Regional differences?
Of course how seriously the parents take it would make a big difference.
Regional differences?
Of course how seriously the parents take it would make a big difference.
In reply to RichardSIA :
The parents were very anti-woke, extremely conservative and the "kids" now into their 40s are in no way prepared for participating in adult life. While book smart they cannot hold jobs or communicate with people outside their immediate family.
The folks I know who were homeschooled are some of the most "woke" folks out there now. Also wildly successful.
A child's success in educational settings is highly dependent on the teacher's LOE and the parents' LOE. In the case of homeschooling, the parent(s) is/are pulling double duty.
With that being said, my rant is with the whole "woke" term. It's stupid. People claiming to be "woke" are anything but. People using "woke" as an insult are also out of touch with society as a whole. There is nothing wrong with being aware that things aren't all sunshine and rainbows, it is not a bad thing that someone has noticed and is speaking up about it. To downplay their concerns/criticisms does not do anything other than make you seem like an shiny happy person. At the same time, being a cynical dipE36 M3 is arguably worse than being a crotchedy old man that wants liberals to get off his lawn.
Just don't be an shiny happy person. Seems to be getting rarer every day I wake up alive.
I was homeschooled from 7th grade on. I think it depends on the kid, I never liked people and was bored at school. Our county actually lost accreditation one year and we had massive snow that year.
I had 2 teachers try to fail me because I wasn't at school for a week and a half because the county didn't plow our road and the bus wouldn't come close to our road. One teacher told me that I should have walked to the bus stop......which was 5miles one way in literally 2 feet of snow and I would have had to do it in the dark. berkeley that.
The schools were terrible so it was a good option for me. Waaaaayyyyy behind on a lot of things like....48 states in the text books behind. This would have been about 96 ish
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Cursing a lot helps as well. - Me
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In reply to Stefan (Forum Supporter) :
We're in the same boat. My daughter was really excited to go to school for first grade instead of homeschooling another year. Maybe next year. On the bright side, my son started a kindergarten curriculum. We probably wouldn't have sent him for another year, so he's getting a bit of a head start. My wife does a great job teaching them, but it's exhausting and taking a toll on her.
Three years ago today. No reason to go into details, but berkeley drunk drivers. And Florida too for making the situation 10x worse due to how their state law works.
RichardSIA said:May be better off avoiding "socialization" with the feral and or "Woke" children of today.
The most successful young folk I know were homeschooled.
Yeah... NO.
Homeschooling can work, without question. But all of my kids' acquaintances that had the hardest time sharing, taking turns, or not being the center of attention were raised by anti-daycare "no stranger is gonna raise my kid" types.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
My Anycubic Predator will actually restart itself if the power goes out...most of the time. I have it plugged into a UPS battery backup to keep it alive just in case. It has saved me a fair amount of heartache.
Why is everyone in such a friggin rush on the roads. Got into my 3rd hit an run this morning, by some jackass in a VW Gti with super black tints and no exhaust system. Between slamming on the brakes and swerving, and it being such a light touch I never felt it. Got to work, big scrape on the bumper. Call state police, I have to drive 20 minutes to the barracks to file a report. Drive there, wait another 20, talk to officers, they tell me to wait in the car, wait another 20 min, they come outside, wait another 20 min for the report to be opened.
UGH!
Stefan (Forum Supporter) said:Dammit, thanks to the anti-vaxxers we've had to make the painful decision to keep our 5-year old home for ANOTHER school year. What's worse is that we were accepted into a local charter school that would have been great for her (it even shares part of her first name with the rest of it being one of the founder's favorite words). So even though we went through the entire process of having her meet the teacher, meeting the students/parents (at an outdoor setting) and she's literally scheduled to start tomorrow?
We just can't get around the fact that we are so terribly worried of her bringing COVID home and making any/all of us sick, especially after watching another family get sick with the parents still dealing with the illness 2-3 weeks later. As much as she NEEDS socialization, it ultimately doesn't seem worth the risk.
I really hope this doesn't turn out to be a mistake.
I just feel so bad for the time the staff at the school spent to welcome us and I really, really hope kids and parents avoid getting sick.
You're not making a mistake. It's not ideal but your kid will be OK. She's got parents who care about and for her who are doing their best for her and her education. A good school can (and will eventually) build on that but, that foundation makes a huge difference.
The doctor I need a referral from...is apparently not on my insurance. So I guess I need a new doctor to retroactively ghosts refusal to the insurance company. The health insurance/healthcare cabal is so berkeleying broken I don't, even know where to begin to rant.
Appleseed said:The doctor I need a referral from...is apparently not on my insurance. So I guess I need a new doctor to retroactively ghosts refusal to the insurance company. The health insurance/healthcare cabal is so berkeleying broken I don't, even know where to begin to rant.
It is only going to get worse, in my opinion. Somehow I'm now contesting collections that just appeared, from 2018. This is not shady, it isn't collections gone rogue, it isn't a hospital trying to steal from me. I was able to get it settled in full without any note on my credit, and without paying an additional dollar. It is due to an overly complicated system that nobody can explain to anybody, and is quickly becoming something that we cannot afford. I do not want single payer/socialized medicine, or at least I don't think that I do. But my wife and I are quickly coming to the realization that if she didn't work for a hospital, we wouldn't be able to afford our health insurance, living in a teardown home in the same town as the Hospital.
All of the issues with schools and such over the last year and half is a large part of the reason why The Dancer and I are still debating whether we think we want to adopt or not.
Main rant is that I'm getting really, really tired of dealing with our IT department regarding the new software I've been testing and writing work instructions for when it gets rolled out. At this point, I think 1/3 of the total time I've been assigned this task has been spent with the program not starting/running. The most recent (really stupid) instance? Last weekend, they updated everyone to the version of the program that I've been testing out. So in theory nothing should have happened with my install, since I already had the new version. NOPE. Get an error about an 'incomplete install' and can't even try and start it. And, as usual, the help desk can't seem to easily remote access my computer to figure things out- and despite having the direct email for the group that supports the software I've gotten no response from them at all.
Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Mr_Asa :
My Anycubic Predator will actually restart itself if the power goes out...most of the time. I have it plugged into a UPS battery backup to keep it alive just in case. It has saved me a fair amount of heartache.
Yeah, I'm gonna look for a UPS today.
Two people in my household were exposed to COVID.
From yesterday into this morning I was running a fever and vomiting. It's a crazy time we live in where I'm hoping I got food poisoning instead of the current plague.
The plague test resultsfor the family will be back in 24 hours or so.
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:Two people in my household were exposed to COVID.
From yesterday into this morning I was running a fever and vomiting. It's a crazy time we live in where I'm hoping I got food poisoning instead of the current plague.
The plague test resultsfor the family will be back in 24 hours or so.
Happy thoughts sent your way
Very minor, but still a rant. After almost two years my favorite restaurant is bringing back Sunday brunches.
How the actual berkeley can you be a lead of a team when you have no clue how the system works?
I thought I would never have to live through the hell of middle management in my field, but here we are. You have no goddamn business being my lead when you have no goddamn clue on what I do.
I am very tired and half asleep but brain is still firing too many neurons to go all the way.
I'm imagining a bunch of disembodied voices in my head discussing/kvetching about God knows what. It's like I'm back in the RXNC Zoom meeting I was in yesterday, when I was 3/4 asleep and waiting for the trigger word "tech" to wake me from my stupor. I don't quite hear what they are saying, but they're saying a lot of it.
Tuna kid 2 has decided that every night is temper tantrum night. He's eleven.
In reply to tuna55 :
My youngest liked to stomp her feet a lot instead of communicating using words well into junior high.
Ironically she displayed a lot of fancy footwork and ended up being the top singles player in varsity high school girls badminton.
So who knows?
I'm tired of being a reasonable person who decided to eat clean. Mainly my wife who does 90% of the cooking in our house. Funny though when I focus on a healthy protein/veggie diet my food turns out 90% better, yet I'm an shiny happy person because all of sudden everyone wants to eat my proportioned out food...
It is mind blowing that when the street in front of my house is flooded and looks like a raging rapids river and people still insist trying to drive through it. I guess the visible one guy on the side with a water locked vehicle wasn't enough of a deterrent. 
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