Democratic "Get Out the Vote" campaign
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Warning, kind of gross pic on post #9.
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When my brother (he's 20) decided to start his own sandwich shop and had to take out a business loan and all that, my Dad joked that even if he completely fails, he will learn as much or more about running a business as he would have through college, and it'll be cheaper. ;-) Sounds like about what your husband was saying!
Democratic "Get Out the Vote" campaign
I'll agree with you wholeheartedly thre, Corin. I have seen materials used in 'Christian' homeschooling, and some are decidedly inferior. Even though we are devout Catholics, I don't use just 'Catholic' materials for our kids' education. We use some Catholic texts for Religious education, and our kids are using a Catholic Amer. History book which they read along with the secular text. It gives a good perspective on the way the Church progressed through the history of the US. But I would never DREAM of using that book exclusively and think the kids were getting a well rounded education.
There are a lot of kids who don't do well in schools because they are bored with what it being taught, or 'get it' the first time, and are bored with having to sit there while the teacher continues to go through it with the other kids. Some kids just do better learning things on their own!
Our kids are kinda quirky, but with parents like Sir SuziQ and me, they never had a chance, LOL!! But they like stuff that most kids in their classes were never into very much; astronomy, Dungeons and Dragons, computer programming, anime, science, math. The older two did ok, though I think our second oldest would have enjoyed homeschooling immensely. After h/sing three years, our youngest son will probably go to the same high school our older two sons attended. It is an all boys Catholic school which is sort of in the Classical mode in that they study a lot of the classical literature and really emphasize learning for learning's sake. Our daughter, on the other hand, is content to stay at home. I gave her the option of going back to school this year, to begin high school, and she said that sitting in class all day would be too boring, she'd rather do the work at home. She's more of the literary, artistic type, so I don't know what she would want to major in in College. Sir SuziQ is trying to convince her to become a Paralegal. Even if she didn't want to do that full time, she'd have a great skill to get part time work while in college and during the summers. Apparently they make good money. We'll see. But I can't see forcing her into a school situation in which she would be bored all day, then have to come home and spend all evening on homework which should have been covered in class, but wasn't. Plus she's not a really social person, so the whole social scene would be a drag for her unless she lucked up on kids who shared her interests.
Sir SuziQ HATED high school, mainly because many of the kids made life hell for the smart kids, so he had only a few friends, who he's still friends with today, though they rarely see each other.
Actually, that's not technically inaccurate. The phrase "United Nations" was used quite a lot in reference to the Allied Forces in Europe. Quoting from the Combined Chiefs of Staff Directive for Operation Overlord found at this website here, "2. Task. You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces." If you scan further down that document, you find "United Nations" turning up again and again. If I recall correctly, the radio address which announced the invasion referred to "United Nations forces". So, the phrase was in active use long before the actual formation of that (hack, ptui) august body.
Almost enough to make one invest in tinfoil, eh what?
Now if I can only get down the choreography! Gondor might not need a choreographer, but Camelot does....'tis a silly place.
I saw your response after I'd posted to Hair. I usually just read through and respond as I read the posts, then will see in a few posts that someone else had said something similar!
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