Posted on 08/16/2010 10:37:52 AM PDT by aberaussie
Parents of middle school aged children may want to be aware that the national MathCounts Foundation has changed the rules for homeschoolers this year. MathCounts provides an opportunity for 6th through 8th grade students to compete in academic problem solving and mathematical competitions which may be of particular interest to gifted middle schoolers.
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Can you say HR6? I wish...
What is HR6?
I be done HS'in....but like to get the pings.
HR6 was a bill in the House of Representatives in 1994 that included a provision that all teachers must be certified in all areas that they were teaching. The representative that included that provision refused to remove it or modify it to not include homeschoolers. Homeschoolers made their presence known on Capitol Hill. We shut the congressional switchboards down for a couple of days. It did not pass... I wish there were enough people who cared enough about this issue to really get MathCounts attention.
The real reason for this is obvious. It’s that homeschoolers win so many contests, they expose what a poor job public schools do.
I have heard of the bill but didn’t know it by name. Thanks for the explaination.
I hope your other half taught the grammar portion of your homeschool. :)
Wat u mean?
bttt
I ain’t telling. If you ain’t able to figure it out on your own that’s just too bad.
Wow!
ROFLOL!!
I hope you know I was just playing along. Maybe I should have included a smiley or something. A sarcasm tag doesn’t seem to work for a post where you are just joking around.
I can’t stand to hear people use the word “ain’t”. My husband uses horrible grammar just to irritate me. I tell him he can use all the bad grammar he wants after I am finished teaching the English language to my children. They pick up bad habits from their daddy.
Yes, kids are like Mockingbirds...
Funny story....when my oldest was around 3 or 4...we were in the backyard. I was on the lawn, and she was in the garden playing around. I thought I heard her say "dammit"....Yikes!!
I asked her to repeat what she said..and sure enough she had said it. Could not for the life of me figure out where see had picked that up....We didn't talk like that, and no one around her did either.
One day I noticed while watching..."Star Trek" with her ( She liked the show..as did I )..they said "dammit" now and again...
Of course she had no idea...that she shouldn't talk like that. And of course we corrected that!! Ha!!
Take Care...you are doing a wonderful thing with your children.
Lol kids are funny. My 3 year old daughter has just started saying “I am do degradatated”. She heard it on the movie “Little Women” with Wynona Rider(sp?). The youngest daughter on the movie is always making up big words. I asked my daughter what “degradatated” meant and she said “it means I want my daddy”. Lol!
That should read SO degradatated.
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