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Boarding the (Old Fogey) Bus

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When I was a little girl in the late 70s, the yellow school bus picked me up at dark thirty in the morning and bounced me around bumpy country roads before parking at the “bus barn” — a large parking lot next to the high school where the kids transferred from their neighborhood buses to the ones that would then drive them to their respective schools.  De-segretation meant the district no longer had neighborhood schools. But that’s not what I’m remembering today. What strikes me today is the weird feeling I had each morning as I sat in my bus … Continue reading Boarding the (Old Fogey) Bus

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From Audie Murphy to Algorithms

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I’m beginning to suspect that my child is a mathematical prodigy — at least compared to me! Our second day of seventh grade started out much smoother than our first.  Whereas she likened me to the Wicked Witch of the West for starting school “too early” (public schools don’t get started for another couple of weeks in our state) yesterday, today it was easier to get started on school work.  I guess we had to climb over the mental hump.  Sometimes I think my daughter pretends to hate school because that’s what she thinks she’s supposed to do.  Yet I … Continue reading From Audie Murphy to Algorithms

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Let the Good Times Commence

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I’m not sure whether to write “Let the Good Times Roll” or “Let the Schooling Commence!”  Perhaps I could combine it into “Let the Good Schooling Times Commence to Roll!”  Well…maybe not. Either way, today I had a ball pulling out all the materials I’ve accumulated over the summer in preparation for my daughter’s first year of junior high. Challenge A with Classical Conversations is the road we are on with some history-based literature thrown in for vocabulary building and more imaginative exploration of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Tomorrow we will break out the planner and prepare for “our” … Continue reading Let the Good Times Commence

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Opining: Less is More

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I’m going to weigh in here on the debate raging in the halls of the Texas legislature regarding class size in the lower elementary grades of public school: the whole system is flawed and needs to be scrapped. How much money do school districts really need to effectively educate their students?  Does money spent equal educated minds?  Based on the drop out rates and test scores, I think not.  Public schools would do well to take a page from the homeschooling handbook and learn that less is, in fact, more. Jesus taught with a stick in the sand.  I can … Continue reading Opining: Less is More

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A sober calling

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Hosea 1-7 The day has been a long one, and I am weary in a good sort of way.  I had a great meeting with my CC tutors and feel so blessed to have them at my side, leading the way for our community to learn how to practice classical, Christian education. The Lord is placing a thirst for knowledge in my heart.  I see references to it everywhere I look!  When I see articles like the one in yesterday’s newspaper about the Texas law that allows schools to count failing test grades as passing ones, I have to shake … Continue reading A sober calling