I enjoyed this line from Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list:
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Robertson Davies (1913-1995)
Novelist and playwright
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Pretty funny - why is the pool deck wet?
Dr. Helen reports on the Pool Mystery:
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Maggie's Farm: "These people were always finding water all over their pool deck and furniture every time they came home after being away for a few hours. They thought the neighborhood kids were waiting for them to leave, and using the pool. However, they could never catch them doing it. So, they set up their video cam and left. This is what they found out:...."
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Maggie's Farm: "These people were always finding water all over their pool deck and furniture every time they came home after being away for a few hours. They thought the neighborhood kids were waiting for them to leave, and using the pool. However, they could never catch them doing it. So, they set up their video cam and left. This is what they found out:...."
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Anne turns 100
Joanne Jacobs reports that Anne of Green Gables turns 100! About twenty years ago I went through a period where I read most of Lucy Maude Montgomery's books. The series about Anne of Green Gables were my favorite.
Our family enjoys the two movies. (If someone tells you there is a third movie, they are not your friend.) We've probably watched the movies a dozen times in the last couple years. They caught the essence of Anne just right.
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Our family enjoys the two movies. (If someone tells you there is a third movie, they are not your friend.) We've probably watched the movies a dozen times in the last couple years. They caught the essence of Anne just right.
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This week's Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival is up
This week's Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival is up at Hearts and Trees.
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A cool list of reference sites
Teaching Tips.com has a 100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of. Here are a few I checked out:
RhymeZone - Have you ever worked on a poem about programming, but couldn't find the right word to rhyme with Java? This web site will provide you lots of options. A word to the wise, it seems to only be able to rhyme words it knows about. It couldn't handle homeschool.
Twain quotations - Who know that Mark Twain had so many quotable lines?
The Dialectizer - Translates into other dialects like Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, and so on. I'm sure you always wanted to read Why Homeschool in Redneck.
There are a lot of other interesting sites to check out.
(Hat tip: Clicked)
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RhymeZone - Have you ever worked on a poem about programming, but couldn't find the right word to rhyme with Java? This web site will provide you lots of options. A word to the wise, it seems to only be able to rhyme words it knows about. It couldn't handle homeschool.
Twain quotations - Who know that Mark Twain had so many quotable lines?
The Dialectizer - Translates into other dialects like Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, and so on. I'm sure you always wanted to read Why Homeschool in Redneck.
There are a lot of other interesting sites to check out.
(Hat tip: Clicked)
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What will you be doing November 21st?
My daughters will probably want to watch next Harry Potter movie the day it comes out, November 21st, but I'll probably wait till Thanksgiving Day.
Here are some pictures from the sixth film in the series "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
(Hat tip: Clicked)
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Here are some pictures from the sixth film in the series "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
(Hat tip: Clicked)
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The Special Ed Bounty
From Dr. Helen - Do Schools Overdiagnose Kids because of Financial Incentives?:
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Jay P. Greene, author of the excellent book, Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So has a column along with Greg Forster at Pajamas Media entitled "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Special Ed Bounty." It's an interesting piece pointing out that schools have a financial incentive to diagnose students as "disabled" and then not serve them.
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The column starts with:
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Recently, we wrote a column here on Pajamas Media drawing attention to the problem of financial incentives in special education. Laura McKenna responded with a column challenging a number of our assertions. Since her column raises far too many issues to be dealt with adequately in a comment thread, we’d like to thank PJM for giving us the opportunity to respond with yet another column.
Our original column went over the results of an empirical study we had conducted, showing that special education enrollments grew much faster in states that fund special education on a per-student basis. In most states, but not all of them, when a school places a student into special education that school gets an increase in funding. The empirical evidence establishes that growth in special education enrollments has been fueled by the presence of these financial incentives.
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I've heard several times about schools that diagnosis a child as learning disabled, and then the parent can never get the label lifted. The school would lose money. Sad.
The Greatest Management Principle Ever says out that which gets rewarded gets done. Government schools are rewarded for labling children Special Ed, they are not rewarded for helping children.
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Jay P. Greene, author of the excellent book, Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So has a column along with Greg Forster at Pajamas Media entitled "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Special Ed Bounty." It's an interesting piece pointing out that schools have a financial incentive to diagnose students as "disabled" and then not serve them.
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The column starts with:
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Recently, we wrote a column here on Pajamas Media drawing attention to the problem of financial incentives in special education. Laura McKenna responded with a column challenging a number of our assertions. Since her column raises far too many issues to be dealt with adequately in a comment thread, we’d like to thank PJM for giving us the opportunity to respond with yet another column.
Our original column went over the results of an empirical study we had conducted, showing that special education enrollments grew much faster in states that fund special education on a per-student basis. In most states, but not all of them, when a school places a student into special education that school gets an increase in funding. The empirical evidence establishes that growth in special education enrollments has been fueled by the presence of these financial incentives.
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I've heard several times about schools that diagnosis a child as learning disabled, and then the parent can never get the label lifted. The school would lose money. Sad.
The Greatest Management Principle Ever says out that which gets rewarded gets done. Government schools are rewarded for labling children Special Ed, they are not rewarded for helping children.
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What good is "voluntary" service which is required?
Joanne Jacobs writes about a push to require students to perform service in Serve or flunk:
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Barack Obama wants to make federal funds contingent on schools and colleges requiring students to perform community service. He proposes 50 hours a year in middle and high school and 100 hours a year in college.
Actually, many young people volunteer voluntarily — often through their church, sometimes in political campaigns like Obama’s. Others work after school to help pay the rent, cover their expenses or save for college. In college, many students risk academic failure because they’re spending too much time working and not enough studying.
A Colorado superintendent, Cindy Stevenson, wondered how service would be defined. Who decides what counts?
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I agree with Cindy Stevenson. This proposal is fraught with problems.
But the fundamental question for me is why in the world should a government school be trying to force children to do voluntary service? Public schools should be focusing on education. Families, churches, and other organizations should be where children learn about helping others.
Oh, check out the comments on Joanne's post, there are 94 as of now. I liked Marshall's comment, the first comment:
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My local school has a graduation requirement that includes 20 hours of “volunteer” service.When my daughter ran up against that, I suggested several things she could do:
1) Campaign against school bond initiatives.
2) Hand out anti-CTA literature at school.
3) Start a school rifle team.
(and several others along these lines)
Sadly, she chose none of these.
“Mandatory volunteer” reeks of NewSpeak
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Barack Obama wants to make federal funds contingent on schools and colleges requiring students to perform community service. He proposes 50 hours a year in middle and high school and 100 hours a year in college.
Actually, many young people volunteer voluntarily — often through their church, sometimes in political campaigns like Obama’s. Others work after school to help pay the rent, cover their expenses or save for college. In college, many students risk academic failure because they’re spending too much time working and not enough studying.
A Colorado superintendent, Cindy Stevenson, wondered how service would be defined. Who decides what counts?
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I agree with Cindy Stevenson. This proposal is fraught with problems.
But the fundamental question for me is why in the world should a government school be trying to force children to do voluntary service? Public schools should be focusing on education. Families, churches, and other organizations should be where children learn about helping others.
Oh, check out the comments on Joanne's post, there are 94 as of now. I liked Marshall's comment, the first comment:
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My local school has a graduation requirement that includes 20 hours of “volunteer” service.When my daughter ran up against that, I suggested several things she could do:
1) Campaign against school bond initiatives.
2) Hand out anti-CTA literature at school.
3) Start a school rifle team.
(and several others along these lines)
Sadly, she chose none of these.
“Mandatory volunteer” reeks of NewSpeak
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Another homeschool blogtalkradio
Maybe this is the start of a trend. Yesterday I wrote about Dana of Principled Discovery launching a talk show - Home School Talk.
I've found that Kim of Relaxed Homeskool has also started up a talk show - Relaxed Homeschooler. She's had one show so far, and will have another on July 28th.
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I've found that Kim of Relaxed Homeskool has also started up a talk show - Relaxed Homeschooler. She's had one show so far, and will have another on July 28th.
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Absurd political correctness
I've gotten use to a certain level of weirdness. Lots of news events seem weird to me, but almost normal.
This one shocked me - Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'. From the UK:
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The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.
This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.
The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.
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I wonder if the people who wrote these guidelines even have children? My children have turned their noses up at traditional American food, as well as a variety of ethnic foods. Does that mean they hate all races? No! It just means that normal children will often turn their noses up any new food. It takes awhile to get use to a new food.
Hopefully the people in the UK will tell the government to stop funding such silliness.
(Hat tip: Best of the Web)
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This one shocked me - Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'. From the UK:
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The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.
This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.
The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.
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I wonder if the people who wrote these guidelines even have children? My children have turned their noses up at traditional American food, as well as a variety of ethnic foods. Does that mean they hate all races? No! It just means that normal children will often turn their noses up any new food. It takes awhile to get use to a new food.
Hopefully the people in the UK will tell the government to stop funding such silliness.
(Hat tip: Best of the Web)
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Good resource for learning history
A friend sent me a link to History Sites, with has links to a variety of historical web sites. I've look through several briefly and it looks worth checking out.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Another cool homeschooling carnival
One of the strengths of the homeschooling movement is the great variety of parents who take seriously the responsibility to educate their children. A sign of the vast variety is how many homeschooling carnivals exist. I believe there are four or five active carnivals right now.
Shez has just reactivated the Carnival of Cool Homeschoolers!
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Shez has just reactivated the Carnival of Cool Homeschoolers!
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Rushing to destroy families
Spunky found another instance of social workers destroying a family. The FLDS case has shown that Texas CPS was more concerned about what the parents were teaching the children that an immediate worries about impending abuse.
There are real process issues in how social workers handled a case in Colorado. There were allegations of abuse, and so the social workers tore an eight year old son from his parents. I find this reprehensible:
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Melanie says social workers kept pushing her to say her husband molested their son, insinuating that such an admission would set Josh free. They suggested that Josh having once kissed his cousins on the lips — as is the norm in his parents' culture — was a sign that he had been molested. As social workers saw it, Michael's habit of buying his son toys and taking him to the movies was "grooming" to cover up sexual abuse.
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A judge finally ordered the social workers to return Josh to his family. Two months later Josh still has nightmares.
One of the arguments against capital punishment is that in executing a hundred criminals we might kill an innocent man. It seems like social workers have this reversed. I don't know what the statistics are, but from recent news it seems like they'll destroy five or ten families to save one children.
Janine and I are foster care parents. We understand there are some situations where it may make sense to take a child away from his parents, but it should not be done willy-nilly, on some vague allegation.
Head Mistress is right, this is something as parents we need to start working to correct.
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Technorati tags: Child, Protective, Services, abuse
There are real process issues in how social workers handled a case in Colorado. There were allegations of abuse, and so the social workers tore an eight year old son from his parents. I find this reprehensible:
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Melanie says social workers kept pushing her to say her husband molested their son, insinuating that such an admission would set Josh free. They suggested that Josh having once kissed his cousins on the lips — as is the norm in his parents' culture — was a sign that he had been molested. As social workers saw it, Michael's habit of buying his son toys and taking him to the movies was "grooming" to cover up sexual abuse.
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A judge finally ordered the social workers to return Josh to his family. Two months later Josh still has nightmares.
One of the arguments against capital punishment is that in executing a hundred criminals we might kill an innocent man. It seems like social workers have this reversed. I don't know what the statistics are, but from recent news it seems like they'll destroy five or ten families to save one children.
Janine and I are foster care parents. We understand there are some situations where it may make sense to take a child away from his parents, but it should not be done willy-nilly, on some vague allegation.
Head Mistress is right, this is something as parents we need to start working to correct.
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Home School Talk is off and running
Dana of Principled Discovery writes about her ideas in launching Home School Talk, then shares a summary of one of the first episodes: How Does Homeschooling Benefit Society.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Looks like another good book to check out: Embracing Your Father
It is such a challenge to beat down my book stack. I'm currently working on two books. I finished off another one last week, while flying out and flying back.
Glen Sacks posted about Dr. Linda Nielsen: Usually It's the Father Who Does the Most to Make Kids Self-Reliant, Self-Disciplined, Self-Motivated:
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"Although most teenagers talk more to their mother than to their father about their social lives, they usually turn to their father to solve other problems, to get advice on education and jobs, and to get encouragement for self-reliance."-- Dr. Linda Nielsen, President of the American Coalition for Fathers & Children
ACFC President Dr. Linda Nielsen, author of the book Embracing Your Father, wrote an academic paper for the Journal of Divorce & Remarriage several years ago called Disenfranchising, Demeaning, and Demoralizing Divorced Dads : A Review of the literature. One of the paper's best sections is called "The Benefits of Fathers versus Mothers." It is excerpted below.
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Amazon has eleven reviews of Embracing Your Father, all eleven reviews rated it a five. It looks like another book to check out. I've started by asking to borrow a copy through Link, an inter-library loan system in California.
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Glen Sacks posted about Dr. Linda Nielsen: Usually It's the Father Who Does the Most to Make Kids Self-Reliant, Self-Disciplined, Self-Motivated:
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"Although most teenagers talk more to their mother than to their father about their social lives, they usually turn to their father to solve other problems, to get advice on education and jobs, and to get encouragement for self-reliance."-- Dr. Linda Nielsen, President of the American Coalition for Fathers & Children
ACFC President Dr. Linda Nielsen, author of the book Embracing Your Father, wrote an academic paper for the Journal of Divorce & Remarriage several years ago called Disenfranchising, Demeaning, and Demoralizing Divorced Dads : A Review of the literature. One of the paper's best sections is called "The Benefits of Fathers versus Mothers." It is excerpted below.
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Amazon has eleven reviews of Embracing Your Father, all eleven reviews rated it a five. It looks like another book to check out. I've started by asking to borrow a copy through Link, an inter-library loan system in California.
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This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up
This week's Carnival of Homeschooling at The Daily Planet.
The temperatures in our town have hit the high nineties. SuperAngel has a solution - ice cream!
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The temperatures in our town have hit the high nineties. SuperAngel has a solution - ice cream!
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What a difference a day makes
Yesterday we were ready to get back in the rhythm of life. We spent much of the weekend recovering from a our trip to a wedding. Monday morning we were feeling rested. Janine took our oldest daughter off to a day band camp. I headed off to work. In the evening Janine was still a bit exhausted so we went out to Marie Calendars. (They give coupons for birthdays; we have two this month.) Then about nine in the evening all three girls started feeling sick and throwing up. They kept us up much of the night.
Now we are even more exhausted than when we got back from our trip.
The girls seem to be feeling better, so hopefully we'll all sleep through the night.
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Now we are even more exhausted than when we got back from our trip.
The girls seem to be feeling better, so hopefully we'll all sleep through the night.
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Monday, July 07, 2008
Interesting statistics from Google's search engine
I was a bit bored and did a Google search for a variety of education related terms. Google returns:
1.5 billion hits for school
1.0 billion hits for education
26 million hits for public school
23 million hits for homeschool
13 million hits for home school
Most people still think of public schools as the place to educate their children. The most accepted statistics indicate that only 2% to 3% of the children in the US are homeschooled. Interesting that the ratio of hits for homeschool to school is about the same.
All the evidence shows that people are turning more and more to homeschooling. As the problems with public schools get worse more parents are willing to step into the unknown scary place where they are responsible for the education of their children.
I expect in another year the ratio of hits for homeschool to school will climb dramatically.
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1.5 billion hits for school
1.0 billion hits for education
26 million hits for public school
23 million hits for homeschool
13 million hits for home school
Most people still think of public schools as the place to educate their children. The most accepted statistics indicate that only 2% to 3% of the children in the US are homeschooled. Interesting that the ratio of hits for homeschool to school is about the same.
All the evidence shows that people are turning more and more to homeschooling. As the problems with public schools get worse more parents are willing to step into the unknown scary place where they are responsible for the education of their children.
I expect in another year the ratio of hits for homeschool to school will climb dramatically.
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Which is more important: the students or the teacher?
Schools were originally created to provide an education to the students. The goal was to provide children the knowledge and understanding to function as adults.
Teacher Unions often seem to see schools as a place for job security for teachers.
California Assemblyman Bob Huff reports on a recent senate bill:
"One bill, Senate Bill 1105 (Margett) would revoke the teaching credentials of those convicted of sex offenses, drug crimes and other violent crimes if they plead guilty or no contest. I was surprised to hear representatives of the California Teachers Association testify in opposition. Keeping sex offenders and other dangerous individuals out of our schools should be something we can all agree upon. It is just plain wrong to put both students and teachers at risk in our schools just to keep more dues-paying union members on the payroll."
Dave, who brought this to my attention, reports:
"I verified on their site that they oppose the bill and according to Assemblyman Huff apparently testified against the bill. I just don't get it. I'd love to hear their justification for opposing the bill. It seems like a no-brainer."
I doubt the union could justify their position. They just care more about the teachers, than the students.
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Teacher Unions often seem to see schools as a place for job security for teachers.
California Assemblyman Bob Huff reports on a recent senate bill:
"One bill, Senate Bill 1105 (Margett) would revoke the teaching credentials of those convicted of sex offenses, drug crimes and other violent crimes if they plead guilty or no contest. I was surprised to hear representatives of the California Teachers Association testify in opposition. Keeping sex offenders and other dangerous individuals out of our schools should be something we can all agree upon. It is just plain wrong to put both students and teachers at risk in our schools just to keep more dues-paying union members on the payroll."
Dave, who brought this to my attention, reports:
"I verified on their site that they oppose the bill and according to Assemblyman Huff apparently testified against the bill. I just don't get it. I'd love to hear their justification for opposing the bill. It seems like a no-brainer."
I doubt the union could justify their position. They just care more about the teachers, than the students.
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London student gets credit for swearing with correct spelling
Mind boggling - British Student Writes Nothing but Expletive on Exam, Gets Credit for Spelling:
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A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.
The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" — two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper.
"It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling," Buckroyd was quoted as saying.
"It's better than someone that doesn't write anything at all."
Buckroyd said the student would have received a higher mark if the phrase had been punctuated.
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I don't understand how a school can allow students to be so disrespectful.
(Hat tip: Best of the Web)
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A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.
The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" — two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper.
"It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling," Buckroyd was quoted as saying.
"It's better than someone that doesn't write anything at all."
Buckroyd said the student would have received a higher mark if the phrase had been punctuated.
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I don't understand how a school can allow students to be so disrespectful.
(Hat tip: Best of the Web)
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Do you feel happier?
This is interesting - Happiness is rising around the world:
"People in most countries around the world are happier these days, according to newly released data from the World Values Survey based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research."
Most news focuses on bad news - "If it bleeds, it leads." I have never read a headline saying something like "Couple celebrates their fiftieth wedding anniversary" or "Good Samaritan pays family's rent for a month."
Many people seem to feel life today is rough. The reality is we are so much better off than most people living 150 years ago. Back in the early 1800s people spent a majority of their time working just to have enough food and clothing to survive. Today the average American spends about 5% of their money on food. We have so many more toys than people could even imagine a hundred years ago.
I'd rather live today in middle class America than be a king before the 1800s. The access we have to medical technology provides us longer lives. With television, radio, the internet, and so on we have much better entertainment. We can travel thousands of miles in a day. Life is good now.
I'm glad the study showed people are happier. Many they are realizing just how blessed we are.
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"People in most countries around the world are happier these days, according to newly released data from the World Values Survey based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research."
Most news focuses on bad news - "If it bleeds, it leads." I have never read a headline saying something like "Couple celebrates their fiftieth wedding anniversary" or "Good Samaritan pays family's rent for a month."
Many people seem to feel life today is rough. The reality is we are so much better off than most people living 150 years ago. Back in the early 1800s people spent a majority of their time working just to have enough food and clothing to survive. Today the average American spends about 5% of their money on food. We have so many more toys than people could even imagine a hundred years ago.
I'd rather live today in middle class America than be a king before the 1800s. The access we have to medical technology provides us longer lives. With television, radio, the internet, and so on we have much better entertainment. We can travel thousands of miles in a day. Life is good now.
I'm glad the study showed people are happier. Many they are realizing just how blessed we are.
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Reminder - send in a post for the next Carnival of Homeschooling
The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be hosted at The Daily Planet. You have less than ten hours to send in a submission.
As always, entries are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
Here are the instructions for sending in a submission.
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As always, entries are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
Here are the instructions for sending in a submission.
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We're back
Janine and our oldest two daughters returned from girls camp about ten days ago. We had the weekend to rush though a ton of laundry, then Monday morning we loaded up and flew off to Janine's niece's wedding. When Janine and I got married sixteen years ago this niece was just seven or eight years old. My how time flies.
Last week was fun. Around the wedding we also spent time with family. It was fun to see some cousins.
For our daughters the highlight of many trips is swimming in the hotel pool. This was no exception. We stayed a couple days at a Marriott's Residence Inn and swam several times.
We returned home late Friday evening. Air fares are cheaper on July 4th. We returned home exhausted. Monday night our foster care boy woke up around midnight and wouldn't go back to sleep till 5:00 AM. Janine and I never quite recovered.
It is wonderful to be home. We cleaned up the house some on Saturday and did another ton of laundry. We've had a couple good nights of sleep and are almost back to normal.
I'll head off to work in a bit. Our oldest starts a three week band camp today. Our younger two plan to read a lot of book. Saturday the youngest checked out several Fox Trot and For Better or Worse books.
It is fun to travel, and it is good to be home.
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Last week was fun. Around the wedding we also spent time with family. It was fun to see some cousins.
For our daughters the highlight of many trips is swimming in the hotel pool. This was no exception. We stayed a couple days at a Marriott's Residence Inn and swam several times.
We returned home late Friday evening. Air fares are cheaper on July 4th. We returned home exhausted. Monday night our foster care boy woke up around midnight and wouldn't go back to sleep till 5:00 AM. Janine and I never quite recovered.
It is wonderful to be home. We cleaned up the house some on Saturday and did another ton of laundry. We've had a couple good nights of sleep and are almost back to normal.
I'll head off to work in a bit. Our oldest starts a three week band camp today. Our younger two plan to read a lot of book. Saturday the youngest checked out several Fox Trot and For Better or Worse books.
It is fun to travel, and it is good to be home.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up
Beverly Hernandez is hosting this week's Carnival of Homeschooling at About Homeschool.
Beverly selected a theme of celebrating the July 4th holiday.
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Technorati tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, parenting, children, education, Carnival of Homeschooling
Beverly selected a theme of celebrating the July 4th holiday.
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Technorati tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, parenting, children, education, Carnival of Homeschooling
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