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It's good to see this stuff. Truthfully, though, I'm not too surprised. I was homeschooled for the majority of my grade-school life, except for a brief stint in four separate public schools in fourth grade. Alabama and Tennessee were absolute cakewalks, California was OK (loved the scheduled recess times, though), but Florida...Florida was by far the most difficult public school I ever went to. Loads of homework in math and social studies. They take it pretty seriously over there, I can truly attest to that.

Thanks for your thoughtful post, Future Snake Eater. Yes, FL very much supports homeschooling, but, it IS tough.

I was at a Barnes and Noble awhile ago and outside, a little boy was talking to his dad and his dad's adult friends, and one friend asked the boy:

"SO, which state has harder schools? Florida or New York?"
At that point, the other adults stopped whatever they were doing for a moment and looked at this boy who kept eating his brownie. After tihs very noticable pause from the entire adult group, one guy then said to the boy, "WHAT?? FLorida is harder? Are you sure? In what way?"

And the little kid started to tell him: "Here you have to do more math, and explain it..."

I realized this little kid was trying to explain to these people the FCAT type of math questions, which are not answered by: close your eyes and bubble something in. You have to show the work. You have to be ABLE to demonstrate what you claim.

Well, suffice to say: these adult guys were aghast that the little boy had no difficulty in choosing FL as the place with higher standards.

Finally, this is a true story. It was very entertaining for me, a FL teacher, to watch this episode and overhear what was being said by the little boy and then see the shocked looks of the adults, as if the little boy had said a dirty word or something. Truly, it was very amusing. :)

I meant: Thanks for your thoughtful post, Future Snake Eater. Yes, FL very much supports homeschooling, and, it IS tough in FL public schools.

I was at a Barnes and Noble awhile ago and outside, a little boy was talking to his dad and his dad's adult friends, and one friend asked the boy:

"SO, which state has harder schools? Florida or New York?"
At that point, the other adults stopped whatever they were doing for a moment and looked at this boy who kept eating his brownie. After tihs very noticable pause from the entire adult group, one guy then said to the boy, "WHAT?? FLorida is harder? Are you sure? In what way?"

And the little kid started to tell him: "Here you have to do more math, and explain it..."

I realized this little kid was trying to explain to these people the FCAT type of math questions, which are not answered by: close your eyes and bubble something in. You have to show the work. You have to be ABLE to demonstrate what you claim.

Well, suffice to say: these adult guys were aghast that the little boy had no difficulty in choosing FL as the place with higher standards.

Finally, this is a true story. It was very entertaining for me, a FL teacher, to watch this episode and overhear what was being said by the little boy and then see the shocked looks of the adults, as if the little boy had said a dirty word or something. Truly, it was very amusing. :)

I meant: Thanks for your thoughtful post, Future Snake Eater. Yes, FL very much supports homeschooling, and, it IS tough in FL public schools.

I was at a Barnes and Noble awhile ago and outside, a little boy was talking to his dad and his dad's adult friends, and one friend asked the boy:

"SO, which state has harder schools? Florida or New York?"

And the little boy said: "Oh, Florida is MUCH harder."

At that point, the other adults stopped whatever they were doing for a moment and looked at this boy who kept eating his brownie. After tihs very noticable pause from the entire adult group, one guy then said to the boy, "WHAT?? FLorida is harder? Are you sure? In what way?"

And the little kid started to tell him: "Here you have to do more math, and explain it..."

I realized this little kid was trying to explain to these people the FCAT type of math questions, which are not answered by: close your eyes and bubble something in. You have to show the work. You have to be ABLE to demonstrate what you claim.

Well, suffice to say: these adult guys were aghast that the little boy had no difficulty in choosing FL as the place with higher standards.

Finally, this is a true story. It was very entertaining for me, a FL teacher, to watch this episode and overhear what was being said by the little boy and then see the shocked looks of the adults, as if the little boy had said a dirty word or something. Truly, it was very amusing. :)