Exactly!
Posted on 07/23/2002 3:25:06 AM PDT by TxBec
I have been thinking lately it would be nice to have a thread (maybe even a forum later?) for the homeschooling families, because you know how many of us there are. This would not replace us pinging each other with all the great articles we find. It would be a place where we could discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to cool things we find on the internet, and vent some more. I'm sure we all have found other sites with forums that we use, but since FReepers are such a cool breed, where better to start up a forum? What do you think?
Anyway, she was ok about it. She said that the one-on-one was wonderful, but that socialization was an issue and that the kids wouldn't be able to play in sports. That was about all she said. I didn't even bother to ask anyone in my son's middle school. I just pulled him.
Exactly!
they still get their taxes. I was never part of Impact Aid, anyway, so that doesn't apply to us...
If you don't know what Impact Aid is, it is money that the government provides to schools with a high number of military families. You would NOT believe how much they push this. Once a year, the schools send home forms to determine how many of their students are in military families and you have to, I repeat HAVE to turn one in. At least that was the impression they gave me.
That was why they pushed attendance so hard.......for the money........... so pulling my child out took away X number of dollars every single day..........
FOFL...good description!
Oh...we rent children...so if you're sick of yours on any given day, just send em to our home, k? LOL
In California all that's necessary (at this point) is to log attendance.
You have a choice in filing independently, joining a charter, or joining a private ISP as an umbrella.
To borrow Cheney's infamous phrase, "BIG TIME"
This is a big concern right now, as my son is getting ready to tackle High School and I want to make sure he is on the right track.
Just to pass on a Show Me state experience, I have a young friend (19) who was homeschooled his entire life. Went and took his GED and ACT, and got such high scores the local community college gave him a full academic scholarship. After he graduates here he's going toward pre-med as he wants to be a pediatric opthamologist.
This is going to be a positive series of threads...I can just tell. :o)
1. The Secular Approach...The idea..or thesis..of the Secular Approach is that everyone should be intimately familiar with the standard collection of classical literature in the western tradition-often called the western canon. This western canon includes the works of Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Shakespeare, Gibbon, etc. The Harvard Classics and the Great Book philosophy represent this approach. This approach highly esteems the traditions of western civilization. It is humanist in principle because it implicitly measures all things by human standards.
2. The Devotional Approach...This approach is the opposite, or anithesis, of the Secular Approach. Thi sholds to a smaller, more denominational canon consisting of religious and devotional literature, which may include confessions and catechisms, commentaries, devotional and practical works. The religious tradition or denomination (Reformed, Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal, Amish, etc) determines what particular literature is included. The more intellectual might read theological works and Puritan writings. Many of those who follow the devotional Approach will discourage reading outside the canon of their own denomination. They tend to withdraw fromt he secular world into their own private circle. They particularly fear the defilement which can come from reading much worldly literature, such as the western canon of classical literature.
3. The Religious-Intellectual Approach...This approach uses essentially the identical western canon of classical literature as the Secular Approach, to which it adds more religious literature - though broader than the denominational canons of the Devotional Approach.
4. The Mature Christian Approach...What we need is a mature Christian approach. By mature, we mean fully developed, with everything in its place, performing its proper function. We here present what, in our opinion, are the principles from which to develope an approach which is acceptable to God. Christians should step outside the immature process of bargaining between extremes, and into the real world of absolutes and of accountability to God. Christians should focus, neither on the intellectual, nor on the practical, nor on a compromise between the two, but upon the God of both intellect and of practice. A true intellectual should be someone who is thoroughly familiar with the Scriptures and who knows how to practically apply the truths of Scripture to every facet of human culture. Christians do not necessariily shun nor do they embrace other literature until they first determine from where it comes, and to where it leads......
Sorry for any typos...
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