Not only does online schooling require TONS of self-discipline, part of the bond forged early on between an instructor and a student is vital. There is an underlying, yet HEALTHY level of stress involved with keeping up with the others, observing and being a part of other's educations regarding social norms, and modeling your 'early life' behavoirs in general.
K-8 graders require the basics, but also, require personal attention. How many attention disorders, or learning disabilities are diagnosed by observation early in life? The social aspects of learning and fitting in are so important because they model our behavoir in the more important secondary schooling we receive.
Having taken many college courses online and also having been "bored" at HS, normally this is AGAINST my stance on online learning. However, after 8th grade, I'm cool with it. By then the children have an idea of how to fit in, start realizing what their ambitions are, etc. While HS is very important in my opinion, some excel here and can use the more direct attention (to learning, not the person learning) to succeed faster online - I know I would have and would have loved to have moved on to college even a year sooner.
My children are in the first stages of K-8 and after fathering carefully for several years now, I can honestly say that in school, they learn MUCH more in the group environment than they would on their own. While I have taught them how to read, write, and do simple maths, there are so many other things that only other peers their age can teach. Things that will grow parts of their personality NO online software could.
At this stage in life, it's almost not too profound to expect them to learn LITTLE about advanced topics. Hell, they're still learning how to LEARN!
I believe in home schooling and online classes, but not for K-8. Even homeschooling does more than plop them in front of a monitor and expect them to learn. The successful people in a company, and in LIFE, are the networkers who know how to take intelligence, form it with social skills, and fuse the two into a mastery of social psychology and the topic they immerse their life in. Be it real estate, technology, health, etc.
Anywhere near where I work this is all you see. When the normal monthly rate in halfway decent areas is about 800/month for an apartment - there's no reason a person who has educated themselves as much as you should have to shelter next to the 10 illegals living next door for 40/month each because it's all they can afford.
I have nothing against living next to folks who are poorer than dirt, except for the fact that all of a sudden, my 8 year old 19" tv starts looking like a Lexus to them. I bust my arse as is, my kids deserve a better life.
I'd love the extra cardio from riding a bike, but when the temperature is about to hit 115+ degrees here in Arizona within a matter of months, it's so HOT (you can actually feel your body being directly affected by the direct heat) that doing anything short of dumping ice in your pants won't help.
We have the light rail as well as some other transit options coming, and Tempe is pretty bike-friendly, but unless the companies we work for that demand us to dress a certain way, get there by a certain time, etc. modify things, we're stuck doing the best we can to get out of our house in time to get to work on time.
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I thought your post was Funny
I thought I heard you jest...
Ok that's enough, I could go on forever.. (hmm, until it's the end of the world as I know it?)
Those little people have the MOST anger per volume of anyone I've ever met!
or heard about from the trustworthy mainstream media at least
Hmm, thinking about it though, on the nuclear tangent, if we grouped enough of these small people together, made disparaging remarks about their height and general worth in society, do you think the heat radiating from their (very) small and angry faces would be enough to power anything worthwhile?
I mean, who cares if it's expensive energy, these people are funny by nature!
Actually you're not too far off with the McDonald's comment.
The other weekend after picking up some stuff on their 99cent menu and getting a cup of water rather than soda, I realized how HUGE their straws are. Water comes in their smallest cup (fine by me), but with their straws, you drink the entire cup in almost less than 10 drinks!
Sure, refills are free. But it makes you think how many opt for the larger sizes of sodas (which is a GIGANTIC profit center) just because they liken the smaller sizes to being unsatisfying to quench their thirst?
Or at least I hope it is. Devs definitely need to set up server-side security for this reason. You can't get them all, especially if they REALLY want in, but you can at least do your best on the client side.
Of course, everyone knows that if you just comment it out, it disappears.:o
Not that I don't have that much faith in MS *snicker*, but seriously, who wants another thing to un-install when dealing with Windows? I have a CD full of up-to-date programs to help do my work when needed, don't make me work around one you put on the system, especially if it sucks...
As others have said here, I think ultimately this will be just like the gas crunch, spyware, and other bottlenecks we seem to squeeze ourselves into.
As a (very bad, busy, and yeah.. lazy) bodybuilder, I do my best to avoid the marketing hype in the grocery store when shopping, but I believe that just like we need to run spyware removal tools, like we go out of our way to save a little gas, etc. - this is not something that will go away.
Anyone as a kid remember doing things like bragging about that 24 pack of mountain dew you just drank, taking 3-4 wonderfully white pieces of bread, squishing them together, and just sinking your teeth into that white goodness? High Fructose Syrup and everything being "Enriched" (test your "wheat bread" - is the first ingredient whole wheat or enriched wheat [read: white] bread?) is going to cause this to be just another thing we have to deal with.
There is no fountain of youth, and every new invention is a potential pandora's box waiting to happen, just seems we're getting our come-up-ens now. All of the marketing hype says "NO FAT!" or "REDUCED FAT!" but what they don't say is "WE JUST UPPED THE SUGARS, THAT'S ALL". What about the great chocolate getting marketed now as sugar-free when in fact there's a good possibility it'll metabolize in your body just like sugar and be transported as such?
The nice thing is, if this proves to be true, it should toss some accountability to those that normally want nothing of the sort.
Old Convo: Me: So, puttin on a little for the winter? Fatty Fatty McFatty: Oh no, I'm genetically obese, nothing I can do - I even cut down to half a snickers every 4 hours and NOTHING.
New Convo: Me: So, puttin on a little for the winter? Fatty Fatty McFatty: Oh no, I caught the fat. This dude was eating an OMFGWTFHAXBBQ sandwich, coughed, and sure enough, I got infected with the fat:( Me: Ouch, I guess you'll have to come up with a fat management plan then, eh? Fatty Fatty McFatty: Oh shit, I actually have to DO something about this now?
...
Point of the story is, that no matter if the fat came with ya, ya caught it, or you just don't diet healthy, folks should hopefully start to allow accountability into their lives. If you were BORN with AIDS, nothing you can do, just hope for a cure. If you CAUGHT AIDS, you're probably more likely to want to fix it, as you actually remember life before-hand. Sometimes, the idea that God DIDN'T make you that way (the AI for his ID extension hasn't been patched for FF 1.5 yet), allows reason to kick in, hopefully.
Folks have got to learn more about their bodies nowadays or face the consequences. Hopefully this helps some of those that are too lazy to help themselves. If not, always a good time to get into the healthcare field, lol.
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Admiral Farragut was given his first command (a prize ship) during the War of 1812 when he was twelve years old.
For every Farragut, there are THOUSANDS who "took a prize ship" into their dock and ended up with a LOT less fanfare as a result.
Consequently, the boatmasters also ended up with child support payments.
Having just lost a car to an uninsured motorist, I can assure you it SUCKS.
Had I not had another car to fall back on, the ensuing 3 month hassle with State Farm to reach a value on my vehicle would have left me totally lost.
At least now that this stuff is available to the public, the public can push for better regulations and controls over what is allowed to pass.
If it exists, criminals will already have it. If it's public, it's a larger priority for those that (sometimes) represent us.
Not only does online schooling require TONS of self-discipline, part of the bond forged early on between an instructor and a student is vital. There is an underlying, yet HEALTHY level of stress involved with keeping up with the others, observing and being a part of other's educations regarding social norms, and modeling your 'early life' behavoirs in general.
K-8 graders require the basics, but also, require personal attention. How many attention disorders, or learning disabilities are diagnosed by observation early in life? The social aspects of learning and fitting in are so important because they model our behavoir in the more important secondary schooling we receive.
Having taken many college courses online and also having been "bored" at HS, normally this is AGAINST my stance on online learning. However, after 8th grade, I'm cool with it. By then the children have an idea of how to fit in, start realizing what their ambitions are, etc. While HS is very important in my opinion, some excel here and can use the more direct attention (to learning, not the person learning) to succeed faster online - I know I would have and would have loved to have moved on to college even a year sooner.
My children are in the first stages of K-8 and after fathering carefully for several years now, I can honestly say that in school, they learn MUCH more in the group environment than they would on their own. While I have taught them how to read, write, and do simple maths, there are so many other things that only other peers their age can teach. Things that will grow parts of their personality NO online software could.
At this stage in life, it's almost not too profound to expect them to learn LITTLE about advanced topics. Hell, they're still learning how to LEARN!
I believe in home schooling and online classes, but not for K-8. Even homeschooling does more than plop them in front of a monitor and expect them to learn. The successful people in a company, and in LIFE, are the networkers who know how to take intelligence, form it with social skills, and fuse the two into a mastery of social psychology and the topic they immerse their life in. Be it real estate, technology, health, etc.
Because you already HAVE XP!
The pants just get worn differently in that family, it is the 2000's ya know.
*ugh*
And if your idea for fighting bird flu is with chicken soup, we truly are screwed.
That would just be stupid.
What do you take me for, a moron?
I'll be fighting the bird flu with bird soup thank you very much!
*mumbles something about crazy liberals*
Depends,
Have you paid your Moses Fee?
(let my packets go....) [as sung to 'let my people go']
Anywhere near where I work this is all you see. When the normal monthly rate in halfway decent areas is about 800/month for an apartment - there's no reason a person who has educated themselves as much as you should have to shelter next to the 10 illegals living next door for 40/month each because it's all they can afford.
I have nothing against living next to folks who are poorer than dirt, except for the fact that all of a sudden, my 8 year old 19" tv starts looking like a Lexus to them. I bust my arse as is, my kids deserve a better life.
Try 'business casual' dress while riding 30 miles on a bike.
I'm just one of those guys that sweats when the temp goes above 80, let alone when wearing dress pants, and a long sleeved collared shirt.
It's not because I'm fat either. At 12% bodyfat and in the gym 6 days a week (I bodybuild), I'm actually a decent picture of health.
Here's an interesting link about the pollution issues coming to AZ this year because of our now 140-days-without-any-rain drought - Cleaner air on the way? Don't hold your breath
I'd love the extra cardio from riding a bike, but when the temperature is about to hit 115+ degrees here in Arizona within a matter of months, it's so HOT (you can actually feel your body being directly affected by the direct heat) that doing anything short of dumping ice in your pants won't help.
We have the light rail as well as some other transit options coming, and Tempe is pretty bike-friendly, but unless the companies we work for that demand us to dress a certain way, get there by a certain time, etc. modify things, we're stuck doing the best we can to get out of our house in time to get to work on time.
Ah ha!
So the $40 fines are the reason there are so many bums on Mill asking for money!
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Oh no I've said too much
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I thought your post was Funny
I thought I heard you jest...
Ok that's enough, I could go on forever.. (hmm, until it's the end of the world as I know it?)
Ok, really, enough..
Hey, I thought you folks were all tied up in the Google discussions!
"Makers of the hit cartoon The Simpsons have a filmed the show's opening titles using real actors...." Amazing attention to detail.
I know it's Monday and my eyes aren't always working well at this early an hour, but does anyone else notice the irony here?
Where's Alanis when you need her!!!
cell-level changes such as shrinkage
It's not me baby, I swear! I was on hold for the new batch of Star Wars posters for hours, I SWEAR it was the phone!!
See? If Reuters hadn't sent their contribution to the story via email, you'd have the rest of it!
LONG LIVE BEZOS!!!1
*hops on his segway to traverse the newly built inter-city highways after Dean Kamen's invention "revolutionized the world"*
Because sharks need energy just like the rest of us to power their popular electronics and crazy shark-cars!
Stern made that mistake when mini-me was on.
Those little people have the MOST anger per volume of anyone I've ever met!
or heard about from the trustworthy mainstream media at least
Hmm, thinking about it though, on the nuclear tangent, if we grouped enough of these small people together, made disparaging remarks about their height and general worth in society, do you think the heat radiating from their (very) small and angry faces would be enough to power anything worthwhile?
I mean, who cares if it's expensive energy, these people are funny by nature!
And the women always seem to be smiling twice as much?
Cultural ignorance aside, I too would be yelling and pissed all the time if I had to buy new electronics all over again!
Actually you're not too far off with the McDonald's comment.
The other weekend after picking up some stuff on their 99cent menu and getting a cup of water rather than soda, I realized how HUGE their straws are. Water comes in their smallest cup (fine by me), but with their straws, you drink the entire cup in almost less than 10 drinks!
Sure, refills are free. But it makes you think how many opt for the larger sizes of sodas (which is a GIGANTIC profit center) just because they liken the smaller sizes to being unsatisfying to quench their thirst?
It says 'Alter Relationship'...
:o
*sigh*
If only it were that easy
Or at least I hope it is. Devs definitely need to set up server-side security for this reason. You can't get them all, especially if they REALLY want in, but you can at least do your best on the client side.
:o
Of course, everyone knows that if you just comment it out, it disappears.
You're moving too fast here...
You're just yelling slower and louder to someone who already has no idea what you're truly trying to say...
Not that I don't have that much faith in MS *snicker*, but seriously, who wants another thing to un-install when dealing with Windows? I have a CD full of up-to-date programs to help do my work when needed, don't make me work around one you put on the system, especially if it sucks...
As others have said here, I think ultimately this will be just like the gas crunch, spyware, and other bottlenecks we seem to squeeze ourselves into.
:(
...
As a (very bad, busy, and yeah.. lazy) bodybuilder, I do my best to avoid the marketing hype in the grocery store when shopping, but I believe that just like we need to run spyware removal tools, like we go out of our way to save a little gas, etc. - this is not something that will go away.
Anyone as a kid remember doing things like bragging about that 24 pack of mountain dew you just drank, taking 3-4 wonderfully white pieces of bread, squishing them together, and just sinking your teeth into that white goodness? High Fructose Syrup and everything being "Enriched" (test your "wheat bread" - is the first ingredient whole wheat or enriched wheat [read: white] bread?) is going to cause this to be just another thing we have to deal with.
There is no fountain of youth, and every new invention is a potential pandora's box waiting to happen, just seems we're getting our come-up-ens now. All of the marketing hype says "NO FAT!" or "REDUCED FAT!" but what they don't say is "WE JUST UPPED THE SUGARS, THAT'S ALL". What about the great chocolate getting marketed now as sugar-free when in fact there's a good possibility it'll metabolize in your body just like sugar and be transported as such?
The nice thing is, if this proves to be true, it should toss some accountability to those that normally want nothing of the sort.
Old Convo:
Me: So, puttin on a little for the winter?
Fatty Fatty McFatty: Oh no, I'm genetically obese, nothing I can do - I even cut down to half a snickers every 4 hours and NOTHING.
New Convo:
Me: So, puttin on a little for the winter?
Fatty Fatty McFatty: Oh no, I caught the fat. This dude was eating an OMFGWTFHAXBBQ sandwich, coughed, and sure enough, I got infected with the fat
Me: Ouch, I guess you'll have to come up with a fat management plan then, eh?
Fatty Fatty McFatty: Oh shit, I actually have to DO something about this now?
Point of the story is, that no matter if the fat came with ya, ya caught it, or you just don't diet healthy, folks should hopefully start to allow accountability into their lives. If you were BORN with AIDS, nothing you can do, just hope for a cure. If you CAUGHT AIDS, you're probably more likely to want to fix it, as you actually remember life before-hand. Sometimes, the idea that God DIDN'T make you that way (the AI for his ID extension hasn't been patched for FF 1.5 yet), allows reason to kick in, hopefully.
Folks have got to learn more about their bodies nowadays or face the consequences. Hopefully this helps some of those that are too lazy to help themselves. If not, always a good time to get into the healthcare field, lol.
CAUGHT the fat?