I was the one who asked about brushing teeth/baths as part of hygiene! Becky, when my kids were little, setting the table WAS educational. It taught one-to-one correspondance. "Here's a one fork for Mommy. Here's one for Daddy. Here's one for Rachael...." Or we had to count carefully to make sure we had enough. And even at that age, you could consider it home ec! Learning is CONSTANTLY going on. You CANNOT seperate it out!
Sorry but I would lie. To me there are laws of men and laws of God, and if a law of man seemed to be harmful to my family I would lie. Doing 5.55 hours of home school per day from 7 years of age is to me harmful. I see homeschooling like concentrated OJ, you only need a little and it goes a long way. School children are lucky to get 2 hours of concentrated effort lesson time per day, and that is still while surounded by distractions and not one on one attention.
Foreigners are like that :lol:! My dss had a Spanish teacher from Puerto Rico. I can remember going into the conference, and being told that he was "LAZY!!!" A very accurate assessment, but one few American teachers would make so bluntly, lol!
Trust me when I say there are soooooo many times when I hold myself back from saying what I really want. Not on this thread though but there are a lot when I want to say something but have to just walk away. I like your bluntness. You are inspiring me to be less held back.
:lol: I've noticed that Americans don't like to create waves. Oh golly I don't want to get anyone in trouble though! *hides under a bag*
I'm sorry. I misunderstood what you meant. I thought you meant what they were doing was cheating (the counting grocery shopping and such). Darned internet and lack of vocal inflection :roll:
heheh ahahahaa HEHEHEH AHAHA HOOOO HOOOOO HOOO! THIS IS SO FUN! Okay, now lets get this clear, if you use the kitchen work as education you should probably do some actual work with it... like for instance. Say I had dd cook supper, she would have to plan, the meal, purchase what we did not have and cook it, then clean the kitchen after for me to consider it a gradeable class. This would take several days of Home Economics actualy I knwo this because I used to take Home Ec in school and we did cooking, cleaning and taking care of kids , we had to plan lessons for preschoolers even! I don't record my classes though so I dont' really count anything other than the basic requrements as something I should grade.
Okay, loves. Here's exactly what I said. I didn't use the word 'cheat'. I do think they tried to use their errands/chores to somehow fill in for school work. While I wouldn't do that, I can't blame them. Every one of them also leaves work to do yet, just like we do some days, and I know how I dread rushing to get supper, left over school work, and whatever else done once we're home. If there's an evening class to go to, it makes it even more hectic.
You all know why I can hear those moms, right? Cause I've got my nose in a school book or I'm reading lessons of some kind! The zealousness never ends. They're all talking and socializing during class and I'm trying to read ahead or preview things! Lol- they probably look at me and think 'Look at her- always with her nose in a **** school book. Hey! Professor Kool! Put down the lesson books and get a life!' Lol!
Yes! I absolutely can see counting this. I can see incorporating going through grocery circulars and trying to find the best deals. ( We get 4 or 5 of 'em here.) Dealing with coupons, too, should be able to count for something. Another thought- when Jeannie wrote to her favorite actress I took that badboy in and showed it to her evaluator!
You have to understand our evaluator. He doesn't so much go by her work, he goes by how she presents herself. I once pulled him up for not looking at her work and he said her intelligence- or even lack of it- is going to come out as she speaks. Girl, that first time I took binders, books, papers- you name it! And you bet I pulled him up! With that letter, he said her cursive was nice. He didn't read the letter. He asked her questions, like did she believe the girl would write back? Is California far from here? That kind of thing.
Can I just say I would HATE having an evaluator. I have one child that I'm pretty sure would pick her nose and wipe it on his desk just bc she thought that she wasn't supposed to? Well, okay she's four so maybe she won't be quite as bad when she's 6 or 7. LOL
Or do the common for children thing and say "Ida know". or shrug when asked a question lol! I had my home ready for a 'check' a couple years back, had walls all perfect with educational stuff and schedule posted like a professional private school... no one came then, but I can bet if this law garbage keeps up they will be checking us out!
Lol- you guys have it way wrong. We don't even have to take our kids in, believe it or not. I had a friend who left her daughter home once. I wouldn't do that, because it's her evaluation! Our evaluator was my high school principal, which worried me at first. We've been seeing him twice a year for 3 years now. He has even given me resources for Kevin, to help him get employment and other things. Here an evaluator only tries to make sure the instruction is thorough and consistent. Each one handles the job differently I just happened to get one of the more laid back ones.
It isn't a problem if you have work you can take in yourself to show them. I was very surprised to learn you didn't even need to bring your child to its own evaluation. I think that's dense, myself. However, there have been times I wished I could have spoken to our evaluator without Jeannie there. And it's not about putting the child on the spot at all, it's about what the child knows and how that comes out in normal conversation. He might ask Jeannie how everything is going. He might ask her about Kevin. He'll probably ask her about her cats, since we mentioned she'd be getting them for xmas. There's no him asking her math problems or asking her to spell, or any of that. The most she has done for him is read a paragraph and count some coins. If a shy child came to our evaluator he'd just talk to the mom. There's no spotlight put on the child, not with our evaluator, anyway.
I would have been on the horn laying someone out! That's stressful, waiting for that kind of visit. At our second visit, the evaluator once again ignored the lessons I brought to show him. I plunked down in front of him a sample lesson from each subject. I said ' Wait! You never look at anything I bring in here. Here are typical lessons, plus here is the work she did for them'. I wasn't going to let him off the hook- if I'm stressing to be sure she's taught well, the least he could do was skim the lessons! I take much less now- just special things she puts together.
