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grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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We homeschool our boys and even though they are in high school we still like field trips. We are also mentoring a young couple who are just starting the home schooling adventure. Yesterday we went to 4D Farms in Cullman Al. Nicely done! All kinds of stuff to do. We had a great time.
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Pumpkin patch, hay ride
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Roller coaster, Minnie mo Mick in the back
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Zip lines and slides

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Joke telling chickens
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Pig races. Corn maze, pony rides, food,games of skill too much to mention
 
Looks like fun, although I did shudder at the roller coaster (on little skinny legs) in today's sue-happy society.

I didn't "get" the upturned feed bin on the old truck. What am I missing?
 
my first thought is, how much liability ins. must cost for the coaster and zip line. looks like a nice place.
 
Home school. I went to public elementary and high school. After learning to read and write, and basic math, most of my education was truly learned at home. Sure I learned about some science, geography, literature and history, valuable assets, which fully round out your perspective of the world and your place in it. This being said, I was home schooled in animal husbandry, carpentry, mechanical repair, budgeting, setting and planing realistic goals and working to achieve them. Many of these things if I wasn?t home schooled in these topics, my conventional high school certainly wasn?t going to teach. Must be quite a challenge to home school academic part of school at home.
 
Looks like fun. Obviously, all of us have had a LOT of home schooling when we grew up despite where you actually spent school hours. Home schooling, I often wonder how any parent finds enough time or resources to get through the curriculum that is set out. I was a teacher myself in my working years before retirement. I suspect there are always reasons for choosing that over regular public schooling although I don't think I've ever heard from anyone involved with it directly as to what those reasons are. I'm sure you have reasons and I'd be interested in knowing what they were if you care to share them. Up here, home schooled kids results on standardized achievement testing are very difficult to interpret. One of the reasons is that many parents that choose home schooling also choose to opt out of their kids writing those standardized tests, which is of course their right, as it is for kids attending regular school as well. I'm sure they have their reasons for that route as well, not sure what they might be. Interesting post and great photos.
 
If I may ask, why do you home school?

The schools are so good around me that home schooling actually holds kids back socially and educationally.

I do realize that schools are not the same quality in different areas.
 
Are there no parochial schools in your area? Parochial schools can be a good alternative when the public school systems are lacking or underfunded.
 
Now days most school do not teach real history or math or for that matter much that as a Kid I learned. They do teach left thinking idea though. School now days are poor at best in there teaching. Here one that only a home school kid got right. I took 2400 pictures of Lincoln into the bank and walk out with a picture of Jackson and 4 pictures of Washington what had the Lincoln pictures on them??? Only a home school kid got that and she was the youngest I asked to boot
 
Old,

How long since you have had a child in school?

My kids were able to get college math, languages and science while in high school.
 
Less then 10 years. And the school here cares more about sports then any thing else. Some one in sports can get away with things that others not in sport get in trouble for. Been that way ever since I have lived in this area. The school here does not teach rel history it teaches history with a left twist to it and same hold true for English and math. But yet it is rated high on school scores which makes the schooling scoring a joke at best
 
Up till I was in Jr. high I went to private schools run by the Lurthern church my dad was the pastor of. Learned many thing I do not think I would have ever learned had I gone to public schools
 
I went to regular public school and about all I learned was a bunch of meaness. Also get in a fight with a football player and get a whooping from principle and other guy gets off the hook.
 
My dad,me and all my kids went to Lutheran schools till high school. We now have a high school that close to where we leave but only 1 of the 3 in high school chose to go there,the other 2 are in public school. The 8th grader has not made up her mind for next year yet.
 
Way to go Grampa. The public schools today are a joke. They don't teach phonics anymore and half the kids can hardly read, but they get passed anyway. All the teachers teach llleftist. communist ideology. I read of kids being kicked out of school for bringing a Bible to school. They try to turn boys into girls and girls into boys. The homeschooled kids always do better on tests than the government schooled kids. Here's your big chance David g to proof my post like you always do.
 
Charter schools where I live in Michigan are really doing well. Agri-tourism is also doing very well. The right people in the right place makes all the difference, and actions always speak louder than words.
 
Old: They were pennies. My sister home schooled her kids till they went to private christian school. Now both in college and doing quite well. Her sone is going to Kettering and Daughter went to Ferris State. Got an accounting degree or something like that.
 
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