Saturday, October 06, 2012

School Editing Fail

I was feeling too depressed to function and was about to enroll my kids in public school until I went to the registration page for their elementary school.



Typo on Facebook? Happens. Typo on your professional website, about education no less? Does not inspire confidence. I think we'll pass. I should send this in to Jay Leno.
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  1. Oh brother! My own fear, not helped by our current enrollment in an online school through a school district, is that my daughter will be bored because she's ahead of everyone else in a number of areas. It does seem that our having worked with her these past few years (and really, we haven't even done all that much and we barely homeschooled her at all last year!) has put her somewhat ahead of a number of her classmates. *sigh*

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  2. My oldest went to public schools until he decided to leave to learn at home when he was 15.

    One of our favorite hobbies was editing letters sent home by his teachers. I'm no Grammarian, but then again I'm also not certified by a state department of education to teach it. The number of spelling errors by his 2nd grade teacher was the most shocking.

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  3. MooMama - that made me LMAO. It also made me a little sad. And people think I'm not qualified to teach my own kids! Bah!

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  4. Yeah, they probably don't test for those things in order to certify you for teaching. I took an education class for a semester in college (before I was even THINKING about kids, to be honest) and didn't get much out of it except for the idea that I did NOT want to be a teacher. lol I'm trying to keep my oldest on task and granted, I know part of the challenge is because we're on a more scheduled curriculum but I honestly did not know where to start and I was concerned about unschooling her. Sad thing is, other than handwriting, she's either right on or ahead. Handwriting she's not thrilled with as she wants to write in all caps, not in small letters as well as caps. And she'll be learning some things this year that I personally do not think she needs to be taught just yet (like in her educational technology course, she's going to learn typing, Word, Excel, etc and she's only in first grade!). So I don't know. I want to keep going with it for now because, to be honest, I can't really afford much in the way of curriculum but on the other hand, I can't seem to get her to really sit and work. So I don't know. Other than my hearing loss and having to deal with that, I did pretty well in school and enjoyed school. It was the social aspect of school that was a nightmare because I was bullied so much from first grade on. But I had always enjoyed learning stuff. Just had trouble paying attention in the later years, partly because I easily became bored eventually. This was more in high school and college though. I just wasn't challenge enough. Heck, when I was in high school, I was going with my mom to some of her classes just to listen to the lectures for fun.

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  5. We haven't purchase any formal curriculum. There is so much for free online that there's no point. I just get depressed and then I feel like I'm not giving them enough opportunities or attention and I think I can get more done if someone else was teaching them. Then I remember that if I send them to school I will just be trading one set of problems for another. Also, I remember that these days pass quickly and then I feel normal again for a few weeks.

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  6. I know what you mean. I have a two year old (I think around the same age as your youngest) and trying to teach my oldest, I don't have as much time for her. There is definitely a lot of free stuff online, it just all gets REALLY overwhelming to try and figure out so I would just end up not able to do it. I struggle massively with the depression stuff too which was why I put her into the online school, it was just all too overwhelming for me otherwise.

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