tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255877501892467740.post3134172560471381721..comments2024-03-12T02:24:47.352-04:00Comments on Craft Knife: Voting for Homeschooljuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18141123092139829629noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255877501892467740.post-67261146400258078902012-11-05T07:48:01.862-05:002012-11-05T07:48:01.862-05:00I'm going to vote for Ritz this time, even tho...I'm going to vote for Ritz this time, even though I'm profoundly against further homeschool regulation. The regulations already in place would, if authorities bothered to enforce them, prevent drop-outs from pretending that they're homeschoolers, and I am NOT for preventing parents without GEDs from homeschooling; homeschooling simply isn't the kind of top-down, "information goes from my brain into yours" set-up that traditional schools are, and I am not okay with the assumption that adults who lack a formal certification cannot mediate their children's educational experiences. If they do a bad job, and their children are not receiving instruction equivalent to their grade level then, again, there are regulations already in place to deal with that.<br /><br />Anyway, parents whose children are in public schools have convinced me that they are in dire straits with Bennet, and I plan to vote for a person whose views on homeschooling I don't support solely to help the public school kids. But if Ritz fixes public schools and then starts trying to regulate my homeschool, I am going to be so pissed, and I am going to fight her.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18141123092139829629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255877501892467740.post-39323184536790892882012-11-04T23:20:47.384-05:002012-11-04T23:20:47.384-05:00I would seriously ask you to consider voting for G...I would seriously ask you to consider voting for Glenda Ritz. I'm a teacher who has considered homeschooling myself (one of my children has Down syndrome and the other is gifted). I know, without a doubt, that I could homeschool and do a great job of it. I also know (as do all teachers), that many homeschool parents do an awesome job. <br /><br />The problem is, at least in my area, many of the students withdrawn from our schools to "homeschool" are actually dropouts. They sign up for homeschool and never follow through with it. We're in a rural area with high poverty . . . homeschool is used as a way out of the schools without having any accountability. <br /><br />I personally know of several parents who have withdrawn their children for "homeschool" and the parents themselves don't even have a GED (and wouldn't be able to pass the GED test if they tried).<br /><br />I'm sure that most of the homeschool parents that you associate with do not fall into this category. The homeschool parents who make sure their children actually learn the material are not the ones that teachers (including Glenda Ritz) are concerned about.<br /><br />Thank you for taking the time to read my post.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05057542343605874606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255877501892467740.post-1313017411845320552012-10-19T07:42:33.478-04:002012-10-19T07:42:33.478-04:00I STILL don't know which superintendent I'...I STILL don't know which superintendent I'm voting for. I'm pretty sure that Ritz would be better overall, but I just don't know if I can bring myself to vote for her, knowing how she feels about my specific population. BUT I also voted to raise my own property taxes to support our county public schools after Bennett and our governor, Mitch Daniels, ran them into the ground and took away all their money, so Bennett's poor management is still affecting me, even if he is leaving homeschoolers alone. Ugh!<br /><br />I feel the same way about the narrator of the Little House audiobooks that you do about Jim Weiss, the guy who does Story of the World. On a positive note, I actually have reconciled myself to the Little House narrator, but only because Sydney is OBSESSED with audiobooks, constantly has one playing, and I've heard that specific voice so many times that I've just gotten used to it, I think. <br /><br />I'll try Story of US--thanks! That might be good for the road trip that I'm taking the girls on next month. We're going up the East Coast a bit, across Virginia and D.C., and I was thinking about how to get some knowledge of the Revolutionary and Civil War and colonial history into their heads without "studying" it.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18141123092139829629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255877501892467740.post-44652061176184127082012-10-18T22:13:53.757-04:002012-10-18T22:13:53.757-04:00sseriously. who do you vote for at all?
anyway, ...sseriously. who do you vote for at all?<br /><br />anyway, this is random, but you and several other bloggers have talked about 'story of the world' recently, specifically the audiobooks. we tried the books a few years back for one year and weren't too happy with them. i thought the audiobook might be a good/fun supplement + car entertainment. And can I say? I hate that guy's voice!!! hate it!! his cadence and intonation are just weird and grating to me. and the boys were bored. oh well. we did like the audiobook of 'story of US' though, have you tried it?<br /><br />(please do not dissect for grammar mistakes. they're there, I know. ;)kirstenhttp://kirstencan.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com