Bullying, A rite of passage?

The people who used to complain that homeschoolers were not socialized enough are now insisting that homeschoolers are missing out on the important rite of passage of bullying.  I feel like it is mostly bullies not people who have been bullied that are spouting this nonsense.

Our current presidential administration, thankfully, disagrees.

The Obama administration is launching a campaign to prevent anti-gay bullying and other

I don't like this language arts curriculum at all (video)

I am not going to go on about it, the video says it all. 

But I just wish I could find a good quality language arts program for 11th and 12 grades. 



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Teenage Rants from a Homeschooling Mom

 I just got home from driving my kids to the other side of the county in Metro Atlanta traffic for their homeschool elective classes.  Their day starts at 8am and ends between 5 and 7 pm depending on Drama Club calls.

On the way home I called my husband who was also driving and we spent about 40 minutes complaining about our kids.  (Sorry Oprah, but the talking while driving conversation was much needed.)

Anyway, I called him to complain that while our daughter knew that our washing machine needs repair and leaves the clothes too wet, she still didn't wash her required

If you think the way they dress doesn't matter...

I read a very good article that speaks of how young black men feel pushed out of Tampa Bay schools.  No one is interested in their success.  They are being pushed through and pushed aside.  They are not treated as individuals they complain.  ... And their complaints are very true. 

One statement bugged me though.

Bernard Scott is the only person in his family who graduated and pursued

Some things are more important than curriculum

I am still tweaking the kids' language arts curriculum because I feel like they need to spend more time on writing and less time on following someone a curriculum word for word.  It drives me crazy that I spent so much on a curriculum that was just wayyyy more than I was looking for.  It is really more of a worldview religion course than a language arts course... so I need to extract the language arts parts and have the kids focus on writing good essays. 


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I think they may be on to something- 75 students, 7 teachers

I have been blogging about this for ages or at least something close to it.  In my special little world (in my head) school classes would be workshops with numerous teachers per classroom.

My reasons are: 

Deadlines are so important for homeschoolers

As a homeschooler, it is important to set deadlines for projects.  I admit this is my weakness.  I tell them I want something done by a certain time and I feel like they pat me on my head and say "ok, mama".. then they don't do it. 

This is one of the reasons I have had them take outside classes over the years, to have someone else put a fire under their butts and make them get assignments done.  This is imperative for anyone who plans to go out into the workforce. 

There are other ways to set deadlines that kids won't ignore.  Something my son just completed, barely under the wire, was a scholarship competition for SCAD.  He had to create a video to submit to the competion.  There was planning, setting location, working with the actress, filming, and editing.  He got it done on time, but barely.  But that's OK.  Win or not, he has the sense of accomplishment of meeting a deadline (without taking any shortcuts either).



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