classicaled.bsky.social
Reclaiming classical education and homeschooling from religious fanatics. I've been homeschooling in rural Minnesota for eleven years.
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Is the hell in the room with us?
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If you want to post on a public forum and only hear from people who agree with you, may I suggest the conservative subreddit?
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I know this isn't popular around here, but I homeschooled my autistic daughter from K-8. She's in the public high school now and gets straight As, is conversational in Norwegian and Spanish, plays flute, piccolo, and tenor sax, and has tons of friends.
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The pay is crap, but you could look into Appen.
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They were the soundtrack of my teenage years.
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Wish I could go! Sadly, Minnesota is a bit too far of a drive.
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I'm a box checker by nature so it's struggle for me some days when I have to let things go undone 😅
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I have to constantly remind myself that the goal is learning, not checking off boxes. If your child can't learn because they're dealing with a mental health issue, forcing them to go through the motions so you can check something off your list isn't doing anyone any good.
#homeschool
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💀
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It's gorgeous but I could also see myself wearing satin pajamas and then slipping right off the bottom of the chair
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So what would you suggest doing about it? I'm asking genuinely. Bashing the Dems because they did things we didn't agree with is how we ended up with Trump instead of Harris, and bashing Walz and the DFL over line 3 seems unproductive given the current state of things.
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I tried to start one a few weeks ago and thought it was going well, but then the sides of the jar started growing mold. Back to square one, I guess. Good luck with yours!
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I don't know, you'd have to ask him that. But I'm certainly not going to badmouth the good things he does because he's done things I don't agree with in the past.
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He's the governor of Minnesota, and we are fanatics when it comes to protecting our state's natural resources. This isn't tone deaf- he's doing what we elected him to do as governor.
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I couldn't live without Calibre. It's 100% worth taking the time to get it set up and get your ebooks in there and tagged.
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I'm a lifelong Minnesotan. Get yourself a long down coat and you'll be fine. I walk to work, and it can be -30° with the wind chill I don't even feel it. Down coat, Sorel boots, wool socks, and a hat, mittens, and scarf. Plus a car battery with a lot of cold cranking amps.
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Have epilepsy and OCD, can confirm
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But you can absolutely homeschool with a part-time job and a supportive partner. Is it easy? No, but it's worth it.
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You're going to have to sacrifice either their education, your sleep, or your sanity.
Also, whoever watches them while you work needs to be able to help, whether that's a spouse, a nanny, or family. If they aren't on board with homeschooling, it's going to be rough.
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They're going to have a goddamned stroke when they see the cost from that time I was on injectable blood thinners for months when I had a DVT after having my younger daughter.
I mean, the alternative is that I'd be dead because the cost was more than my family's entire monthly income.
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Homeschooling has changed drastically just in the last five years. I started over a decade ago, and it's gone from almost exclusively conservative and religious to far more diverse. The adults you see now who were formerly homeschooled are casualties of the Duggar homeschooling era.
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My older daughter was able to go on a trip to Washington DC where she met with various Congresspeople and learned how to advocate for social justice issues.
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The Bad Kitty books are hilarious, and the word choice and sentence structure is actually fairly sophisticated for a book for early readers. The person who wrote this clearly just hates pictures.
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Did you lose a bet?
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I reread the first two books right before I started Onyx Storm and I'm still completely lost whenever someone is talking.