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So you’re saying your favorite day of homeschooling is the one where you don’t have to be near your kids? I get it.
You’ve been pulling back the bow for a long time. Letting loose the arrow must be exquisite.
Germantown Friends school is awesome partly because of its Quaker heritage … with Quakers often being very socially active. They also tend toward providing freedom to explore, learn, and become a well-rounded person. If I still lived there AND had the money, it’s one of the only schools I’d consider over homeschooling.
Since we’ve moved to Connecticut, we’re finding that the state is now wanting to start regulating homeschooling. It comes from a child (who was never homeschooled) who was starved to death by his (known to DCF to be) abusive mother a few years ago. So basically DCF goofed up in looking after an at risk kid, and now the state legislators want to come after homeschoolers to keep kids safe.
Yup. Makes perfect sense.
Now trying to figure out how to stop this insanity. Be grateful that you’re just dealing with AP tests. :)
Oh, we are dealing with totally intrusive regulation as well. In fact, not only did someone call CPS, but also two school administrators came to our house, unannounced. I invited them in and they talked to my kids about how great school is and how the kids are missing so much of the fun stuff at school.
My kids especially love the part about how the administrators told my son who has been taking violin lessons for 12 years that he could take lessons for free from the school orchestra director: “He teaches every instrument! He’s amazing!”
Penelope
Oh, surely Z would love to ostinato for hours as his classmates squawk, squeak, and tootle around him?
I remember when I left school at 15 one of the administrators tried to convince me to stay by saying I’d be _missing_prom_.
Christy, I remember reading your comment and not being aware of the state of Connecticut looking into regulating homeschooling because of the child who was starved to death. I just read an article ( http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/10/bureaucrat-subpoenas-records-of-homeschoolers-to-build-case-for-regulation/ ) published today that details the background and current status. In my estimation, it is government attempting to overreach which can be traced back to their own ineptitude in the first place. I hope the homeschooling parents are able to argue their case well.
I went to both the Germantown Friends and Uncle Bobbies websites and was impressed with both places. It’s easy for me to see why you enjoyed both and had a great day. Both emphasize community and support for individuals in a very caring and kind fashion.
I was especially impressed with the video at Uncle Bobbies where the owner (Marc Lamont Hill) describes his business, its origins, and why he wanted to establish it. I thought there’s more to this guy than books and coffee. So I looked around the website and found a link in the photos and press section to an article written about him and his business. I was right. He is a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University, a noted author, and social commentator. He has a very deep connection to literature. So for all the reasons above and more, his bookstore is and will continue to remain a success. Also, he is a great example of learning taking place outside the classroom and beyond graduation. As if we every graduate …
Why do you think you worry about your sons performances in high stakes situations? I ask with genuine curiosity. I am homeschooling my three children, but my oldest just turned 8. None have yet established a goal (or had one established for them) where they really want to succeed yet the path is uncertain and arduous.
Do you worry because you participate vicariously in the experience? Do you worry because you fear they will blame you if they fail? Do you worry because you fear that there will be no future opportunities for success or that their prospects will be greatly diminished?
Right now the biggest obstacle we’ve faced is navigating the Combine in Half Life 2 (which precipitated a fair amount of tears), but I’m wondering what might be in store down the road.
I’m actually taking the AP World test next week and I have yet to really look at a prep book or anything, and probably won’t until the night before. I guess I just want to see if I can pass it, and if I don’t I have the excuse of only studying the night before.
There is a PA homeschool group that offers dozens of AP classes online- Way more economical than hiring 10 tutoring sessions, I think I read $725 – $750.
You could sign him up for the class now- since registration just opened – and only hire the tutor for 1 or 2 sessions closer to the testing window next May.
http://www.aphomeschoolers.com/cgi-bin/choose.pl?class=ushist
Now that he’s got all that studying done, why don’t you have him take the CLEP test and get actual college credit?
I’m glad you enjoyed your day.
I just re-read my comment and thought it sounded critical, it wasn’t meant that way. I just meant, why don’t you look into CLEP. You may have a college plan that includes scholarships that won’t want him to already have credit, or you may be planning to pay for school yourself, and so save money with CLEP. Just a thought.
I hope you told Strath Haven to kiss ur @ss when they denied ur son to take AP tests. They are pretenscious and hippocrates
I went to a Quaker (Society of Friends) college. We have a saying there that I think you might enjoy: “Some of my best Friends are Jews.” Of course, it also works the other way (since there are a lot of Jewish students at this Quaker college, my husband and I were two of many past and present). “Some of my best Jews are Friends.”