Not Another Homeschool Blog

Here's a bit of a flashback from the beginning of our homeschool journey: Perhaps I should not have informed the teachers I planned to pull my children out of school months in advance. I believe it did more harm than good considering the steps one teacher took to keep my child in the system. This caused a lot of frustration on both my part and the teacher's. I was at a conference with my daughter's teacher when she really got under my skin. She and several teachers before her had hinted strongly that my daughter needed to be tested for ADHD and medicated. She talked about how she ignored her own son's problems until it was too late, and how she did not want the same thing to happen to my daughter. She was a sweet woman really, and prefaced every single word with "bless her heeaaaart" when referring to my daughter. Finally she sighed and said; "I don't know how she will be admitted into second grade without medication." "Fine", I said, ...

My kids aren't getting much of a break this summer, but I don't think they've realized it yet. My daughter is still working on www.time4learning.com this summer, but at a slower pace. She is also doing summer bridge workbook in her spare time. My son is using the Summer Bridge book as well, and has a tutor he is meeting with a few times this summer to break some bad habits before 8th grade math. He also decided to do the critical thinking "reading detective" workbook as well. Who am I to stop them.. here is where It gets sneaky on my part. My daughter is doing a pageant at the end of the month and I am having her write her introduction. I suggested an acrostic poem. So she learns a bit about poetry this summer and gets some writing done. Also, she has a bad habit of asking me alot of really good questions, and If I don't give her an answer, she just forgets it. I gave her a question notebook and told her I would reward her weekly based on how many of her que...

Does An Ivy League Education Mean A Better Salary? Is the question asked in the WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA website. The story is about a young man named Robert Binion who with SAT scores of 1580, and a GPA of 4.27 could go to any college he pleased. He chose a local state college because it would cost him nothing. He could have gone to Harvard at the cost of $200,000.00, but questioned the value in the end. Was this a smart choice? Well, Lorraine Hastings a Princeton economists pointed out that “ the wages of adults who, 20 years earlier, were in college… didn't depend on where you went to school, but how hard you work.” In the same way you could say that WHERE the student spends his elementary, MIDDLE & high school career will not be affected in his potential income but instead have hard he works. Meanwhile Studies show that… Home Schooling Keeps Students, Parents Closer: “ home schooling is not just academics “.