If you've kept up with my sporadic blog, you know I spend a good year commuting to and from NYC, where my husband was working. I tried several different types of transportation, as all that travel gets expensive. I ended up using Frontier, for most of my travel as if I traveled in advance it was dirt cheap... but dirt cheap is well... dirty and cheap. Like that time I took the China bus and spend several hours locked in a frantic gaze with a cockroach. So anyway, here are the problems I have had, the last one, I am currently still having. 1. Dirty... The airplane itself could be cleaner.... but when flights are dirt cheap, you are dealing with a population that gives a pass on that, so between the effort to clean and the fact that everyone is getting on with enough food to last on a 3 month Trek to Alaska, then nastiness will happen. Frontier is the MegaBus of the air. 2. A-la-cart. Sure, you can fly to NYC and back for $$60.00, but that's just for you, your lu...
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I am in total agreement with you!
Eric Novak
My parents felt that we had better warn them that there was some material at the beginning of the video that wasn't appropriate for a younger audience.
Eric Novak
To the writer who was positing the objection to homeschooling as isolating and indoctrinating then added parents who travel are the only ones who could expose their children to other cultures...
How is that an objection to homeschooling? It's rather an endorsement. Parents whose children are imprisoned in public schools are relegated to traveling only at peak times, which automatically limits their choices and opportunities for exposure. Homeschooling families can (and often do) take their school on the road, integrating their travels into their curriculum. The history, economy, culture and geography of the places visited become the topics of the hour. The traveling homeschooled students thereby learning far more about each destination than a family traveling for vacation.
It's the children stuck in school, isolated with their age-mates and kept away from people of differing ages, bored silly and wasting their days while planning what to do *after* school who need a break. They're being indoctrinated by their government and teachers' unions rather than having an opportunity to question and challenge all that they encounter.