My coworkers are shocked and dismayed that I want to leave off teaching public school to homeschool my children. They believe that my actions are why the system is failing. Uhm, maybe I am acting the way I am because the system is failing–I hardly believe I carry the weight of all the blame.
Academic detention still sucks. But at least 15 students have already pulled up their grades to passing. Only 26 to go… (Passing meaning a C or better.)
It’s amazing that I can cry all the way to school and then turn it off and be fine in front of the kids. Then fall to pieces again when they leave.
Got to tell the kids today that everything smells way more strongly so I need them to take showers more often cause they are making me sick. That was an awkward conversation.
Feeling better than normal for lately. Maybe it’s the cheese. Mmmm cheese. Still exhausted.
Given many of the arguments I hear for public schooling, that manages to sound a lot to me like socialist arguments about partial capitalism being why socialism fails… That if everybody stopped being capitalist and put all their effort into being socialist/Marxist/communist/etc, it would somehow work out.
This strikes me as faulty logic with socialism, and seems like odd logic with public schooling. If the public school solution (produce a lot of people with a somewhat higher average IQ, but fewer really brilliant people) depends on having lots of unusually smart people, then it’s not sustainable — it does its best to prevent those people from happening in the first place, in return for having a much smaller number of really dumb people.
Presumably if public school is sustainable, you need to be able to do it with fairly average graduates of public schooling (with additional training afterward, naturally). If you need the very smartest graduates of public schooling to become teachers, then you need them to be enthused about public schooling, which is hard — very smart people are often picky, and public schools intentionally serve them poorly.
Um, you won’t need actual help/advice/etc as regards homeschooling for some time yet, but it’s a topic I’m highly passionate about and am always up for discussing – and my mother has a lot of possibly helpful insight about managing the legal issues from both the perspective of a parent and the perspective of someone organizing an alternative classroom resource for homeschoolers.
I have *every* intention of talking to you and potentially asking to speak to your mother as well. 🙂
I’m the same way about the crying. For the most part, I do not cry in public. I don’t like breaking down around strangers, I don’t like sharing my tears (I will tolerate a few exceptions). If I’m having a teary day for some reason, I will be teary on the way to work, be outwardly fine all day at work, then be a basket case again when I get home.
Cheese… mmm. I was recently given the descriptor “cheese nerd” 🙂
Yay! We’re big cheese fans as well 🙂
We simply *must* meet one of these days. 🙂
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A friend of mine posted this link to an article about homeschool, and I thought of you. Even as someone who’s not into kids (ie, me), it’s an interesting article. Thought I’d share. 🙂
Great article, thank you. 🙂