I never really thought there would be much that would truly draw me into the heavy political debates and such. After all, the powers that be don't really tend to listen anyway. The people have turned more into sheeple. I figure if I can instill just a smidgen of logical thought in just one petition pushing person outside of Wally's World, then I've had some small effect. Unfortunately, it seems that I'm being drawn into this arena whether I like it or not.
Recently, there seems to be a growing movement trying to get purchase in America. We have people pushing for the President to sign the CRC which in my opinion, would be a terrible and unconstiutional thing to do. England did sign it and here is an article explaining how it has played out on the other side of the pond. England, Homeschooling.
Well even in America, where we have the freedom of speech, it seems some people are given large megaphones to spew their ignorance from. I'm refering to an article that has been circulating through the homeschooling groups, hopefully, so as to call us to arms, to prevent further stupidity from spreading.
This article offended me, but I'm not an excellent wordsmith. Alas, homeschooling doesn't need me to be the spokesperson as so many of the homeschooling community are very adabt at rebutting! Please visit Homeschooling on the Hudson to read a most excellent rebuttal!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Florida life
It's January, 2010. Wow... Time really moves fast as we age. When I was ten, I don't think I ever considered that some day, it would be the year 2010. Then again, I was born in the Year of the Dinosaurs... j/k
So what's been happening at our home? Lets see... recently, Florida has been experiencing crazy freezing weather. Needless to say, our kitties have been having fun discovering their first frost, first ice, and first snow! yes, we have actually had snow in Florida!
Homeschooling, unschooling, has continued on. Our oldest daughter is working in a professional position while attending college working towards her B.S. Our second daughter is in Early College and is soon to graduate high school with her A.A. Our youngest, our only son, continues to unschool with a recent taste of two online classes.
Per age, he would be in sixth grade this year. Even though he hasn't been subjected to the standard peer pressures of schooled children, it's been interesting to watch him grow and explore entering the teenage years and thought processes. We let him sign up for his two favorite school subjects, math and science, when he started to have some self doubt. It didn't take long for those two classes to re-assure him that he was much smarter then he was beginning to think! He easily aced the classes and if he had any real issues, it would be continuing to "attend" the classes when they bored him to 'near death'. Needless to say, it didn't take long for him to request to return to complete unschooling and get back to learning at his own preferred pace which is much faster then the online classes.
Per age, he would be in sixth grade this year. Even though he hasn't been subjected to the standard peer pressures of schooled children, it's been interesting to watch him grow and explore entering the teenage years and thought processes. We let him sign up for his two favorite school subjects, math and science, when he started to have some self doubt. It didn't take long for those two classes to re-assure him that he was much smarter then he was beginning to think! He easily aced the classes and if he had any real issues, it would be continuing to "attend" the classes when they bored him to 'near death'. Needless to say, it didn't take long for him to request to return to complete unschooling and get back to learning at his own preferred pace which is much faster then the online classes.
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