Posted on 01/20/2021 9:04:34 PM PST by weston
Middle school and up are the most crucial years, and even if people could work it out with other families where parents stay home one day each week to oversee the learning, it is doable.
Right? So these teachers are doing a few online classes from the comfort of their homes, then relaying to parents what the PARENTS have to cover with their kids and have their kids work on....and they still get their big fat paychecks. For a virus that rarely affects kids, and has a 99.9% recovery rate. The regular flu is more risky. It’s bizzaro world.
Working together with some other families is so helpful. Gives the kids time with other kids, gives each mom some time to herself, and it brings a certain synergy to the whole undertaking.
Agree.
And, now that people have had their kids at home, for much of the past school year, they can see how co-ops/tag teaming to teach, could possible work out.
I used to think a Grammy Brigade would also be helpful. Trusted grandmothers (and Grandpas :) teaching REAL history, math, economics, life skills classes, etc. And, retired folks getting to give back, and share their expertise.
Me too! I wrote out painstaking lesson plans and schedules early on. My youngest ended up doing Alpha Omega online from middle school through high school and loved it. Very flexible and I loved the teachers! They’ve been doing it a long time and have the kinks worked out of their program (all these schools that are trying to go online now could learn a thing or two, lol)
I don’t think we ever spent more than 4 hours a day in school. You don’t realize how much time is wasted in traditional school.
The entire conversation had so many valuable lessons, imo.
For sure, grandparents are a wealth of information! My youngest has some friends still in school and they are loving the homeschooling. It takes about 6 months to really acclimate to it... we struggled too at first, but my boys eventually loved it and were given a choice each year to stick with it, they always did.
When one looks at a situation like Monday’s insanity-fueled, retail induced short squeeze across the board, one must ask: who are the government officials that have allowed this to happen and what have they been doing during the time they should be regulating such multiple-sigma market absurdities?
Allow us to offer a partial answer. If you were Nancy Pelosi and her husband, you were buying call options in names like Apple, Tesla and Disney. That’s what a new disclosure, detailed in Barron’s, revealed late last week.
Paul Pelosi purchased LEAPS in Tesla, Apple and Disney and shares in AllianceBernstein on December 22, the disclosure revealed. In other words, it’s not just clueless retail Robinhood investors that are speculating; it’s also clueless politicians.
He purchased 100 $100 strike Apple calls that expire in January 2022 and paid between $250,000 and $500,000 for them. He also bought 25 in the money Tesla calls, selecting the $500 strike calls with a March 2022 expiration, according to the report. Those cost between $500,000 and $1 million. Finally, he bought between $500,000 and $1 million in Disney options, buying 100 calls at a $100 strike that expire in January 2022.
He also “paid $500,001 to $1 million for 20,000 shares of global investment firm AllianceBernstein,” putting his average price around $33.37.
Obviously, the call option purchases are worth noting - not only because they are leveraged investments and are far more risky than buying outright stock - but because the Speaker now clearly has a vested interest in the success of names like Tesla, whose trajectories as public companies can be altered drastically by government decisions.
Paul Pelosi and Speaker Pelosi’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment, Barron’s said. Can’t say we’re surprised
Mega dittos!
I’m wondering how the good guys could ever take back the school system.
And Lin said how many times, no problem - you can take my name off the court building there and give me my 1 million dollars back.
Ball’s in their court, lol.
I remember when my daughter started on the home-school adventure.
She was always so nervous....did she cover this. Did she cover that. Did they know everything they should. I kept telling her to relax. I assured her that the kids were well ahead of where they would be if they went to school....they worked about 3 to 4 hours a day, and it was all solid teaching and learning. No silly activities like goofy hair day, pajama day (well, we did have some of those when it snowed, but they were authentic), no lessons on how evil mankind is and is ruining the planet, etc. It is amazing how much they learn, and so quickly.
So, a couple of years ago she sent the kids to the little Christian school in the nearby town for one year. They were as flaky as the public school (almost). The kids spent all kinds of time on nonsense. My daughter wound up being more stressed about what they were not learning while it was costing her good money. After that year, she never again thought her kids were missing anything, and she rarely stresses about it.
Good for Kayleigh, but I still won't watch. They expect to get viewers back by teasing Kayleigh all day for a 2-minute hit with Donna Brazile countering? Not me.
You nailed it, Vlad!
That about sums it up.
I used to worry about that early on, but GA requires standardized testing every 3 years of homeschoolers. After they consistently tested above grade average, then I quit worrying.
My belief is that kids are natural learners (and later on, critical thinkers) and school teaches that out of them. And you can customize to the kid too - my oldest needed a lot of breaks and visual learning, my youngest loved books and workbooks. They could work ahead and skip things they knew, or spend more time on things they didn’t. The immediate feedback is huge, in school, by the time my boys found out they didn’t understand something a week had gone by and they were already on another subject. That is a really bad thing in math, lol. Other times, they were bored to death waiting for the class to all catch up on something they already knew.
More FAKE to go with FAKE Joe....
Half of Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers Are Fake, Created in Jan - Analysis Shows
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3928951/posts
Same here. I wish Kayleigh would have gone to OAN
Mike Lindell on Rush (Mark Steyn) now talking about this
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