Susie570
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Galadriel":6zbcsibj said:
Ouch!! Buuuurrnnn!! :lol:
my homeschooled kid
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Oh, it's never been a secret that I could use my brain to sift flour!Galadriel":29ypg9r9 said:
(And if anyone's interested, here's "Gabriela" (one "l" LOL): https://youtu.be/8B-RnjXI_d8 )
Yeah... that did kinda smart...Syberchick70":29ypg9r9 said:
Susie570
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Miss M":1yrsbv4k said:
I like the sound of that.
More exotic, less 'poppy'. Syberchick70":12yb2d7x said:Miss M":12yb2d7x said:
I like the sound of that.
You probably wouldn't like much else of theirs, then. VERY rock-n-roll. :roll: Except "Heaven of My Heart", "Highland of Love", "Once and for All", and possibly "Unchain". Those are smoother, like "Gabriela". But the rest are more rock and less roll.
Bunny-Wan Kenobi
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Miss M":1get0ufc said:Yeah... that did kinda smart...Syberchick70":1get0ufc said:
The funniest part is I get that! Meep! Meep!
Susie570
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My kid comes up with the most original expressions sometimes...
yesterday he said he was 'hot as a polar bear in florida'
today he said that something was 'as dry as the skin on a tomato'.... :lol:
yesterday he said he was 'hot as a polar bear in florida'
today he said that something was 'as dry as the skin on a tomato'.... :lol:
CochinBrahmaLover
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MamaSheepdog":13jcqfmi said:Syber, it sounds like you are an Unschooler or "Life Learner"? All of my kids are unschoolers.
My eldest two did go to school (until the start of their 3rd and 4th grade years), but Colliepup has never been inside of a classroom. The first (and only!) test he has ever taken was the one to get his hunting license and he passed with a score of 97%.
Syberchick70":13jcqfmi said:I do very little with him, at least so far. I put some effort into teaching him basics and he pretty much took off after that. Yay homeschooling
We approach learning as just a part of life. For example, when Colliepup was learning to read (and spell) he asked me how to spell "phone". I answered "P-h-o-n-e. Sometimes "ph" is used to make the "fff" sound.", and then we went on with our day.
jeannie":13jcqfmi said:
Before the advent of compulsory government schooling (1850) the literacy rate in the U.S. was at 98%. It is now less than 80%.
Keep up the good (non!) work, Syber! You will be amazed at the things he learns when he is in charge of his own education. My kids constantly amaze me with the things they know.
I don't mean to bring up old posts, but do you have a source for this? Because according to the CIA, us has a literacy rate of 99%.
Edit: just wanted to note, I've got nothing against homeschooling. It can be really beneficial, especially if you've got bad schools in your area. Go all of y'all, homeschooling seems difficult, but glad it's worked out well
and yeah, that's a good approach to teaching! (Happens during life)
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CochinBrahmaLover":14z8e5ih said:
The CIA defines literacy as an individual’s (over age 15) ability to read and write with minimal comprehension. This definition of literacy means the individual is capable of only understanding the basics of what he or she is reading. In fact, the CIA’s official definition includes those individuals some call the “functioning illiterate.” Functioning illiterates can read, write and comprehend enough to “get by” in life. In some instances, these illiterate people are so, not only by definition, but also legally.
Read more at http://www.schoolmoney.org/literacy-rat ... 2yajmMG.99
Literacy study: 1 in 7 U.S. adults are unable to read this story
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
A long-awaited federal study finds that an estimated 32 million adults in the USA — about one in seven — are saddled with such low literacy skills that it would be tough for them to read anything more challenging than a children's picture book or to understand a medication's side effects listed on a pill bottle.
ON THE WEB: Read the findings
Though many communities are making strides to tackle the problem, it's worsening elsewhere — in some cases significantly.
Overall, the study finds, the nation hasn't made a dent in its adult-literacy problem: From 1992 to 2003, it shows, the USA added about 23 million adults to its population; in that period, an estimated 3.6 million more joined the ranks of adults with low literacy skills.
LOCATION: Seattle, Minneapolis most literate big cities
How low? It would be a challenge to read this newspaper article or deconstruct a fuel bill.
"They really cannot read … paragraphs (or) sentences that are connected," says Sheida White, a researcher at the U.S. Education Department.
The findings come from the department's National Assessment of Adult Literacy, a survey of more than 19,000 Americans ages 16 and older. The 2003 survey is a follow-up to a similar one in 1992 and for the first time lets the public see literacy rates as far down as county levels.
In many cases, states made sizable gains. In Mississippi, the percentage of adults with low skills dropped 9 percentage points, from 25% to 16%. In every one of its 82 counties, low-skill rates dropped — in a few cases by 20 percentage points or more.
By contrast, in several large states — California, New York, Florida and Nevada, for instance — the number of adults with low skills rose.
David Harvey, president and CEO of ProLiteracy, an adult-literacy organization, says Mississippi "invested more in education … and they have done innovative programming. We need much more of that."
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says efforts in adult literacy are inefficient and "scattered" across government agencies.
"We're not using research-based practices, broadly applied," she says.
Harvey cites undiagnosed learning disabilities, immigration and high school dropouts as reasons for the poor literacy numbers.
The findings are published online at nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/index.aspx.
I think people need to realize just how many high school GRADUATES have poor literacy skills these days.
If someone really wants to know just how literate the US is, they can go check on craigslist.
I'm not seeing 99% literacy rate even among those who have internet access. :roll:
Susie570
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Zass":1lwremw5 said:
I think people need to realize just how many high school GRADUATES have poor literacy skills these days.
If someone really wants to know just how literate the US is, they can go check on craigslist.
I'm not seeing 99% literacy rate even among those who have internet access. :roll:
Exactly why I didn't question the low literacy rate. That's even with spell check and autocorrect!! (as bad as that can be)
I worked with boys in a church program a few years ago, one of the boys I worked with is a good example of how bad it can be. This boy was an amazing football player, he was incredibly tough, and a very good person, fair to others and honest. He was taken out of his academic high school classes as a freshman [and I was told this had been happening years before high school also ]
I soon found out he was almost totally unable to read, [His reading vocabulary was less then 20 words] - he was put in sports programs instead of classrooms, and his teachers were told to give him a C - so-- he had a C average except in PE where he got an A, -- in his Jr year he was set up and hit by 2 boys at once and his femur was badly broken, so-- he was dropped from the team, and sports programs, and put back in class, - He was absolutely lost, had no idea what was going on, could not read at all, had no math skills, and was now getting F grades in all of his classes, -- well-- not surprisingly he dropped out -and got a job- He eventually met a great girl, who married him, taught him to read, and he was able to get his GED, and a much better job. But-- this is an example of what goes on in some California schools.
I soon found out he was almost totally unable to read, [His reading vocabulary was less then 20 words] - he was put in sports programs instead of classrooms, and his teachers were told to give him a C - so-- he had a C average except in PE where he got an A, -- in his Jr year he was set up and hit by 2 boys at once and his femur was badly broken, so-- he was dropped from the team, and sports programs, and put back in class, - He was absolutely lost, had no idea what was going on, could not read at all, had no math skills, and was now getting F grades in all of his classes, -- well-- not surprisingly he dropped out -and got a job- He eventually met a great girl, who married him, taught him to read, and he was able to get his GED, and a much better job. But-- this is an example of what goes on in some California schools.
JenerationX
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If Wylie Coyote had half a brain he'd stop buying supplies at ACME. Clearly their quality control sucks.
Susie570
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JenerationX":2jx2h8q7 said:
:shock: :lol: :lol:
Bunny-Wan Kenobi
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JenerationX":9a7pxcu7 said:
:coffee-screen:
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mystang89":194zcfy5 said:
Perhaps it will soon click with him and he will be reading amazing things
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Comprehension and the ability to use and apply what he reads will come.mystang89":1h7t7vn1 said:
For Bunny-Wan Kenobi, the key was to find a genre that piqued his interest. It wasn't easy, but we finally did. It made him really want to "get it", and that helped him develop his comprehension in other areas.
