I’m an educated mom, and trust me - I would be doing my son a great disservice if I thought I could homeschool him. Teachers are amazing.
Mme.Camembert
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My husband fell through regulatory cracks in Pennsylvania that allowed him to drop out of school at 15. His parents church schooled him (it was like a Duggar-style work on your own homeschool curriculum but held in the basement of a church) in NJ. They moved to PA and found a church with the same curriculum that would…
She’s engaging in “unschooling” which is the latest in the realm of homeschooling, where everything is child directed. You only have to learn what ‘fascinates you’! If you don’t feel like learning how to do long division,don’t! Just go to the nature center for the afternoon.
I used to have a friend who homeschooled her 5 kids. Prior to homeschooling, she was an elementary school teacher. I never saw those kids do any school work whatsoever. I commented on it, which is part of why we used to be friends. After the oldest kid couldn’t get into university and had to go to a junior college…
I’ve met homeschooled kids are are doing amazing, but I have met others who are not doing well at all. I know a woman through a friend who is “homeschooling” her kids, but she’s really not doing anything. She sits on Facebook all day and posts about how much she loves Trump, anti-abortion nonsense, and tries to…
Homeschooling, in particular,needs to be regulated a bit better. I read the profiles of the people who homeschool their kids for “reasons” and honestly, I feel terrible. If you can’t spell or even write a basic group of sentences, then how will you ever teach someone?
You forgot the choice for white people not to have their children go to school with Black people.
As someone who has worked for tips, fuck you, Oprah.
And what if, after the 4th or 5th little tip-let, they start getting paranoid they’re not going to find it all?
It’s degrading. Housekeeping staff are already working hard to earn a paycheck. Making them go on a treasure hunt for tips may seem “fun” to the giver but is really kinda cruel and clueless. “Oh, you’ve cleaned 20 filthy rooms and have 20+ more to go, can you find all of the tips I’ve hidden, whee!”
Exactly. The whole “tip treasure hunt” thing just stinks of “sing for your supper, peasant.” Marie Antoinette’s like, “Damn! Wish I’d thought of that.”
Caitlyn Jenner: just another selfish, rich, clueless white lady. She can go suck it with Susan Sarandon.
That tweet will be in the history books describing this period.
Caitlyn Jenner now believes that Trump has set back transgender rights 20 years.
I remember in Body Heat he has a bit part but even with that he acts circle’s around everyone else. Plus he was cuuuute. Now he’s just busted to absolute bits
My mom wrote a book on Yoruba syncretic religions (in Brazil, but she also went to Africa, Louisianna, and Cuba for research) and she said it was mostly accurate. Like, more accurate than the L&O episode about it decades later or any other Hollywood portrayal...
I’m an old (was an adult during the 80's. This was the very accepted, family-friendly norm to present the sexuality of a young woman on TV. She was a good girl (aka a virgin) being seduced by the dark side. Or she did a bad thing (had sex) and had a very bad outcome (got pregnant). Then she contemplates an abortion…
Looking back on it, you can see the red flag in Cosby’s hyper-fixation on virginity. For example, when Denise elopes and comes home, Cliff asks his new son-in-law if his daughter was a virgin on their wedding night. When the SIL confirmed she was, Cliff has this creepy grin on his face. (I think it was meant to be…
Off topic but I was just thinking about James Avery and how great a father figure he was for us teens of color. To all accounts he was equally great off set. I guess I just want to say screw Bill Cosby. Uncle Phil should get more love than he does.