One of the benefits of homeschooling is that young children can avoid excessive stress as young children. Academic pressure, separation anxiety, and the rush to school in the morning are some of the many things that homeschool children "miss out" on when they are educated at home.
As our children got older, I started to worry that our life wasn't stressful enough to give them opportunities to grow. While keeping up with state defined academic standards and useless school projects may be a bit arbitrary, they can give children opportunities to push themselves.
While I like my children to do hard things, I don't necessarily want to embrace the alternative reality that is created in a school environment. So, in the place of artificial stressors like bullies at school or cramming for a test on material they won't remember after the test, we've taken on challenges that make our children's lives more stressful in the real world.
These real world stressors take the form of foster care children who come to live in our home. The last three weeks have been pretty rough. With the addition of two foster children, we now have 6 children in our home: a two year old, three year old, 4 year old, 9 year old, 13 year old and 15 year old.
Our three year old son, Baby Bop, did not do well in the situation at first. He would scream almost hysterically when the two new additions would touch one of "his" toys which translated to every toy in our house. Screaming was followed by hitting and scratching. I felt like the farmer in the "fox, chicken, grain puzzle." Baby Bop and the two year old simply could not be left in the same room without constant supervision.
Now that we are three weeks into the process, things are actually getting to be quite manageable. In addition, Baby Bop is eating and talking much better (he has significant delays in both) and is hitting and scratching much less. My big girls have had to really help out while juggling school work and their other activities. We've all had to step up a level in our day to day efforts.
I'm thankful that my kids can work on hard things that will really matter ten years down the road.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Great motivation to lose more weight
I'm slightly overweight. I could lose ten to twenty pounds. I don't worry too much about it. I eat fairly healthy food, but don't exercise enough.
Mid Life Overweight Faster Mental Decline has a link to Overweight Middle-Aged Adults at Greater Risk for Cognitive Decline in Later Life. Wow. I don't mind the chance of only living 85 years instead of maybe 90, but I don't want to spend the last years of my life not being aware.
I need to figure out how to get more exercise with a knee that hurts now and then.
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Mid Life Overweight Faster Mental Decline has a link to Overweight Middle-Aged Adults at Greater Risk for Cognitive Decline in Later Life. Wow. I don't mind the chance of only living 85 years instead of maybe 90, but I don't want to spend the last years of my life not being aware.
I need to figure out how to get more exercise with a knee that hurts now and then.
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What should we teach our children?
What They Should Have Taught You in School starts with:
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Not everybody approaches education with the same goal. High school and higher education serve different purposes for each student. For some pupils, school is a direct path to a job. For others, it is a chance to learn for the sake of personal growth. Visit any classroom and you'll encounter students with a variety of goals for their education.
Regardless of what you want school to be, most people seem to agree that an education should set you up with at least a basic set of skills. Not a universal set -- no one expects someone who studied nursing to have an identical skill set as someone who studied accounting. But when you have employers posting jobs that say a high school diploma or four-year degree is a requirement, you realize they expect you to have crossed a certain threshold. Still you seem to hear frustrated employers and employees wondering aloud, "Why didn't they teach this in school?"
From not knowing how to balance a checkbook to handling a tough boss, many schools don't teach their students how to deal with basic issues they will encounter in their career. We asked employees and employers what skills they wish were taught in schools to see what they thought were the most glaring omissions. Here are their responses:
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The four main points are:
Communication skills
Personal development
Interacting with others
All things boss-related
Good article. Some food for thought.
(Hat tip: The Home Education Mailing List)
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Not everybody approaches education with the same goal. High school and higher education serve different purposes for each student. For some pupils, school is a direct path to a job. For others, it is a chance to learn for the sake of personal growth. Visit any classroom and you'll encounter students with a variety of goals for their education.
Regardless of what you want school to be, most people seem to agree that an education should set you up with at least a basic set of skills. Not a universal set -- no one expects someone who studied nursing to have an identical skill set as someone who studied accounting. But when you have employers posting jobs that say a high school diploma or four-year degree is a requirement, you realize they expect you to have crossed a certain threshold. Still you seem to hear frustrated employers and employees wondering aloud, "Why didn't they teach this in school?"
From not knowing how to balance a checkbook to handling a tough boss, many schools don't teach their students how to deal with basic issues they will encounter in their career. We asked employees and employers what skills they wish were taught in schools to see what they thought were the most glaring omissions. Here are their responses:
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The four main points are:
Communication skills
Personal development
Interacting with others
All things boss-related
Good article. Some food for thought.
(Hat tip: The Home Education Mailing List)
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A "Monster" train - 3.5 miles long
Baby Bop loved this:
More info at Popular Mechanics in Is Bigger Better? 'Monster' Trains vs Freight Trains:
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Earlier this year, Union Pacific quietly ran a record-setting "monster" freight train over its Sunset Route, from Dallas to Long Beach, using the 3.5-mile-long behemoth during a one-time test of new distributed-power configurations that may help make long trains even longer. Distributed-power units (DPUs) are extra locomotives that are placed between or behind freight cars on very long trains to help them haul long, heavy loads without derailing.
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To put this in context the article says most trains are about a mile long.
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
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More info at Popular Mechanics in Is Bigger Better? 'Monster' Trains vs Freight Trains:
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Earlier this year, Union Pacific quietly ran a record-setting "monster" freight train over its Sunset Route, from Dallas to Long Beach, using the 3.5-mile-long behemoth during a one-time test of new distributed-power configurations that may help make long trains even longer. Distributed-power units (DPUs) are extra locomotives that are placed between or behind freight cars on very long trains to help them haul long, heavy loads without derailing.
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To put this in context the article says most trains are about a mile long.
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Carnival of Homeschooling is up - The House Fever Edition
Amanda is hosting this week's Carnival of Homeschooling at The Daily Planet.
She starts with:
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It seems this winter is dragging out as long as it can! I know its still February, but its almost March and that means its time for winter to hit the road! Being the lover of hot weather and sunshine that I am, I have house fever! Which is cabin fever except I don’t live in a cabin. But there are definitely plenty of things to keep me busy waiting for this winter to finish out!
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She starts with:
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It seems this winter is dragging out as long as it can! I know its still February, but its almost March and that means its time for winter to hit the road! Being the lover of hot weather and sunshine that I am, I have house fever! Which is cabin fever except I don’t live in a cabin. But there are definitely plenty of things to keep me busy waiting for this winter to finish out!
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Homeschooling highlights from November 2005
Janine and I have been blogging about homeschooling for four years now. If you missed some of our early posts, you have missed some of our best thoughts. Here are some highlights from November of 2005:
Janine tells one of our favorite stories, a story that we have told many of our friends, how our little children were exposed to Homer’s Odyssey.
With School would have ruined that kid! Janine explains one of the reasons why we are so grateful for homeschooling.
Many homeschooling parents know this: homeschooling allows parents to Stack the Deck in their favor, and in favor of their children.
Janine wrote about one of her typical Unschool Days.
Finally Janine gives advice on how parents can determine if Homeschooling is right for you.
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Janine tells one of our favorite stories, a story that we have told many of our friends, how our little children were exposed to Homer’s Odyssey.
With School would have ruined that kid! Janine explains one of the reasons why we are so grateful for homeschooling.
Many homeschooling parents know this: homeschooling allows parents to Stack the Deck in their favor, and in favor of their children.
Janine wrote about one of her typical Unschool Days.
Finally Janine gives advice on how parents can determine if Homeschooling is right for you.
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The Thomas Jefferson Education Consortium
A couple years ago Janine wrote about A Thomas Jefferson Education.
Andrew recently gave us a link to The Thomas Jefferson Education Consortium.
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Andrew recently gave us a link to The Thomas Jefferson Education Consortium.
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It is important to make decisions
From Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list:
Decision is a sharp knife that cut clean and straight. Indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.
-Ian McKeithen
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Decision is a sharp knife that cut clean and straight. Indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.
-Ian McKeithen
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Reminder - send in a post for the next Carnival of Homeschooling
The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be held at The Daily Planet.
Go here for the instructions on sending in a submission.
As always, entries to the Carnival of Homeschooling are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
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Technorati tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, parenting, children, education, Carnival of Homeschooling
Go here for the instructions on sending in a submission.
As always, entries to the Carnival of Homeschooling are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
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Update on school spying of children via laptops
Yesterday I came across a news article about a school which was accussed of spying on children in their homes. A school loaned 1800 laptops to children. Software was on the laptops which would allow the schools to turn on the computer's camera. The school explains that it was only suppose to be used if the laptops were lost or stolen.
This whole issue bubbled to the surface when the school showed pictures of a student eating "drugs" which the student explained was "Mikes and Iks" a candy. The parents asked how in the world the school got pictures of things happening in their home, realized the school used the camera on the laptop and rightly yelled foul!
Here is a video with the boy, and his lawyer:
Wikipedia has an article with several links on this issue, the Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District case.
It appears there is enough national notice of this that it will be hard for the school to sweap it under the rug. But I still don't expect anyone to be fired.
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This whole issue bubbled to the surface when the school showed pictures of a student eating "drugs" which the student explained was "Mikes and Iks" a candy. The parents asked how in the world the school got pictures of things happening in their home, realized the school used the camera on the laptop and rightly yelled foul!
Here is a video with the boy, and his lawyer:
Wikipedia has an article with several links on this issue, the Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District case.
It appears there is enough national notice of this that it will be hard for the school to sweap it under the rug. But I still don't expect anyone to be fired.
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Good video about problems with the government public school monopoly
Dan Mitchell has this introduction:
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The Cato Institute’s Isabel Santa uses school choice as an example of why competition is better than government-imposed monopolies. The video explains that government schools cost more and deliver less, which is exactly what one might expect when there is an inefficient monopoly structure. The evidence about the school-choice systems in Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands is particularly impressive. Leftists always argue that we should have government-run health care because it’s what exists in other nations. Yet they are conveniently silent about looking overseas when other nations are choosing market-based policies and getting better results.
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to this video about school choice:
Isabel mentions homeschooling, though I'm disapointed that she is so quick to dismiss homeschooling as an option for most parents.
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The Cato Institute’s Isabel Santa uses school choice as an example of why competition is better than government-imposed monopolies. The video explains that government schools cost more and deliver less, which is exactly what one might expect when there is an inefficient monopoly structure. The evidence about the school-choice systems in Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands is particularly impressive. Leftists always argue that we should have government-run health care because it’s what exists in other nations. Yet they are conveniently silent about looking overseas when other nations are choosing market-based policies and getting better results.
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to this video about school choice:
Isabel mentions homeschooling, though I'm disapointed that she is so quick to dismiss homeschooling as an option for most parents.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
The really sad thing is probably no one will get fired
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home reports on a very awful practice by a public school:
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According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to light when the Robbins's child was disciplined for "improper behavior in his home" and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all students issued with these machines.
If true, these allegations are about as creepy as they come. I don't know about you, but I often have the laptop in the room while I'm getting dressed, having private discussions with my family, and so on. The idea that a school district would not only spy on its students' clickstreams and emails (bad enough), but also use these machines as AV bugs is purely horrifying.
Schools are in an absolute panic about kids divulging too much online, worried about pedos and marketers and embarrassing photos that will haunt you when you run for office or apply for a job in 10 years. They tell kids to treat their personal details as though they were precious.
Update: The school district admits that student laptops were shipped with software for covertly activating their webcams, but denies wrongdoing.
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I wonder how they can try to use a photo on one hand to discipline a student, but on the other hand claim they did nothing wrong.
Personally I think that maybe several public school officials should be fired. But it will probably never happen.
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Technorati tags: children, education, government schools, public school, public education
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According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to light when the Robbins's child was disciplined for "improper behavior in his home" and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all students issued with these machines.
If true, these allegations are about as creepy as they come. I don't know about you, but I often have the laptop in the room while I'm getting dressed, having private discussions with my family, and so on. The idea that a school district would not only spy on its students' clickstreams and emails (bad enough), but also use these machines as AV bugs is purely horrifying.
Schools are in an absolute panic about kids divulging too much online, worried about pedos and marketers and embarrassing photos that will haunt you when you run for office or apply for a job in 10 years. They tell kids to treat their personal details as though they were precious.
Update: The school district admits that student laptops were shipped with software for covertly activating their webcams, but denies wrongdoing.
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I wonder how they can try to use a photo on one hand to discipline a student, but on the other hand claim they did nothing wrong.
Personally I think that maybe several public school officials should be fired. But it will probably never happen.
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Spunky is back
I enjoyed her version of Cat's in the Cradle: Mom's On the Computer (or not).
Her version starts with:
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My computer arrived just the other day,
It came on the porch in the usual way
So many blogs to read and games to play
My child learned to walk, while I twittered away
And he was talkin’ for I knew it, as my friends list grew
He’d say I’m gonna be like you mom
You know I’m gonna be like you
And mom’s lost on the computer, lettin' dinner burn
Little boy wanders, he just wants to learn
When you getting off mom?
I don’t know when, but we’ll get together then
we're gonna have a good time then
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Go read the rest of her song.
Now when is someone going to make a video of it?
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Her version starts with:
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My computer arrived just the other day,
It came on the porch in the usual way
So many blogs to read and games to play
My child learned to walk, while I twittered away
And he was talkin’ for I knew it, as my friends list grew
He’d say I’m gonna be like you mom
You know I’m gonna be like you
And mom’s lost on the computer, lettin' dinner burn
Little boy wanders, he just wants to learn
When you getting off mom?
I don’t know when, but we’ll get together then
we're gonna have a good time then
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Go read the rest of her song.
Now when is someone going to make a video of it?
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Another John Stossel exposé
I always enjoy John Stossel's commentaries.
Here's a clip from his latest, broadcast today on Fox Business News:
Education: Too Important for a Government Monopoly
Here's another preview.
Looks good. Unfortunately, we don't have cable television. I hope it gets posted in its entirety somewhere on the internet.
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Here's a clip from his latest, broadcast today on Fox Business News:
Education: Too Important for a Government Monopoly
Here's another preview.
Looks good. Unfortunately, we don't have cable television. I hope it gets posted in its entirety somewhere on the internet.
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What is your political IQ?
Another fun link from my mother: The Pew Political IQ.
I missed two questions.
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I missed two questions.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Pranav Mistry on his SixthSense technology
My mother sent me a link to this fascinating video:
This video of Pranav Mistry is worth watching. The future is going to be very exciting.
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This video of Pranav Mistry is worth watching. The future is going to be very exciting.
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What would you do? Are you responsible?
My mother sent me this link to a cute four minute video.
It reminds me, in a small way, of the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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It reminds me, in a small way, of the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Does this mean I need to keep more junk around?
From Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list:
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
As a software engineer I find this very scary
I like technology. Technology has greatly improved the world. We are safer, healthier, more entertained, and better empowered.
But technology has risks. Software can especially have risks. I find this very scary - The Dozens of Computers That Make Modern Cars Go (and Stop):
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The electronic systems in modern cars and trucks — under new scrutiny as regulators continue to raise concerns about Toyota vehicles — are packed with up to 100 million lines of computer code, more than in some jet fighters.
“It would be easy to say the modern car is a computer on wheels, but it’s more like 30 or more computers on wheels,” said Bruce Emaus, the chairman of SAE International’s embedded software standards committee.
Even basic vehicles have at least 30 of these microprocessor-controlled devices, known as electronic control units, and some luxury cars have as many as 100.
These electronic brains control dozens of functions, including brake and cruise control and entertainment systems. Software in each unit is also made to work with others. So, for example, when a driver pushes a button on a key fob to unlock the doors, a module in the trunk might rouse separate computers to unlock all four doors.
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A 100 million lines of code is a lot of code. Applications with a million lines of code are considered large.
The problem with Toyota brakes, leading to the recall of 400,000 Prius cars is due to a software glitch.
There is a joke in the software industry that you never want to buy the first release a new version of software because it would often be buggy. There is wisdom in letting others use a new operating system or application to shake out the bugs and then buying a fixed version.
I will probably never buy a new car. I'll let others buy a car, with all the new software, and wait for a year to make sure there are no major problems before buying.
(Hat tip: Risks Digest)
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But technology has risks. Software can especially have risks. I find this very scary - The Dozens of Computers That Make Modern Cars Go (and Stop):
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The electronic systems in modern cars and trucks — under new scrutiny as regulators continue to raise concerns about Toyota vehicles — are packed with up to 100 million lines of computer code, more than in some jet fighters.
“It would be easy to say the modern car is a computer on wheels, but it’s more like 30 or more computers on wheels,” said Bruce Emaus, the chairman of SAE International’s embedded software standards committee.
Even basic vehicles have at least 30 of these microprocessor-controlled devices, known as electronic control units, and some luxury cars have as many as 100.
These electronic brains control dozens of functions, including brake and cruise control and entertainment systems. Software in each unit is also made to work with others. So, for example, when a driver pushes a button on a key fob to unlock the doors, a module in the trunk might rouse separate computers to unlock all four doors.
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A 100 million lines of code is a lot of code. Applications with a million lines of code are considered large.
The problem with Toyota brakes, leading to the recall of 400,000 Prius cars is due to a software glitch.
There is a joke in the software industry that you never want to buy the first release a new version of software because it would often be buggy. There is wisdom in letting others use a new operating system or application to shake out the bugs and then buying a fixed version.
I will probably never buy a new car. I'll let others buy a car, with all the new software, and wait for a year to make sure there are no major problems before buying.
(Hat tip: Risks Digest)
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Union teachers refused to work, and are then fired
This is pretty big news - Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them:
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A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system.
Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes longer per day, each lunch with students once in a while, and help with tutoring. The teachers' union has refused to accept these apparently onerous demands.
The teachers at the high school make $70,000-$78,000, as compared to a median income in the town of $22,000. This exemplifies a nationwide trend in which public sector workers make far more than their private-sector counterparts (with better benefits).
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I am afraid that the union will take Rhode Island to court and the teachers will get their jobs back. All the while the children will continue to suffer.
If Rhode Island is able to make it stick, I wonder if any other states will follow their example.
Oh, and check out the comments. At the time of this posting there are 254 comments for a post that isn't even eight hours old yet.
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
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A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system.
Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes longer per day, each lunch with students once in a while, and help with tutoring. The teachers' union has refused to accept these apparently onerous demands.
The teachers at the high school make $70,000-$78,000, as compared to a median income in the town of $22,000. This exemplifies a nationwide trend in which public sector workers make far more than their private-sector counterparts (with better benefits).
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I am afraid that the union will take Rhode Island to court and the teachers will get their jobs back. All the while the children will continue to suffer.
If Rhode Island is able to make it stick, I wonder if any other states will follow their example.
Oh, and check out the comments. At the time of this posting there are 254 comments for a post that isn't even eight hours old yet.
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
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The Carnival of Homeschooling is up - The Think Spring Edition
This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up at SmallWorld. This is the "Think Spring Edition!" The carnival starts with:
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Welcome to the Carnival of Homeschooling! I particularly like that this carnival falls on the Queen of all Carnival days: Fat Tuesday. While we won't be doing any Mardi Gras parading or masquerading around our house today, I just might be brave and tackle making a King Cake this year.
But I think what is on everyone's minds more than Mardi Gras, the Olympics, and possibly even more than my birthday (tomorrow) is, well, Winter. Seems to me that here in the States, at least, we are all marveling at the record frigid temperatures and outrageous amounts of snow. Or even that some states have snow. I've seen more gray skies in the past month than I hope to see ever again. And so instead of festive beads or figure skating or birthday cake, I'm giving this carnival a touch of spring. It really is coming.
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Welcome to the Carnival of Homeschooling! I particularly like that this carnival falls on the Queen of all Carnival days: Fat Tuesday. While we won't be doing any Mardi Gras parading or masquerading around our house today, I just might be brave and tackle making a King Cake this year.
But I think what is on everyone's minds more than Mardi Gras, the Olympics, and possibly even more than my birthday (tomorrow) is, well, Winter. Seems to me that here in the States, at least, we are all marveling at the record frigid temperatures and outrageous amounts of snow. Or even that some states have snow. I've seen more gray skies in the past month than I hope to see ever again. And so instead of festive beads or figure skating or birthday cake, I'm giving this carnival a touch of spring. It really is coming.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Why we educate our children
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Reminder - send in a post for the next Carnival of Homeschooling
The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be held at SmallWorld.
Go here for the instructions on sending in a submission.
As always, entries to the Carnival of Homeschooling are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
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Technorati tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, parenting, children, education, Carnival of Homeschooling
Go here for the instructions on sending in a submission.
As always, entries to the Carnival of Homeschooling are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
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Technorati tags: homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, parenting, children, education, Carnival of Homeschooling
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