--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5W00003Date: 05/25/97 From: SHARI MAURICIO Time: 11:17pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Robinson s-t curriculum Has anyone used or heard anything, good or bad, about the Robinson Self-Teaching Curriculum? It's a grade 1-12 curriculum on 22 CD ROMS. It's by a man named Dr. Arthur Robinson based out of Cave Junction, Oregon. If anyone has actually seen the material on these CDs I would like your opinion. -Shari --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Tulare Co Office of Educ, Visalia, CA (1:214/33.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5X00000Date: 05/27/97 From: MIKE YUST Time: 02:59am \/To: APRIL DAWN (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: a riddle RE: Re: a riddle BY: April Dawn to Mike Yust on Sat May 24 1997 15:03:04 > you just let it fall! > > A man and his son were in a teribble car accident. The dad died and > the son was seriuosly hurt. The ambulance took him to the hospital to > have an opperation, but the doctor said, " I cant opperate on this boy > because he's my son. " > > How is the boy the doctors son? I was refering to a junker car aka a "lemon" :) and she is his mother Chaos --- Skyhawk's Nightmare * Origin: The Aurora: Home of Anime Northwest 1-253-474-6409 (1:138/293) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5X00001Date: 05/27/97 From: JEAN FIEGE Time: 09:21pm \/To: SARAH NUNEZ (Read 1 times) Subj: Now what? SN> MSGID: 1:130/604 33856262 SN> PID: GED3 2.5 7777DK7 SN> TID: GE 1.1.g6 Hi Sarah, Just to introduce myself. I have a 20yr. old daughter, with Prader=Willi syndrome and have homeschooled her for last two years. Intellectually she functions at about 6-8 yrs with flashes of 12, as some delays are caught up. I'm an older Mum. I have homeschooled off and on most of my Daughters School life - because of eating and behaviour and medical problems, which made it difficult for her to remain at school full time. We live in Port Augusta, South Australia at the head of the Spencer Gulf. As I have recently been involved with discussions with others about Home Schooling young children I was interested in your question. SN> haven't yet told him that he won't be going to school with my second son SN> will be in third grade. Perhaps it would be best to wait until you are sure what you are going to do. SN> I'm already preparing to homeschool my oldest son next year, who will be SN> fifth grade, and I figure I can just add the younger one into the mix. SN> I'm wondering, though, is whether or not to also send him to a private SN> preschool for two or three afternoons a week. If I knew for sure that I SN> homeschooling him the following year, I might not bother, but we're taki I would recommend that you consider the pre-school option first untill you find your feet with Homeschoolin the older one - Children of that age need a certain amount of socialization with others of their own age. It could also be that it will lay the ground work for him to know - certain times are for play and certain times for work or lessons. I would also recommend that you involve him with the older one in the more social lessons - so he gets the idea of what is expected of him and you in your new role as teacher and mum!! The general concensus of opinion here is socialization at an early age BUT not a welter of it - as this tends to leave parents in the childs mind in the THEM camp which in turn could make it difficult to have him relate to you as both teacher and mother. As you seem to have a great many more clubs and organizations for them to join over there - I am sure socialization is not a problem. One thing I would say and that is had I known what I was in for, I would DEFINITELY have homeschooled from the start - full stop. SN> thing one year at a time. I had planned on starting with homeschooling SN> one, and adding another each year or as they reached fifth grade, so thi SN> throwing me for a loop. I can imagine your feelings, but hang in there, your ideas are good, you just have to work in the changes (Not easy I know) SN> What would you do if you were in my situation? I think basically I would look to homeschooling the younger one too, but in the meanwhile give yourself some breathing space while he is at preschool. Hope this rather rambling diatribe helps. Look forward to hearing from you further. If you feel I can help further just yell huh? Cheers...Jean. SN> * Origin: WordForce Mail-Only System, Republic of Texas (1:130/604) --- * MikeMayl v1.0 * The sermon can't rise above the one who delivers it * Origin: Flinders North BBS, +618-675-2065 (3:800/454) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5X00002Date: 05/25/97 From: LORI LORANGER Time: 10:31am \/To: GUY PUTNAM (Read 1 times) Subj: Subject:question about this conference Guy-= I've been homeschooling two daughters, 9 and near 13, since they were born. What can I help you with? I read this area periodically, and post when the spirit moves me. How old are your kids? Have you been homeschooling long? What state? (We're in WAshington state.) =-Lori --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Electronic Educator (1:105/114) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5X00003Date: 05/26/97 From: JARED THOMAS Time: 09:38pm \/To: APRIL DAWN (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: a riddle AD> A man and his son were in a teribble car accident. The dad died and AD> the son was seriuosly hurt. The ambulance took him to the hospital to AD> have an opperation, but the doctor said, " I cant opperate on this boy AD> because he's my son. " The Doctor is the boys Mother. :) <--> (\OO/)_____ (..)\ )\ <\--<\ --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Cool Family BBS Orting, WA (360)893-3632 (1:138/228) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5X00004Date: 05/26/97 From: APRIL DAWN Time: 01:29pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Franklin Grahm Hey, Praise God! The crusade was a success!!!!!!!!! SO many people came to the Lord this weekend! It was a true blessing to be able to be a part of that! Thanx for your prayers! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Tulare Co Office of Educ, Visalia, CA (1:214/33.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5Y00000Date: 05/28/97 From: C. INGERSOLL Time: 11:03am \/To: SHARI MAURICIO (Read 1 times) Subj: Robinson s-t curriculum Shari Mauricio caught All in the Camera Eye Focal Parallax [Robinson s-t curriculum] SM> Has anyone used or heard anything, good or bad, about the Robinson SM> Self-Teaching Curriculum? SM> It's a grade 1-12 curriculum on 22 CD ROMS. It's by a man named SM> Dr. Arthur Robinson based out of Cave Junction, Oregon. I know of Dr. Robinson from him being given the late Dr. Petr Beckmann's newsletter, Access to Energy, which was an excellent pro-technology, pro-freemarket monthly I subscribed to for many years. After Petr died, I never bothered resubscribing (there's just no substitute for Petr Beckmann's style and wit :) Although I do not know what is on the CDROMs, I know Robinson is a great advocate of science and technology, and would be interested in info for the cd's if you have it :) Sounds very promising. ... I can learn to compromise anything but my desires -Rush, _Resist_ ___ Feverish Flux v2.12 --- Renegade v 2112 Exp * Origin: Fly By Night * HaXeD HeXeD HiXed * (609)653-1FLY! (1:2623/71) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5Y00001Date: 05/20/97 From: PETE SNIDAL Time: 02:46pm \/To: DENIS BERNIER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Origin Lines Denis Bernier wrote in a message to Pete Snidal: PS> I think it makes it a lot more interesting to know where stuff is PS> coming from, don't you? DB> Yes, I think it would too, most of the origin are still DB> unknown just by looking at them, please insist again, DB> perhaps we will get to know from where the messages where DB> originated without having to ask .! Denis Bernier DB> (Montreal) DB> DB> --- Spot 1.3a #414 DB> * Origin: Le Club Amiga du Quebec - (514)684-7500 - DB> (1:167/151.19) OK, Denis, I'll ask again: HEY, EVERYBODY! BUG YOUR SYSOP TO CHANGE HIS/HER ORIGIN LINE TO REFLECT THE PLACE IT'S FROM! LIKE THIS: --- timEd-B10 * Origin: Kettle Valley Forum BBS - Grand Forks BC CANADA (1:354/910) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5Y00002Date: 05/20/97 From: PETE SNIDAL Time: 02:50pm \/To: ROB CANFIELD (Read 1 times) Subj: New Home School BBS Network Rob Canfield wrote in a message to All: RC> Hello All, RC> My wife and I home school our son (age 5) and our daughter RC> (age 1, no it's not too early) :) My parents who live near RC> us also homeschool my two nieces (ages 10 and 13). We are RC> very involved in homeschooling and homeschool support both RC> in our local group (Sacramento Council Of Parent Educators, RC> SCOPE), as well as within our church. We have a real desire RC> to support home schools both in our local area as well as RC> nationwide. RC> To this end, I have created a new BBS network called the RC> Home School Support Network (HSSNet). It is a fidonet style RC> message network with echos on curriculum, activities, legal RC> issues, and more. It is brand new and very small at this RC> point but I hope to see it grow as I believe it will be of RC> benfit to home school parents and students everywhere. RC> If you are a BBS sysop, or if you can get your BBS sysop RC> interested, please netmail me at 1:203/327 for more details. RC> I'm looking for systems that are willing to hub as well as RC> nodes. Oh, Gee, that makes sense! Let's start making more networks! What's wrong with Fidonet? Where are we heading with _this_ one? - a different network for every echo? Let's have a homeschool network, and a altnews network, and a brit_car network, and a teen-chat network, and our systems can spend the whole night calling each other back and forth as nodes on a zillion different networks! That's why we have more than one echo on Fidonet! Care to explain why your purpose wouldn't be served equally well just by creating another echo? Or just staying with this one? Seems to me that HOMESCHL is doing a just fine job of keeping homeschoolers, or those with an interest, in touch with each other. If, as a sysop, I have to set up with another network just to continue to offer the same service, I'll just have to settle for the half that Fido provides, thanks. I think your idea is silly. Just like setting up a second daily newspaper in a small town - that happened a few years ago here, and the upstarts went broke, I'm happy to say. But for the time that it was up and running, if you wanted to put in a classified ad, you had to put it in both papers. Ditto for reading. Nice networking! I have to stop now; I'm getting hot! --- timEd-B10 * Origin: Kettle Valley Forum BBS - Grand Forks BC CANADA (1:354/910) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: E5Y00003Date: 05/27/97 From: APRIL DAWN Time: 08:41am \/To: MIKE YUST (Read 1 times) Subj: a riddle okay, time fro a really hard one: There is a man hanging from a ceiling, dead. Under him is a puddle of water. There is nothing else in the room. How did the man hang himself. How did he die? --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Tulare Co Office of Educ, Visalia, CA (1:214/33.0)