I was "unschooled". My family owned a bakery and we sold our baked goods at bi-weekly markets. I learned math by doing change in my head. Although, most of my day was spent either on the computer or watching the TV. When I finally decided to go to school (I was 15) it was a rough first semester. I eventually graduated with a 3.6 GPA with AP psychology under my belt.
I got a 1200 on my SATs and a general score of 92 on my ASVAB.
I don't think it was all bad. My social development did suffer and I'm not going to do it with my kids, but I think it can be very effective for children who don't learn well in a classroom environment.
OK, granted there are a lot of Americans on this site, and we sometimes have a reputation of being ignorant of geography and other countries, but I think most people have heard of Portugal. I mean, for goodness sake...the *pope* gave you guys half a continent...
From now on I will describe myself as being from Australia (a small country near New Zealand).
And I shall describe myself as being from The United States, (the big country all you small countries are next to.)
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I was "unschooled". My family owned a bakery and we sold our baked goods at bi-weekly markets. I learned math by doing change in my head. Although, most of my day was spent either on the computer or watching the TV. When I finally decided to go to school (I was 15) it was a rough first semester. I eventually graduated with a 3.6 GPA with AP psychology under my belt. I got a 1200 on my SATs and a general score of 92 on my ASVAB. I don't think it was all bad. My social development did suffer and I'm not going to do it with my kids, but I think it can be very effective for children who don't learn well in a classroom environment.
It's called, "the Principle of Retarding Lead."
Europeans have computers?
(a small country near Spain)
OK, granted there are a lot of Americans on this site, and we sometimes have a reputation of being ignorant of geography and other countries, but I think most people have heard of Portugal. I mean, for goodness sake...the *pope* gave you guys half a continent...
From now on I will describe myself as being from Australia (a small country near New Zealand).
And I shall describe myself as being from The United States, (the big country all you small countries are next to.)
AFAIK Oregon ONLY has mail-in/drop-off ballots that are then hand counted and verified against signature cards.
your mom's dead.
Just wanted to point out that if your heart has stopped beating it is impossible to breathe...so anyway what you said was kind of idiotic.