Not Another Homeschool Blog

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I just read a newspaper article profiling a local homeschooling family http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/08/13/b2s.homeschool/index.html To be "fair" CNN inserted quotes from a homeschool adversary, Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists. Of course he is accociated with The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, who have long lobbied against home schooling, passing a yearly resolution that says "home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience." Here's the quote that burned my butt: Unless we are prepared to keep our children in bubbles their entire lives, we have to give them an opportunity to have some exposure to real-world problems so they can develop coping strategies," says Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists. What a maroon! I say my children are no more in ...

what is really taught in gifted classrooms? A quote from the subject of the newest washington scandal... the one that started with a blog: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54736-2004Aug10.html Jessica finds it curious that she and several of her gifted classmates became underemployed slackers with attitudes. She wonders if that traces back to the lessons they learned in the gifted program. "You kind of create your own moral universe," Jessica says. "It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here."

Monday, August 16, 2004 Back to homeschool day The public kids are back in school My childrens rooms are cleaned and organized All curricullum is purchased and it's tiem for back to homeschool day! MY KIDS ARE NOT HAPPY. I had tried to homeschool thru the summer, but sometime in July, I lost control. Everyone else was having summer break and even though their curricullum was fun ( learning games) they'd had enough. So they I let them be lazy bones with thier only educational activity being music lessons and thier only phyisical activity being swimming. I had to force them awake this morning, and right now, Jordan is practing piano and fussing. 1/2 hour is too long... my fingers are tired, I don't feel good... can I stop yet. ( only 10 minutes to go)... I am hoping that being well practiced will make her more prepared for Miss K. I have yet to make a final decision about the music teacher. Jackson is taking a shower and straightening his room while he waits fo...

and it's a very good thing. On the eve of back to school day for all the kids in my county, my son spent the night throwing up and my daughter also felt sick. They are laying on the couch right now, and it's no big deal because there is no offical start date for us. Isn't the flexibility of homeschooling wonderful?

where I live, it is back to school time. We have already had our tax free days and 1/2 of the kids around here had their first day on yesterday. The rest go back next monday. As for us... we are preparing to start our second year homeschooling. Things that need to be done first. Setting up the new classroom/computer center int he basement Organizing the childrens bedrooms rooms... getting all the books from under thier beds etc...and putting them back on shelves. It shouldn't take more than a week or so to complete that. The drywall guy is almost done finishing the room, and then we will move right in even before the rest of the basement is finished. As for curriculum, I have decided to go back to what we used last year. ChildU.com is not accepting individual homeschoolers anymore, but they resubscribed us because we had a previous subcription. Anyone else who is interested will have to email them for a school that they can go through. It was just plain easy to use, an...