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Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 6:16 pm
One of my relatives, a young man, shared my enthusiasm for the USN. He took the screening tests preliminary to enlisting a few days ago and got the results today. According to his scores he's functionally illiterate.
His parents homeschooled him and he passed all the tests the state requires for a high school diploma. I know the proctors, relatives of mine. I'm sure they didn't want to "embarrass" anyone by flunking him.
He let me know about all this while he was in transit to another relative in California. She's a school teacher there. We'll get the boy fixed up.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 6:17 pm
Wish him luck from down under.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 6:23 pm
Home school defeciency??? Oh Lord!
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 6:31 pm
Home schooling can actually work out well, provided the parents are dedicated and prepared.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 6:39 pm
(March 14, 2019 at 6:37 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (March 14, 2019 at 6:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Home schooling can actually work out well, provided the parents are dedicated and prepared.
Boru
But when it is done simply to avoid exposing children to "unholy" ideas you get folks who aren't qualified to dig ditches.
No argument.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson