Got this one from Atypical Homeschool as well. It’s a list of books that have been made into movies. Mark with a B if you’ve read the book, and an M if you’ve seen the movie. Like Ron, I’ll add some parenthetical comments:
1. B - 1984
2. M - Alice in Wonderland
3. American […]
As Prince Caspian you are a noble, goodhearted but mischievous scallywag! Fun loving, you are admired for your easy going nature.
Mischievous scallywag — that’s me, all right.
It was actually a tie between Caspian and Reepicheep! Caspian, maybe, but Reepicheep?
(Courtesy of Mr. Beaver, er, Atypical Homeschool)
Believe it or not, we had our first Freshman orientation today. It’s smaller than the ones that take place in June, and it’s only one day, whereas the others will be two-day events. This one is designed generally for kids who are closer by (say within 50 miles or so), although I met […]
Apparently, Hosting Matters has been the target of a couple of Denial of Service attacks. Sorry for anyone who tried to get here but couldn’t.
Michelle Malkin has the details, and she was also kind enough to post the titles of Blogs who were affected by the attacks. Puny as I am, I asked […]
Be sure to read the post below first.
I can’t figure it out. This guy really has it in for homeschoolers. First he tries to get us to believe that Luther was a public school advocate (and I guess, therefore, an opponent of home schooling). Now he wants us to believe homeschooling has […]
Dr. Jim West (remember him?) wants us to ponder the racist roots of homeschooling by reading an editorial at the Baptist Center for Ethics, entitled, Is Racism at Heart of the Disdain for Public Schools?:
As slavery was at the heart of the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845, racism was at the heart […]
Daryl Cobranchi finds the most interesting disparagers of homeschooling. You may recall that recently, he pointed us to the fifth grade teacher whose criticisms of homeschooling were greeted by a chorus of responses from Daryl’s readers, and who, in turn, responded with profanity-laden emails (Daryl tells us that this teacher has since apologized for […]
It was an interesting story at the Get Schooled! blog over at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A school has a unique approach to detention: it doesn’t hold detention after school, “because parents will often try to get a child excused from an afternoon detention because of a legitimate or bogus scheduling problem” (that by itself […]
What is the purpose of college? And I think it has to be more than just “educate students” or “encourage student learning.” Those kinds of answers are really just begging the question, and they don’t distinguish college from, say, high school.
I really want to know.
Well! You haven’t really seen Easter bonnets until you’ve seen the Easter Hat Parade in the village of nearby Dillsboro. We’ve been meaning to get to the Parade for five years now, and we finally made it yesterday.
The Parade involves a bunch of antique cars, followed by entrants in the Easter Hat contest. […]