's taught in home school depends on what the parents decide to teach. IIRC we have at least one finance professor on this board - she's probably way more qualified to teach about this topic than you or I, and for all I know she might teach a kick-ass personal finance course for her kid(s? - I don't remember how many she has). What people are saying is that we don't need you to lecture to us (I see you're claiming that you're not doing that, but it sure seemed like it), nor to lecture us about what "the masses" are or are not learning. We're not in charge of that. Maybe try writing letters to your congresspeople and your school board and all that instead.

Since she told you not to come, I'm leaning towards only go if you want to. He's not going to come back to life if you go or anything. I missed three of my grandparents' funerals for financial/passport reasons. ETA: the 4th one died when I was 7, so well before I moved to the US.

Not sure, other than it gives access to more course numbers. So, if the first digit is for level (freshman, sophomore, etc), and the second digit is for credits, then with 3-digit course numbers you'd have only 10 numbers left, which at a bigger school offering a lot of courses in a topic might be too few. So, at the school I attended, CS1337 for example was a freshman level computer science course which'd get you 3 credit hours. Plus, having 4 digits allowed them to spell out leet. :laugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet ETA: I think at some (all?) schools using 3-digit course numbers the course number doesn't tell you in any way how many credits the course was.

I think the reason they tell you algebra 2 is a necessity is that that course (ime) has a very high failure rate. So, the idea is that if you've had algebra 2 you're more likely to remember/know enough algebra to be able to pass if than if you only had algebra 1. But yeah, if you're rock solid in algebra 1, I agree you should probably be fine.

Would any one read my son's [college admissions] essay? Presumably the admissions officers at the schools he's applying to.

Okay - I missed that one, probably because I generally don't read those threads (I only read these because they were mentioned on here), but she still did get quite different answers about her 9th grader.