Socialization
Progressive homeschooling
Ask Rockridge: Can a Progressive Support Homeschooling? — Rockridge Nation So, yes progressives can support homeschooling. But apparently with quite a few “ifs”. I really can’t bring myself to read through all the comments. I’m sure there is the usual education as the foundation for democracy and so on. I’m sure there are plenty of [...]
Back to school
Broadsheet: Women’s Articles, Women’s Stories, Women’s Blog – Salon.com It’s that exciting time of year when adolescent girls across the nation go in search of the essentials for starting off the school year prepared and ready to learn as a hot new ‘tween: pink, padded bras, T-shirts with slogans declaring their total lack of smarts [...]
Basketball saves socially inept homeschooler
Who knew that sports writers were so well informed about homeschooling to be able to make the following statement? Sports – StatesmanJournal.com: Unlike a lot the typical home-schooled students, Berrier (pronounced like Perrier) is well-adjusted and blends in enough with his McKay teammates that outsiders can’t tell the difference. And then there is the basketball [...]
Reindeer games at McKinney North High School
For those who read “Rudolf and the road not taken” post, it looks like the reindeer were in McKinney High School. Working backwards, here are the “apologies” from the reindeer about not letting Rudolph join any reindeer games. Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | McKinney News: “I don’t have a senior year,” [...]
Rudolph and the road not taken
I didn’t watch any Christmas shows this year. But on Christmas Eve, we somehow got on the topic of the show on Rudolph, the elf that wanted to be a dentist, the island of misfits, and the abominable snowman. We all agreed that the other reindeer were mean and somehow that’s overlooked in the story. [...]
More public school socialization
Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Education Columnist Scott Parks: For those who abhor injustice, Judge Lindsay’s spine-tingling narrative is comparable to the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. But the judge’s writing is nonfiction. And it should be required reading for every principal and administrator in Dallas Independent School [...]
And What About Socialization?
This is a must read column no matter how you are educating your children. Jay Mathews – School Boundaries, Money and Race – washingtonpost.com: Grice is my guest columnist today. This is a big risk for me since it is clear she is a much better writer, and much braver about getting to the heart [...]
Peer pressure and socialization
WOAI: San Antonio News – Child Beaten Unconscious On School Bus: The Northside Independent School District says a fourth grade boy was beaten and kicked in the back of a crowded school bus Friday morning. The students were being taken to McDermott Elementary School off Huebner. Apparently a 4th and 5th grader beat up the [...]
Socialization?
Grand Avenue Comic, June 7, 2006 http://www.comics.com/comics/grandave/ The setup for the strip, a girl in a lunch room, “The bad news: Grandma still humiliates me in front of all the kids by packing notes in my lunch!” So this is funny because it society in general accepts that this happens in the lunchroom. Why do [...]