You know that SB and all the boys went to Big Bend last week. They went with several of SBs co-workers.
There is one man in his unit who enjoys picking at SB over the fact that we homeschool our kids. I'll call him HS, he did not go to Big Bend. Yesterday, he tells SB, "I can't pick on you anymore, my brother is going to start homeschooling his kids."
To which another man, D, responds, "You shouldn't pick on him for his kids being homeschooled at all. I just spent a week with them, and they are intelligent, can talk about anything and are the most well-behaved kids I've ever been around." :-) I'm smiling the biggest about the well-behaved part.
More bragging, not about my own geniuses. My very good homeschooling friend has had to quit homeschooling. Her kids entered public school for the first time ever, three weeks ago. No one had any hope for her 12 year old son doing well on the math TAKS (stoopid [another KC phrase]Texas standardized test). Well, he passed. And her daughter who has severe speech apraxia made an "A" in reading on her very first report card, ever.
So, yes, I am doing a little bit of homeschool mom cheering today. And so so thankful that my kids don't have to take that stoopid TAKS test. I could go on and on about the idiocy of these tests which do not test knowledge and are designed to force schools to compete for funding, but I won't.
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