My daughter is in 2nd grade and my wife coached her team in Junior First Lego League this year. The rules specify that you have to include simple machines and moving parts (using motors and human power). The kids did all the work on their own and they totally get it. They got to show off their creation at LegoLand California. I highly recommend this program for K-5 students.
Fair enough, respect. I know the label "idiot" is tossed around loosely here at/. My karma is still positive, I'm happy. Cheers for the moral about not posting with the flu... I'll continue to post drunk though until I learn that lesson the hard way.
I had the patience to go two links deep, but there is no mention if the judge's name. Who is he/she? They should get some feedback.
Also, I suggest sending feedback to the law firm in question.
Here's what I wrote, but you all can be more clever than this.
"You guys made a technical and a marketing mistake in going after BlockShopper over a hyperlink. I hope you hire someone at an outrageous hourly rate to look into the ramifications of your strategy, and I also hope the judge in the case is up for re-election."
Any reading of food as a science must start with Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's 1825 treatise, "The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy" brilliantly translated in 1949 by the equally impressive food writer MFK Fisher. Brillat-Savarin meditates on every aspect of food including the benefits of sugar and chocolate (new discoveries at the time), cures for thinness and obesity, the social value of restaurants, why beautiful women should be included in any dinner party*, and how to recognize a gourmand by their facial features. Fisher adds her own glosses with 20th century examples of the "professor"'s proclamations, playful chiding of the man's 19th century mentality, and obvious deep respect for his writing, his knowledge, and his love for gastronomy and desire to see it studied like the other "-onomies" that were becoming so fashionable at the time. Looks like it only took 182 years.
Producing a well-educated kid through home schooling is like building your own PC in the garage. You are still bound by many of the same requirements, and though you get to do a few things exactly the way you want, in the end it is a hell of a lot more effort for something that is more of a customization than a revolutionary improvement.
I believe most people choose to home school because the public school puzzle is lacking a very specific piece: religious education. Also I believe most people who consider home schooling are don't have much of a financial consideration; the teaching parent was already home with the kids.
Lastly, home school kids have the potential for social interaction with other kids, but miss an easy opportunity for it at school, not to mention the cultural foundation of "going to school" that can help them identify with other peoples' experiences later in life.
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My daughter is in 2nd grade and my wife coached her team in Junior First Lego League this year. The rules specify that you have to include simple machines and moving parts (using motors and human power). The kids did all the work on their own and they totally get it. They got to show off their creation at LegoLand California. I highly recommend this program for K-5 students.
Fair enough, respect. I know the label "idiot" is tossed around loosely here at /. My karma is still positive, I'm happy. Cheers for the moral about not posting with the flu... I'll continue to post drunk though until I learn that lesson the hard way.
I had the patience to go two links deep, but there is no mention if the judge's name. Who is he/she? They should get some feedback. Also, I suggest sending feedback to the law firm in question. Here's what I wrote, but you all can be more clever than this. "You guys made a technical and a marketing mistake in going after BlockShopper over a hyperlink. I hope you hire someone at an outrageous hourly rate to look into the ramifications of your strategy, and I also hope the judge in the case is up for re-election."
I second Godel Escher Bach. It's big, and slow reading though - the students should be good readers to start with.
How about a law standardizing the dc power interface on cell phones so I don't have to buy a new car charger every time I upgrade my phone?!?
Any reading of food as a science must start with Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's 1825 treatise, "The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy" brilliantly translated in 1949 by the equally impressive food writer MFK Fisher. Brillat-Savarin meditates on every aspect of food including the benefits of sugar and chocolate (new discoveries at the time), cures for thinness and obesity, the social value of restaurants, why beautiful women should be included in any dinner party*, and how to recognize a gourmand by their facial features. Fisher adds her own glosses with 20th century examples of the "professor"'s proclamations, playful chiding of the man's 19th century mentality, and obvious deep respect for his writing, his knowledge, and his love for gastronomy and desire to see it studied like the other "-onomies" that were becoming so fashionable at the time. Looks like it only took 182 years.
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The author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anthelme_Brilla
The book: http://www.amazon.com/Physiology-Taste-Meditation
The translator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._F._K._Fisher
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Producing a well-educated kid through home schooling is like building your own PC in the garage. You are still bound by many of the same requirements, and though you get to do a few things exactly the way you want, in the end it is a hell of a lot more effort for something that is more of a customization than a revolutionary improvement.
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I believe most people choose to home school because the public school puzzle is lacking a very specific piece: religious education. Also I believe most people who consider home schooling are don't have much of a financial consideration; the teaching parent was already home with the kids.
Lastly, home school kids have the potential for social interaction with other kids, but miss an easy opportunity for it at school, not to mention the cultural foundation of "going to school" that can help them identify with other peoples' experiences later in life.
I'll add constructive comments in another post