My husband's sister homeschooled her kids - except that she and her husband are very much on the slower end of the bell curve so it came out like unschooling. End result: one 23 yo nephew, who can't pass his GED, but does have a job at a Payless shoe store where, after a year, he's been promoted to a position where he is "allowed to talk to the customers"! His sister does have her GED, and just passed a class at community college. Oh - she did struggle at first, because her mother "didn't realize you needed to type/use computers," and had never let her near a keyboard. I think the stork dropped my mathematically gifted husband off at the wrong house!
WEll, as the parent of a freshman. There are scholarships, but if you get a $20,000 a year scholarship, your family will be taking out loans for the other 20 thou, and at least $80,000 in debt.
One of my son's friend got a very nice scholarship to MIT, but didn't go, because his family was unwilling to sign for loans for the rest.
The surprising thing is that schools were bidding for students, even before it was on the web. We took the scholarship from RPI to Carnegie Mellon, and CM upped their original bid within 24 hours.
I had surgery on both wrists about 20 years ago. I have designed and knitted fishermen's sweaeters, hand-stiched quilts, and use the computer ~20/7. I have had no recurrence, at all, ever. Of course, one personal anecdote does not equal a treatment protocol! But, if there is no scarring of the bands of snipped connective tissue, the symptoms do not necessarily recur.
One plus of surgery: The scars have faded, but it was so much fun to let people assunme I had slashed my wrists!
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My husband's sister homeschooled her kids - except that she and her husband are very much on the slower end of the bell curve so it came out like unschooling. End result: one 23 yo nephew, who can't pass his GED, but does have a job at a Payless shoe store where, after a year, he's been promoted to a position where he is "allowed to talk to the customers"!
His sister does have her GED, and just passed a class at community college. Oh - she did struggle at first, because her mother "didn't realize you needed to type/use computers," and had never let her near a keyboard. I think the stork dropped my mathematically gifted husband off at the wrong house!
WEll, as the parent of a freshman. There are scholarships, but if you get a $20,000 a year scholarship, your family will be taking out loans for the other 20 thou, and at least $80,000 in debt.
One of my son's friend got a very nice scholarship to MIT, but didn't go, because his family was unwilling to sign for loans for the rest.
The surprising thing is that schools were bidding for students, even before it was on the web. We took the scholarship from RPI to Carnegie Mellon, and CM upped their original bid within 24 hours.
I had surgery on both wrists about 20 years ago. I have designed and knitted fishermen's sweaeters, hand-stiched quilts, and use the computer ~20/7. I have had no recurrence, at all, ever. Of course, one personal anecdote does not equal a treatment protocol! But, if there is no scarring of the bands of snipped connective tissue, the symptoms do not necessarily recur.
One plus of surgery: The scars have faded, but it was so much fun to let people assunme I had slashed my wrists!