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[YMZ PE]

I just bought a personalized backpack and matching lunchbox for Mini YMZ from Viv & Lou. I love back to school shopping! Between this and becoming the teacher's pet in the 40-hour HAZWOPER class I'm taking this week, I'm sad to say I'm like a real life version of Detective Santiago from Brooklyn Nine Nine.

 

[Supe]

I bought junior a backpack from Walmart yesterday. All other school supplies were done through an online deal the school set up. Teacher uploaded the list, click on link, everything dumps to your cart for checkout at a discounted rate. Done.

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

That's awesome that the teacher was able to set that up Supe.

 

[YMZ PE]

My coworker is planning on homeschooling his kids. Today he mentioned that he's interested in a particular homeschool course that believes only 13 books are needed for a child's development. Literally. 13 books read in their entire lives.

Given what I know of people who choose to homeschool, in previous conversations I listened politely to his somewhat predictable views on vaccines, Ron Paul and 9/11 being an inside job, but this time I couldn't help but blurt out "Are you freaking serious?!"

 

[matt267 PE]

My coworker is planning on homeschooling his kids. Today he mentioned that he's interested in a particular homeschool course that believes only 13 books are needed for a child's development. Literally. 13 books read in their entire lives.

Given what I know of people who choose to homeschool, in previous conversations I listened politely to his somewhat predictable views on vaccines, Ron Paul and 9/11 being an inside job, but this time I couldn't help but blurt out "Are you freaking serious?!"

You work with ozengineer?

 

[Supe]

That's awesome that the teacher was able to set that up Supe.

The whole school ended up doing it that way as an option. Not sure if it was district-wide or not, though.

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

My coworker is planning on homeschooling his kids. Today he mentioned that he's interested in a particular homeschool course that believes only 13 books are needed for a child's development. Literally. 13 books read in their entire lives.

Given what I know of people who choose to homeschool, in previous conversations I listened politely to his somewhat predictable views on vaccines, Ron Paul and 9/11 being an inside job, but this time I couldn't help but blurt out "Are you freaking serious?!"

I went to school with a guy who was homeschooled. His parents believed that your SSN was a massive government conspiracy to track all Americans and opted out of having one ( I didn't even know this was possible). He, of course, believed the same. Coupled with his intensely awkward social behavior this was enough for me to form a pretty poor view of homeschooling.

 

[engineergurl]

am I the only one who's curious what the 13 books are? now I want to know if I've read them...

 

[Supe]

The Anarchist's Cookbook was probably one of them...

 

[YMZ PE]

I am too. He said Tom Sawyer was one of them, which I thought was surprising considering it's an elementary level book. I tried to research this homeschooling course and came up empty. I'm starting to wonder if he saw a "13 books to read before you turn 13" list and misinterpreted the intent.

 

[Road Guy]

Homeschool is for people that dont want their kids to go to school with kids that are a different skin tone then theirs

 

[NJmike PE]

So...

 

[Freon]

I know several families that home schooled up until the high school level. Every one said that the kids need to develop socially and a public or private HS was the best place. And I have dealt with my fair share of "Home school" kids in Boy Scouts, don't get me started on that one.....

My only complaint with the home school advocates is that for every mother that is well educated (Undergraduate or graduate degree) and home schooling her kids, there are ten "barely got out of 10th grade" home school moms that are raising the next generation of meth-cookers.

 

[Lumber Jim]

and on that note, have you ever wondered when the transition occurred from having lots of kids to work on the farm to having lots of kids to collect welfare?

 

[YMZ PE]

I know several families that home schooled up until the high school level. Every one said that the kids need to develop socially and a public or private HS was the best place. And I have dealt with my fair share of "Home school" kids in Boy Scouts, don't get me started on that one.....

My only complaint with the home school advocates is that for every mother that is well educated (Undergraduate or graduate degree) and home schooling her kids, there are ten "barely got out of 10th grade" home school moms that are raising the next generation of meth-cookers.

You just stated beautifully what I've been trying to articulate in my head.

I also notice the fathers tend to be technicians. The kind of men who aren't diligent enough to finish school, but think too much to be a typical laborer.

 

[mudpuppy]

Homeschool is for people that dont want their kids to go to school with kids that are a different skin tone religion then theirs

Fixt. I can think of 4 people off the top of my head that home school, and 3 of them are in some rather, um, unique, religions. The fourth has a kid that pretty much had been kicked out of school and wasn't allowed back anymore. All of the parents are well-educated (in fact, all are engineers).

 

[P-E]

To me homeschooling is a waste of a parent's time who could be working. On top of that, they are paying taxes for a public school system they aren't using. A financial lose-lose.

 

[FLBuff PE]

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[wilheldp_PE]

John Green is a host of a show on Mental Floss on YouTube. Funny guy.

 

[Road Guy]

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