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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I just read a newspaper article profiling a local homeschooling family http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/08/13/b2s.homeschool/index.html To be "fair" CNN inserted quotes from a homeschool adversary, Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists. Of course he is accociated with The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, who have long lobbied against home schooling, passing a yearly resolution that says "home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience." Here's the quote that burned my butt: Unless we are prepared to keep our children in bubbles their entire lives, we have to give them an opportunity to have some exposure to real-world problems so they can develop coping strategies," says Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists. What a maroon! I say my children are no more in ...

what is really taught in gifted classrooms? A quote from the subject of the newest washington scandal... the one that started with a blog: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54736-2004Aug10.html Jessica finds it curious that she and several of her gifted classmates became underemployed slackers with attitudes. She wonders if that traces back to the lessons they learned in the gifted program. "You kind of create your own moral universe," Jessica says. "It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here."

Monday, August 16, 2004 Back to homeschool day The public kids are back in school My childrens rooms are cleaned and organized All curricullum is purchased and it's tiem for back to homeschool day! MY KIDS ARE NOT HAPPY. I had tried to homeschool thru the summer, but sometime in July, I lost control. Everyone else was having summer break and even though their curricullum was fun ( learning games) they'd had enough. So they I let them be lazy bones with thier only educational activity being music lessons and thier only phyisical activity being swimming. I had to force them awake this morning, and right now, Jordan is practing piano and fussing. 1/2 hour is too long... my fingers are tired, I don't feel good... can I stop yet. ( only 10 minutes to go)... I am hoping that being well practiced will make her more prepared for Miss K. I have yet to make a final decision about the music teacher. Jackson is taking a shower and straightening his room while he waits fo...