tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post963985797834167660..comments2024-03-11T11:13:12.066-05:00Comments on Homeschool and Etc.: Parental Accountability and School Marketing?Happy Elf Mom (Christine)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15047347624037697311noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-83174010735655232532008-11-18T05:17:00.000-06:002008-11-18T05:17:00.000-06:00Luke, for that matter we don't really pray that of...Luke, for that matter we don't really pray that often in homeschool. Maybe I should change that?<BR/><BR/>Julie, I soooo agree with you. Why should you have to get up and do the posterboard thing at midnight? I mean, I DO know about "responsibility" and yeah, kids forget stuff and that happens, but shall we say an IEP student is a whole 'nother ball of wax. Yes. I think we're going to say that.<BR/><BR/>Harry, some of these ideas on the "chat" were downright frightening. But I also understand there ARE some crummy parents and students. I'm not sure that education should have to even be mandatory. I think Grannies voted that in to keep these hooligans off the streets from 9 to 3. Then they voted for after-school "care" so they wouldn't have to deal with them longer.<BR/><BR/>For that matter...<BR/><BR/>For all everybody makes fun of Hillary Clinton's "it takes a village" idea, I also think we do lose something in the neighbourhood accountability. No one cares what the neighbours think anymore. That is why we have these associations to enforce things and also why, often, we have so much conflict in most neighbourhoods. Even nice ones.<BR/><BR/>Well, that's another post, too, and just my opinion. :]Happy Elf Mom (Christine)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15047347624037697311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-70945314237670985342008-11-18T04:55:00.000-06:002008-11-18T04:55:00.000-06:00Excellent post. I still maintain that if teachers ...Excellent post. I still maintain that if teachers were taught how to teach correctly, about half of the public school problems would be solved.Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12586139365230028783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-89267389907698865372008-11-17T20:59:00.000-06:002008-11-17T20:59:00.000-06:00Mrs. C., This was one of my major gripes with the ...Mrs. C., <BR/><BR/>This was one of my major gripes with the public school. When Marissa was doing poorly they could blame 1) their program and curriculum, 2) Marissa or 3) me. Guess what? Never, ever once did they blame their program. <BR/><BR/>Despite her learning disability that was documented on every psychological test that she has ever taken since she was 4, every teacher who had Marissa thought that since she has strong verbal skills she is smart and faking her difficulties. Do you know how smart Marissa would have to be to have pulled the wool over all those professionals. Only a genius could have figured out at 4 that acting dumb would save her all kinds of school work while she aged. <BR/><BR/>And me? Well, I just refused to do some things. Marissa made straight A's on spelling tests and, in fact, represented her grade in a school spelling bee. We didn't do spelling homework. Period. Because, it took Marissa sometimes 90 minutes to do her 10 or 15 math problems. And, I didn't do any project that wasn't communicated to me (as directed on her IEP) in a timely manner. I just wasn't going to the Wal-mart at 10:30 at night to buy poster board and stay up until 4AM doing a science project that had been assigned a month in advance. I don't know; I just had this weird idea that learning to be a good, productive citizen in our community of two (I was single at the time) was as important as learning reading, writing and arithmetic. So, my entire evening wasn't going to be centered around re-schooling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-87157313328859250392008-11-17T10:48:00.000-06:002008-11-17T10:48:00.000-06:00While in public school I realized that I tended no...While in public school I realized that I tended not to pray much, like, not even for lunch, so I made it a point to pray more frequently since people got all uptight about prayer being officially removed from the routine.<BR/><BR/> ~LukeLuke Holzmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799632321310461828noreply@blogger.com