Posted on 12/21/2020 3:36:54 PM PST by blam
“Just follow the stock prices of Abeka publishing out of Pensacola, Fl to see the timeline.”
My niece was looking at Abeka for her child. She was upset because some lib organization (maybe more than one) was targeting Abeka for being racist and was trying to wreak havoc for the program. I don’t know if they were successful in Abeka having to make changes or not.
I’ve known many foreign missionaries over the years — a couple of decades at least — who have used Abeka for their kids’ education. The kids were scary smart, and so mature and poised.
What? And allow a generation of patriots? Never!
“This could be a great opportunity for Christian schools to expand their reach.”
I don’t have kids, so can’t speak from experience, but to me it seems that churches in healthy financial situations should have a line item in their budgets to aid members’ children for Christian schools and/or home schooling.
We have budget buckets for foreign missions, and that’s always been a good thing. It was more important back when the majority of “heathens” were overseas. Now, it seems that those countries are more Christian in some ways than America is; we’re the heathens now.
Get the children here at home educated properly and that will help everywhere, both here and abroad. There’s no bigger mission field than America’s kids.
It’s over 90%.
That’s wonderful!! It’s such a great concept, and if it would take off, imagine the results. My husband has helped church kids with science and math on an ad hoc basis. Now that Covid has hit, he probably could connect with an organized group and do it on a more regimented basis.
The school system is so weird/bad. When he retired, he seriously wanted to try teaching in public schools. He has a PhD in Physics, and Masters in EE, but he was forbidden to teach until/unless he got a teaching certificate. (He didn’t.) Then you look at the true dolts who teach the kids and administer the schools, and it’s just fine for them to instruct children.
Testify! My wife home schooled all five (tough lady) and we have definitely hit the homeruns with four of them.
One is now working for DIA (French linguist), one is getting her degree in astrophysics at Mason, one is getting a degree in software coding (4.0 so far), and one is a professional nanny getting a business degree. The fifth wants to be a Marine and goes this spring to Basic.
I’m not quite sure how that worked out?
Poor and minority children often have no choice but to attend inferior virtual classrooms, and some are just giving up entirely.
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And whose fault is this?
The education establishment.
That’s amazing!! Congratulations to both of you. Actually, seven of you.
As a divorced dad, I put all 4 of my kids thru private schools and 3 of them thru college. All are grown and prepared to take care of ol dad.
I used a fair amount of abeka curriculum. Some good some just ok. As far as I know they are a privately held company, owned by Pensacola Christian College.
>>The school system is so weird/bad. When he retired, he seriously wanted to try teaching in public schools. He has a PhD in Physics, and Masters in EE, but he was forbidden to teach until/unless he got a teaching certificate. (He didn’t.) Then you look at the true dolts who teach the kids and administer the schools, and it’s just fine for them to instruct children.<<
If someone is qualified to reach college freshmen, then he should be qualified to teach HS seniors.
My local community college allows HS juniors and seniors to take classes there, and I availed myself of this for my kids, to give them a cheap head start on college.
No, my wife is owed all the praise.
I paid bills, she put sweat and blood into making them do the hard work.
“ In Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools, the number of middle and high school students earning failing grades in at least two classes nearly doubled”
At least the members of the teachers’ union are safe. That has turned out to be the whole point of shutting down the schools here. Neighboring districts have opened, some only partially, but the northern Virginia libs are really sticking it to the poor and minority students in the name of safety.
Maybe, JUST MAYBE, public schools hire idiots.
Not exactly. 75% of black children are born out of wedlock. The sperminator, more often than not, only makes sporadic attempts to contribute financially to the mother, but is often not in a position to do so--how much can a 17 year old boy make? So the mother quite often has to drop out of school and take a series of menial jobs. The exceptional ones find a way to get a decent education and then a good job to support herself and her child, but those ARE the exceptions. The rest of them go permanently on the government dole and have little intellectual development, often having more out of wedlock children with different men. I don't hold out much hope for the majority of such women being capable of home schooling, so they are dependent on public schools. So I don't want to hear about blacks being kept down on the farm by "inferior schools". Their own actions kept the majority of them from being in a position to achieve success and afford an affluent lifestyle by legitimate means. I was an eyewitness for a quarter-century to how this works.
LOL. Have you no sense of respect for others' religions? Even if many passages of the Koran mention lying to an infidel, killing an infidel, slaughtering them, refusing to assimilate but having a mission to eliminate their culture instead and all that.
A music critic once said Bob Dylan's singing reminded him of a cow in pain, straddled across a barbed wire fence. Maybe the first album, I guess.
Wow paying exorbitant property taxes AND paying for private school. Yikes...
One is now working for DIA (French linguist), one is getting her degree in astrophysics at Mason, one is getting a degree in software coding (4.0 so far), and one is a professional nanny getting a business degree. The fifth wants to be a Marine and goes this spring to Basic.
I’m not quite sure how that worked out?
You might want to take a look at how many business leaders and other prominent people are former Marines. Your soon to be Marine that you consider the black sheep might turn out to be the most successful of the bunch.
I don’t consider him the black sheep. Not in any way.
He’s choosing that because he wants the exact opposite of what he sees around him in the family.
He is the youngest and never saw the US Army side where I spent 22 years traipsing after the military flag. He only sees the 18 years serving the DoD as a translator.
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