Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
We're using Saxon Math for our 7th grader. We started him last year (6th) in Saxon 76, then went right to Saxon Alg. 1/2. He'll be done with that in a few weeks, then we'll start him in Jacob's Elementary Algebra.
Some folks don't like Saxon because they consider it drill and kill, but I like the way each lesson builds on the last, so that when the kids are done with the book they KNOW the concepts and operations needed to move on.
Saxon has a website with a 'placement test' on it to see where your child falls in their curriculum. I'll look it up and post it in a minute or two.
Sir Suzi Q created a worksheet for our ds. There is room on it for all 30 problems. He just looks at the book, reads the problem, then does the work and writes the answer in the block with the corresponding number on the answer/work sheet. I posted it to a homeschool website, I'll give you that too when I give you the Saxon site addy.
I have "The Cat of Bubastes" for when they start their Classical sequence with the "Ancients" in February.
Apathy and laziness is no reason to overhaul the system. So, when he asks what I would do to make the system more fair and democractic... my answer is that I'm not going to do anything.
Give me good news or my hair is going to start falling out.
Tell the liberal you would eliminate voter fraud and give the right to vote only to people who aren't on public assistance. Listen to him/her howl!
He's spouting the liberal party line. You are right on in your idea. In this country, no one is holding guns and turning folks away from the voting booth. Every properly registered voter has the right to go in the booth and cast a vote for whomeover that person wishes. If voters are too lazy to check from time to time to make sure their voter registration is up to date, that's their problem. If you move, register in your new town. If you don't know who the candidates are or anything about them, buy a newspaper or read one at the library.
This is the freest nation in the world with regard to voting, and has one of the lowest turnout rates for elections.
The libs lament this because they believe that every new voter is SURE to vote for them. If someone doesn't take the time to learn the issues and show up to vote, that means they are not interested, and I'll not spend any time worrying why.
Turn him from the Dark Side!
And I actually made a decent grade in the class.
Story here.
Man, those Iraqis really know how to vote. Of the nearly 11.8 million eligible voters in Iraq, every single one managed to vote "yes" to a resolution to keep Iraqi dictator/president Saddam Hussein in charge for another seven years. Not only that, but every paper ballot was counted before the end of the day! Meanwhile, here in America, columnist Jonathan Alter grouses, "Turnouts in American elections are routinely under 50 percent of eligible voters," and for the upcoming November elections "the numbers could get worse." And you can bet the voters aren't all going to agree on whom to vote for.
No thanks, honey; been there, done that, and got the degree 28 yrs. ago! You've got the same ideas, though, so get writing!
Here's the basis of my paper. If low tournout at the polls is not due to govermental interference, or voters not being able to access the polls, but rather due to citizens choosing not to vote, then the election process is fair and democratic. Those who choose not to go to the polls can vote if they want to. They have chosen not to. This distinction must be made. What citizens choose to do or not do defines the citizenry and not the system. The system is sound, fair, and democratic.
Does that make sense?
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