Posted by Happyflower on February 3, 2008, at 11:22:22
In reply to Re: Learning who your friends are and are not » Happyflower, posted by Dinah on February 3, 2008, at 9:10:26
> It sounds as if you probably have more natural intelligence than I do. I seem to remember having to work a lot harder to get straight A's. Not everyone is so fortunate as to find schoolwork so easy. My part time job and full time school was as much as I could handle, with no room left for partying at all.
Not sure about the natural intelligence, lol. I know when I was growing up I got C's on purpose because of my mom, she would get jealous, and make my life hell, I would even change my grades on my report card to make them lower. I find now that I have to work harder to retain info than when I was younger. I guess I start early in the semester, and study gradually each week before a test ( I can't cram) but I have this huge desire to learn as much as possible. I am paying big bucks you know, but I am going to be applying for some scholarships to help. I didn't realize there is all that free money they give out! I think I will be applying for 30 of them, lol.
Homeschooling is actually easier than you might think, but my kids love to learn like me, so I don't have problems with them studying and I get along with them great. We do field trips when I don't have school, this semester my classes are just on 2 days. I also try to balance my hard subject with the easier ones and I have at least one class I really want to take to keep myself motivated. Our public school where I live are failing miserablly, only 30 % are passing the ISTEP, and they have about a 50% graduation rate. When my daughter was in the 1st grade, she spent half her day in the library. The school had no money for field trips or anything extra, so I feel they are getting a more rounded education, with time to study things that interest them the most. They play after school with other kids, so it works well. I also school them all year, with one week breaks built in. But I do plan on them attending public high school in a short time. This is when I will be in graduate school, so the timing will work out great. The grad program I am looking at pays 25,000 stipend and pays for all school classes and room and board (applied to my morgage) which are over 1500 a credit hour. Plus it is in my own backyard. lol
> You homeschool your children, and take a full courseload? The choice to homeschool would be more than I could handle all by itself. I think it's absolutely wonderful that you can do all these things and excel.
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