Pulling your kids out of a school is denying your everyday neighborhood reality

I'm not sure how well this connects with the idea generally, but when I was a kid there was a family in the neighborhood who sent their kids to a private school for religious reasons. Actually, several related families, all of whom lived near each other.

The separation extended to social events as well. They were as isolated from the neighborhood as it was possible to be. And I can't even remember their names, unlike the other families in the neighborhood of the time (or certainly the ones who had kids anywhere near my age).

Oh. I was misled by him quoting me just above.

I'm oh so misleading. Actually, it was me tweaking my own generalizing tendencies by deferring to somebody I knew didn't have children. (Sort of an interior conversation I'm having with my own tone.)

People here are 1) suprised when a 6-8 hour project they didn't tell me was a rush until after 5:00 on Friday isn't done yet, and 2) expecting me to care.

There are several flaws in their logic.

Not going to enter into the home school vs public school debate here just because I see it as primarily a pragmatic issue, not a moral one. But I do find the discussion interesting because now that we've bought the house I've begun thinking about Franny's education. The local elemetary school sucks. It sucked when I went there, and it hasn't gotten any better over the years, so I know that I don't want her to go there.

I've discovered an inherent flaw in my cunning plan to catch up on my work e-mail: people keep replying.

If only I had a magic clicky thing what puts the rest of the universe on pause.

"The Battle of Teaching Evolution Sharpens." Scary stuff.

Yep, scary stuff. The jury isn't out on evolution, the evidence is overwhelming. There might be tweaks here and there but evolution is pretty darn solid. What bothers me the most is that the "alternatives" are just religion masqurading as science.

What bothers me the most is that the "alternatives" are just religion masqurading as science.

What bothers me the most is knowing, from discussions with my students, how many future health practioners don't believe in evolution.

People here are 1) suprised when a 6-8 hour project they didn't tell me was a rush until after 5:00 on Friday isn't done yet, and 2) expecting me to care.

Did you laugh at them, Lee?

ignoring all the homeschooly talk to post a random link

Have y'all seen this? It's work-safe and damn funny. And has the most perfectly descriptive title ever - Kung-fool.

The state of the LAUSD is the reason Joe and I have The Five Year Plan. As soon as Emeline is old enough to be in a public school, we are heading back to Michigan. I plan on being a very involved parent in the school district, but feel that, for me, the LAUSD is just too big to make change in any time frame that would benefit my child. She's covered at the Montessori School through kidnergarten, so I have 5 more years to think about it. But I'd rather move than homeschool her. I feel that I would be not motivated enough and the Joe might push her too hard for it to be beneficial to her.

Besides, if we home schooled her, who would I blame for screwing up her education?? ;)