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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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Note to self: Even if you're talking about dogs, don't write "naughty" and "anal" in the same post.

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This naughty girl became so enraged at the squirrel at the bird feeder, she expressed her anal glands onto the couch. 🙄 When I was a kid imagining adult life, cleaning anal glad secretions off the furniture definitely wasn't what I had in mind.

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Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

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My seven-year-old has both ADHD and anxiety, and some days (like today) her anxiety is really bad. So we kept it pretty laid back and took a day off from her normal curriculum. She played outside a lot and we read some of D'Aulaire's Greek Myths and Brambly Hedge. Now she's watching a documentary.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus fucking christ can we just not

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A “mirror organism” would have proteins and DNA with an opposite “handedness” of conventional life on Earth.

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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Reading entire books is cool and fun and all the world's worst people don't like that

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No matter where your kids go to school, teach them history at home, too.

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We know there’s a science behind teaching ALL kids to read, so why are we STILL in a literacy crisis? It’s not (only) because of the pandemic … Too many people have chosen to ignore the research, many times being sneaky about it. Too many curriculums chose profit over helping our kids read.

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#Homeschooling a child that is your complete opposite is so difficult but so much fun. My seven-year-old was horrified at the assignment today where she was supposed to draw herself as a Greek goddess, but adored the math machine game we played (basically early functions).

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One of the things people commonly wonder is, "Can I homeschool and still work?" Yes, but with caveats. First of all, if you work a full-time job and have multiple school-aged children, you aren't going to be able to homeschool well. That's just the nature of time being a finite resource.

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I made this caprese pizza for lunch today, and it was *chef's kiss* And actually pretty easy to throw together if you use a jar of premade pesto. www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking...

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On a lazy weekend morning, no one is lazier than the cat.

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House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending. The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs. Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It's reverse Robin Hood.

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One thing that's marginally better now than during the Mango Mussolini's first term is that hoarding fluoride toothpaste doesn't require as much space as stockpiling toilet paper.

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If you're a newish homeschooler and are looking through potential curricula, take it from me- if you see the word "dominion" anywhere, add it straight to the "hell, no" pile. #homeschool

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Bill Gates on how raising academic standards worked for him, personally (www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/speech...):

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It's Monday! This is probably the cleanest our table will be all week. #homeschool

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Hén is 'one' in Ancient Greek (specifically its nominative/accusative neuter form), and it appears in English in the name of the punctuation mark that combines words under (hupó) one (hén) – the huphén, or hyphen.

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