Not Another Homeschool Blog

Two local teen girls brought a cake to school and served it too thier classmates at lunch. It didn't look necessarily appealing, but several classmates ate some and got sick. It turns out the cake was made from cornbread, and had bleach, tobasco sauce, and playdoh in it. How anyone could digest that is beyond me, but there must have been other ingredients that made it taste good enought to eat. The father of one of the girls claims she has a condition that causes her to make poor judgement calls and the school needs to find a way to deal with this. I have a problem with his statement. Schools are for learning. If a child has a special problem, the schools should not have to take time away from teaching to monitor a child. This is the parents duty. If someone has to escort this child every time she leaves a classroom, as had been happening up until last week, then perhaps the parents should hire someone to do it. By giving so much attention to one child, other kids wi...

My Inlaws are 1/5th of the way through a 2 week stay. Homeschooling becomes ever increasingly difficutlt each day. I really should just stop altogether with lessons until they leave... but with the holidays coming and a business trip my husband and I have to take, we are looking at over a month off if I start now. The other reason I am hesitant to stop is because of appearances. I don't want them to think I am not teaching the kids... but all that is resulting is discipline problems. They want to be with grandma and grandpa, and any suggestion of "school work" is out of the question. All I am getting is a headache. While talking to a friend of mine yesterday, she metioned that I should tailor their lessons around the visit. She emailed me interview questions that the kids could ask thier grandparents . I printed the questions and adapted them for homeschooling and let them free to ask them questions. Next I will have them type it out into story f...

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