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Homeschooling Blog (Archive): December 2003
December 10, 2003
posted by Carol at
4:58 AM (Pacific)
My long neglected homeschooling blog.
Add yet another thing to my guilt list.
My husband has taken up an interest in woodworking. He's bought himself a few tools and he and the boys have taken to spending hours and hours out in the garage hammering together such wonderful things as end tables, Adirondack chairs, shelves and plywood weapons.
They have fun, spend time together and the boys are learning alot whilest not even realizing it. DH was talking to a co-worker the other day about their garage exploits and how he was "teaching" the kids to use a tape measure. This fella told him that if the kids knew how to read a tape measure then they were all ready ahead of about 50% of the people who apply for jobs at his factory.
He wasn't joking either.
December 1, 2003
posted by Carol at
6:45 AM (Pacific)
Yipes!
Its been forever since I've updated. Forgive me?
Boy#1 is almost done with 8th grade. We took some time and looked around online together to try and find a suitable high school program for him. We all agree that he needs something other than just textbooks. He likes the idea of video school and I agree. So far the only curriculum I can find in that format is Abeka. Price and content are both major concerns for me. Its spendy aprox. $1000. Now, thats dirtcheap compared to sending him to a private school. We checked that and its $7,000-$9,000 per year for high school. Content, well, what can i say? Its christian. Not that he (my son) nor I have a huge problem with that, its just that all he wants to do is take the necessary courses needed to complete high school so he can get into college. He doesn't want or need alot of preaching done at him. He told me, "Its not that I mind the bible stuff, mom, it just gets really annoying after awhile."
What I/we need to do is check out some of the secular correspondence programs that are out there for high school homeschoolers. I know there are several. IU (Indiana University) has a high school correspondence program. That would be very, very cool. Its REALLY expensive though. I dunno. I want to have everything decided and ready to go by Feb. or March.
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