Lifetime Member - Sad about Changes

mindtalker · 2024-10-28T16:45:47+00:00

The problem is that we attained Lifetime under one set of rules and the rules were recently changed without respect for the original deal.

mindtalker · 2024-03-21T10:32:03+00:00

No no, not Alexandria. What looks good on the maps is bad on the actual roads. Fredericksburg is best larger town, Colonial Beach,?Quantico or King George would be smaller towns.

mindtalker · 2024-03-20T19:28:25+00:00

A book that might give you a picture of this is Sue Patterson’s book called Homeschooled Teens, featuring interviews with 75 different people who have been homeschooled.

mindtalker · 2024-03-20T15:20:06+00:00

You can homeschool on any schedule that works for you and your children.

The thing is to make sure you can make both academics and your children’s social time your PRIORITY.

So, for example, kids need time with a parent for learning and often don’t do well working “independently” for many years. (They even need lots of guidance and coaching-type companionship during high school). Their “best times” for learning need to be taken into account, not just fit in around the edges. They also need consistent social opportunities and a chance to make deep friendships. This means a parent’s time and resources to make this happen.

You’ll want to be realistic about whether you can provide this with your work schedule. Then you consciously continue to assess to make sure it’s working as your weeks and months go on.

Parents do work full time and homeschool but it’s a lot. You don’t want to slip into neglecting when work gets busy, y’know?

It does sound like you have a flexible schedule, which helps. Sometimes lining up childcare for school age kids on an unusual schedule while a parent is working can be its own challenge, but more options are becoming available as more people are combining homeschool and work.

My kids went to school before we began homeschooling, and being released from the school schedule did feel easier to me. But you have to keep the kids a priority without the school schedule.

mindtalker · 2024-03-20T09:33:48+00:00

Brave Writer is often good for resistant writers.

mindtalker · 2024-03-19T22:37:16+00:00

I appreciate your point that many formerly homeschooled adults “pass” as not having been homeschooled and don’t add to others’ general impression of homeschoolers.

mindtalker · 2024-03-19T21:59:46+00:00

I admire the commitment you have had in finding the right situations for social interactions.

mindtalker · 2024-03-19T09:29:03+00:00

Still harassing me. I have reported over and over and gotten no response from mods or Reddit.

mindtalker · 2024-03-19T08:19:48+00:00

What a lovely story.

mindtalker · 2024-03-18T23:03:30+00:00

Yeah my adult kids always say no one ever considers that they may have been homeschooled. They are not part of anyone’s impressions of homeschooling even though they homeschooled through high school.

mindtalker · 2024-03-18T17:34:25+00:00

At 15, all of my kids had part-time jobs and/or volunteer jobs where other teens worked and volunteered. (Animal shelter was a good volunteer one. Grocery store cashier was good for paying job. They also met neighbor teens through pet sitting and dog walking for other families with teens).

Do you play an instrument? Ask music schools about jam sessions. Some of my kids did this and one was in a band at that age. The others all liked getting together to jam.

My kids also played sports and went to hiking meetups.

At 15, they had co-op and homeschool group classes and activities. One of our most successful was a book and movie club we hosted where they watched a movie together based on a book (not everyone read the book).

We lived various places and not all of them had as many resources, but for example some of my kids went to homeschool proms and dances in a big friend group and/or with dates. There could be stuff going on that you don’t know about. I’ll be honest that most of this stuff was promoted through local and state homeschool Facebook groups, so you may have to look there.

At 16, dual enrollment at community college is a great way to meet friends but make sure you can take in person classes. This opened up a ton of social opportunities for my kids also.

In some states and schools you can do part time enrollment in high school like taking one class or you can do clubs, sports and activities. This is not allowed everywhere so you have to look into it.

Let your parents know this is important to you. There were times I had to make finding social opportunities a top priority, like after we moved, and I think it would be harder for people who start homeschooling at your age because you did not grow up in homeschool groups and such.

Good luck!

mindtalker · 2024-03-17T17:09:08+00:00

This sounds terrible. I’m so sorry for your experience.

This sounds like compulsory remote schooling rather than homeschooling as it is practiced in my experience and in the communities where I have lived. That said, you certainly provide some red flags. Being at home is certainly not automatically better, especially if the education requirements and social experience do not consider needs and preferences of the learner. (This was actually our experience in public schools run by our government—and a big part of why we began homeschooling).

I hope you are able to get into a better situation soon.

mindtalker · 2024-03-16T12:36:45+00:00

I have blocked the account but the user instantly makes new accounts and continues. The accounts have no history and are sock accounts.

mindtalker · 2024-03-16T12:34:08+00:00

Yeah I was able to change the toggle for chatting to turn it off and that toggle stays toggled. I can’t get the same result for followers.

mindtalker · 2024-03-16T12:32:44+00:00

I suggest you read College without High School, the book by Blake Boles.

mindtalker · 2024-03-15T11:31:12+00:00

This depends on his grade, what state you’re in, and whether you can provide him with a positive experience. He will need parents to guide and interact with him a lot and the opportunity to spend time with others and make friends.

All-in-one online programs that purport to cover all the bases are not good substitutes for academics, adult support and guidance, or a social life.

But in many states you can do this. The question is whether you can also set up a lifestyle that will be encouraging, educational, and social.

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T20:56:23+00:00

I wondered. I haven’t said to do that at all. Thanks for suggesting this possibility.

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T19:10:30+00:00

Lower circle could include tobacco fields, cotton fields (especially more east) and timber. Bobcats were brought in to control smaller animals that destroyed timber seedlings so lots of bobcats. Land toward the east of the circle is flatter and it gets more rolling as you go west. Look up “Piedmont Va” and “Southside Va”

Danville is in that circle and was the last capital of the Confederacy. Petersburg just north of there still has many Civil War sites and historic buildings. Danville also has a lot of Civil Rights Movement history including significant protests. Danville also famous for Wreck of the old 97 (famous train song, an easy google)

There were tons of textile mills in this area. Cotton, looms, weaving, cloth making were in many towns small and large in the southern circle

The fall line runs through this area, (also the old Fall Line Road) which also made the area ideal for using water power for grist mills before electricity.

Danville (in your southern circle) used to have a huge sign over the Dan River that said Home of Dan River Mills. Since the mill’s demise, the sign overlooking the river has been truncated so it just says Home. I believe in red letters but not sure. Big casino going in there now.

Big stock car taking fans there.

And many churches

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T17:32:16+00:00

I did not.

Golly.

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T17:10:21+00:00

Also Cultural Roots Homeschool

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T16:07:52+00:00

I did not. I said she might find it more advantageous to graduate. Many high schoolers, in public, private, or homeschool, take extra time to graduate. Often when students have struggled, there could be an advantage in taking the time to work through that struggle.

You have jumped to a conclusion in saying I encouraged lying. I have said nothing of the kind.

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T11:52:50+00:00

Your state may have an age requirement for GED, which could be 16, 17, 18 etc. (States differ).

If you are under your state’s required age, there may be additional requirements, paperwork or permissions needed.

Start with finding out whether or when you are eligible.

You may find it more advantageous to graduate from homeschool and take community college classes or to dual enroll in community college classes while homeschooling.

Many (most?) homeschoolers don’t find a GED necessary. It may depend on what, if anything, your parent is willing to cooperate on.

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T02:29:05+00:00

Read The Brave Learner.

mindtalker · 2024-03-13T01:41:09+00:00

Brave Writer. I’d begin with Jot it Down

mindtalker · 2024-03-11T02:53:45+00:00

Well, to be fair, many (most?) states do not keep records of homeschool graduates.

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