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ElyBoy Super Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:34 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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Hey Cary and Lester.
Dimitri first has to go find a girl that is willing to be kind of like a "Taliban" type of Wife.
I'm not sure if Dimitri will make her wear a mahram or not, but the rest of the chores come right out of the Taliban handbook.
Then he can start figuring on homeschooling.
Hey D., there is an idea.
Go to Afghanistan, and bring home a nice Taliban Bride.
Except for the lack of teeth, those gals are pretty good looking, don't speak English, which would be a big plus for you, and do what they are told to do.
Eric
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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Taliban wife? God no. I do not need one. I want a normal wife. Since when saying one wouldn't mind a stay at home wife makes him a Taliban?
Makes you a male chauvinistic pig according to the feminists but that is about it. Doesn't make you a Taliban.
My future wife who ever she may be can do what she pleases but if I am making enough to support the family I'd be giving her the option of staying home with the kids. There is nothing wrong with that unless your mind has been brainwashed by feminists.
Cary,
Don't think I'd be marrying a rich girl. Last rich girl (family money) girl I dated thought that it was a guys job to let a girl do as she pleased. I told her that I'd rather never date another girl then date her again. Kinda ended the relationship after that.
And before the comments start about me being "controlling" like a Taliban, none of you would have acted any differently if you were in my shoes. What she suggested was crossing the line.
Dimitri
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OntheLasGallinas Super Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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D,
I was lucky, I found a good one. She was raised on a ranch and loves that lifestyle.
Cary
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rdncktink Super Member
Joined: Mar 02, 2007 Posts: 476 Location: Hwaseong, South Korea
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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Back up the taliban truck there. What is wrong with wanting the wife to stay home. My mother stayed home and raised me. I loved it. It was great having the dad come home at the end of the day to say how things were at work. And mom taking care of the house. I would LOVE to find the guy that gave a s*&t enough to let me stay home and take care of the kids. That worked hard enough and cared enough about the family that I didn't have to work. But then again it would be my choice. Didn't my mother's generation fight so that we had the choice. Just because my choice is to stay at home and not work for money doesn't make it any less. Being a parent is a full time job so why in gods name do I want another one. And if I was to home school them that would just be another part of my job as a wife and mother. And cooking can be educational as well.
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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Tink,
Want to move to Canada?
Dimitri
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lesterg3 Super Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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D, that was all tongue in cheek, just poking ya.
My mom worked all of her life, my wife hasn't.
When the kids left the nest she decided that she wanted to work. But, it was her decision.
And now that I can't, I try to take care of her as well as she took care of me.
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sniper Super Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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One of my complaints with the home schooling "system" is the seeming lack of useful information passed along and/or quantification of what is learned.
Let's face it. The world is a competitive, even to say, a cutthroat place. Kids that aren't prepared for that, as well as having solid moral values that they have learned at home, in addition to being well educated are destined to take their places as dissatisfied underachievers and/or welfare recipients. (I DESERVE more!)
I asked one young man I knew what he and his siblings did in their homeschooling situation. How do they determine what they learn? (tests, etc.) He said "Uh, well, we have "life experience " notebooks that we keep." I'm sure there was more, but his answer made me a bit uneasy.
There may be persons who are much more capable of teaching their children than the most dedicated educational system employee, but not all are able, and if not, that will be to the great disadvantage of the chlildren.
Let's face it, the educational system of almost any country is dedicated to one thing. Conformity. In most cases, it seems the three most feared things by educators are Initiative, Intelligence, and Imagination. The so-called "teacher's unions" have fought significant change and improvement successfully for years.
Homeschool situations can produce excellent students, as does the public school system, maybe in spite of rather than because of the situation.
My kids all survived the public schol system, in a couple of cases because my wife and I would not let the system steamroller them. I wish I had learned to do it sooner.
Social interaction in a public school is often less than desirable, due to the necessity of catering to the "dumb class", the fear of administrators of offending students or parents, and the fact that schools today seem to be a warehousing facility for miscreants, ne'er do wells, and others that negatively affect (dumb down) the educational process.
I think most will ageree it is a rough world, and those kids who are best prepared, whether at home, or in a public school will be more likely to become good people and contributing members of whatever society they belong to. I think that is maybe what it is all about.
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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sniper wrote: |
How do they determine what they learn? (tests, etc.) |
Yes well I'm talking about making up my own curriculum for the kids as we'd be "going along" with a few goals in mind already on what they should be learning.
Something alittle better then what I had went through in school, or what I see being done in school today.
Dimitri
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ElyBoy Super Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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In Minnesota D., the State makes out the curriculum, and homeschool progress is checked quite often by actual Teachers.
I would think that Canada has the same standards or you folks would be in a real mess otherwise.
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Vince Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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ElyBoy wrote: |
In Minnesota D., the State makes out the curriculum, and homeschool progress is checked quite often by actual Teachers.
I would think that Canada has the same standards or you folks would be in a real mess otherwise.
Eric |
It is the same here in Australia Eric. The Education Department is happy for you to teach your kids at home, so long as you follow the curriculum and meet the goals.
If you choose to exceed the goals, that is well and good, but at the end of the teaching phase, it is my understanding that the kids must still sit the relevant exams.
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lesterg3 Super Member
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:36 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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Frankly, it is not too difficult to exceed the goals.
We get done with the normal curriculum in about three hours, and then we go on for a couple more hours with extended studies.
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: Homeschooling? |
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lesterg3 wrote: |
Frankly, it is not too difficult to exceed the goals. |
So true, and that is my idea. After all yes you must fallow the curriculum that the schools use in classrooms in schools here.
However the one thing that has gotten my mind on Homeschooling is the fact I was given a weeks worth of homework and class work to do in Grade 7 (or was it 8?, ether one or the other only spent a year at that school always for half of both grades) after I broke my wrist and I took a week off. I spent the first day I took off to do the work the teacher assigned and after I got back to school she said I finished it successfully.
That made me kind of "ticked" at the school system, mainly cause I was about 12-13 and I had done a weeks worth of work supposedly in a day.
Not to say I'd want to rush my kids through doing their work that fast, but if the curriculum can be taught in 3 days a week the other 2 days can be to advance their knowledge and understanding of the world.
Dimitri
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