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Visit Why Homeschool: Why We Homeschool - Part 2
Part of our curriculum was Consumer Math. The book we used had chapters on how to balance a checkbook, how to create a budget, how to fill out an income tax form, how to calculate interest on a loan and other real life math problems.
I was shocked to learn that the public school kids didn't have anything like it and unfortunately some of the public school graduates don't have a clue how to balance a checkbook, create a budget or fill out their taxes. The push for kids to learn higher mathematics has left many woefully ignorant of how to do simple mathematics necessary to adult life.
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- Why Homeschooling Works ~ No Or Little Bureaucracy
Homeschool Parents/Teachers are able to pick out the curriculum and textbooks that best suits their children/students. Unlike the public school system where the teacher may have very little input into what textbooks will be used in their classroom. This...
- Some Of The Posters On The Dr. Phil Board Have Dumb Ideas About Homeschoolers
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Visit the Homeschool Cafe to read Natalie's post Homeschool Quandary and learn about Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds plans for homeschoolers in Mississippi. Wouldn't it be nice if he would work on solving the problems in the public school...
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Why Homeschool: Why We Homeschool - Part 2
Visit Why Homeschool: Why We Homeschool - Part 2
Part of our curriculum was Consumer Math. The book we used had chapters on how to balance a checkbook, how to create a budget, how to fill out an income tax form, how to calculate interest on a loan and other real life math problems.
I was shocked to learn that the public school kids didn't have anything like it and unfortunately some of the public school graduates don't have a clue how to balance a checkbook, create a budget or fill out their taxes. The push for kids to learn higher mathematics has left many woefully ignorant of how to do simple mathematics necessary to adult life.
- Notes From A Homeschooling Mom: Free Homeschool Book Giveaway
Notes From A Homeschooling Mom: Free homeschool Book Giveaway OK, I hope I am following the rules. I am suppose to tell you Why I homeschool. Gosh there are so many reasons I don't know where to start. We started homeschooling because the public school...
- Why Homeschooling Works ~ No Or Little Bureaucracy
Homeschool Parents/Teachers are able to pick out the curriculum and textbooks that best suits their children/students. Unlike the public school system where the teacher may have very little input into what textbooks will be used in their classroom. This...
- Some Of The Posters On The Dr. Phil Board Have Dumb Ideas About Homeschoolers
I visited the Dr. Phil message board on homeschooling again today. There is one poster that is convinced that all homeschoolers are on welfare and that SHE pays more taxes because she belongs to a dual income family then single income homeschooling families...
- From The Cafe
Visit the Homeschool Cafe to read Natalie's post Homeschool Quandary and learn about Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds plans for homeschoolers in Mississippi. Wouldn't it be nice if he would work on solving the problems in the public school...
- Things To Ponder
Would You Let Them Scan Your Child? One family said NO, but their child was still scanned. Still, a substitute teacher's mistake proved just how vulnerable children who opt out can be. "They rounded up all the kids in our son's class and they...