Please excuse my absence. I have been up to my eyebrows in taking care of college stuff for my eldest who has transferred from a private to a public college.
I can tell you this though. Private colleges make the payment and financial aid loan process soooo much easier. Based on working with two private colleges, and one public, I feel like the public college is completely clueless and non communicative.
Right now I am fearful that classes and dorm rooms will get cancelled because of some paperwork that did not get processed correctly, and I am seriously exhausted trying to figure it all out.
Sooo.. if you are looking at a public college for your kids, I will first say start early, very early to make sure all the t's are crossed, and i's are dotted. Then, keep checking on things because stuff can blow up at any moment!
Don't slack on homeschooling your kids
If you slack on homeschooling your kids, there could be a 5 page article in the Washington Post about you.
Josh Powell is clearly unhappy with his upbringing/ education and is terrified for his siblings. As mentioned at Happy Elf Homeschooling, his parents probably didn't suck as much as he thinks. After all, he is a self starter, who was able to get himself into Georgetown University, even if it did take 3 years of community college. But heck, I had a hard time in college, at the beginning after being an A student in high school, so who's to say that with tables turned, there wouldn't be a similar story about homeschooling.
Still, the prospect of such an event where my kids would think I'd done them a disservice by homeschooling kept me on the straight and narrow. I taught, I tested, I found teachers who could teach things I could not, which by the way negates many of the comments attached to this article.
Josh Powell thrived under his mother’s instruction early on. At 4, he was already reading chapter books. Andrea Powell, a University of Virginia graduate who has managed most of her children’s education over the years, let her husband speak for the family. As the family grew, Josh Powell said, things deteriorated. He learned from a mishmash of textbooks his parents assembled, with more and more self-instruction because there were so many other children to raise and teach. As subjects got increasingly complex, he had more trouble figuring them out on his own.
Josh Powell is clearly unhappy with his upbringing/ education and is terrified for his siblings. As mentioned at Happy Elf Homeschooling, his parents probably didn't suck as much as he thinks. After all, he is a self starter, who was able to get himself into Georgetown University, even if it did take 3 years of community college. But heck, I had a hard time in college, at the beginning after being an A student in high school, so who's to say that with tables turned, there wouldn't be a similar story about homeschooling.
Still, the prospect of such an event where my kids would think I'd done them a disservice by homeschooling kept me on the straight and narrow. I taught, I tested, I found teachers who could teach things I could not, which by the way negates many of the comments attached to this article.
MarkDavidovich
7/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT
I have yet to meet an individual or couple competent to home-school any child from kindergarten through high school. I doubt such a broad person exists in society at large, let alone among those parents who would deny their children professionally-done education based upon their religion....
Pompass Ass!
I hate how some people wait in hiding for a one in a million story to come out so they can pounce all over homeschooling again, and the comments section of this story is chock full of them.
Homeschooling or Hackschooling from a kids perspective
This video from TedX makes me want to start homeschooling all over again. I'd have to go find a new kid though.
Homeschool Vlog Hop
A bunch of youtubers and I am working on a series of videos on homeschooling. Here is my first video:
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12 grade year of homeschooling, Finishing Strong
We are almost done with my college prep series. There will still be a video on completing the transcript. Stay tuned... meanwhile, ...
