TheCatholicCrow
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I sometimes berate myself for having picked such a long name
HAHAHA .... yeah ... we can't really shorten it to just "dragon" either ... got a few of those around here
I sometimes berate myself for having picked such a long name
Rugby has been described as "a game for hooligans played by Gentlemen" where as football [aka soccer] is "a game for gentlemen played by Hooligans".
When it's played well it can be full of grace and power.
3) They need better ways to have accelerated study programs in highschool. Instead of graduating early what if you had some teachers do before and after school or independent study hours where students could move through material at their own pace and into new classes within the amount of a year so that maybe where a math class might've taken a year now it only takes a semester and then we can move on
It's called home school.
^That.
I'm homeschooled and am about to graduate, but I've been homeschooled through my whole life pretty much. I can do my subjects in whatever order, at whatever time, and at whatever speed I wish. I can take a day off and work on the weekends if I want; I can spend all day doing one subject if I get behind in it. I do a lot of my subjects at home, but you can take academic classes, do online programs...There's an unlimited amount of flexibility.
Also I can do school in my pajamas while listening to electronic music and eating ice cream.
As long as I graduate, lol.
My issue is I want to get into Naval Academy, and to do everything that I am doing currently, and make it there, I have to be public schooled. I couldn't do Band outside of school, I couldn't do tennis as a sport with a team, I wouldn't have any administrative or teacher connections for anything, and I'd graduate in about seven months if I really put my mind to it. I'd be off the mark by about a year XD
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My lovely young daughter (now in her mid 20's, how time fly's) was in a particularly regressive religious home school program during her early teen years. As best I could tell from the literature, the people behind that program believed a woman's place was in the home, and as such they needed ONLY basic literacy and math skills.
I put her in the public school system upon gaining custody. They wanted to drop her three grades below what the program claimed her grade level was. She did graduate on time - but it meant extra classes and summer school - part of that in the form of a summer job at a fast food joint. Her math skills are still subpar - she bombed a few college classes as a direct result of that, and eventually dropped out. (At which point the student loan debt kicked in. Add a baby, and...well, good thing I'm around.)
Oh wow. O_O I'm not sure what you mean by "home school program" though. Elaborate?
I've heard my share of negative home schooling stories. Not been directly involved in any--mine and my home school friends' experiences have been extremely positive on the whole--but the "religious cult" kind ARE out there. I'm not going to deny that some are like that. I just seriously wish people didn't think we were ALL like that. Or that none of us have friends. All of us can't even count the number of times we've gotten, "how do you make friends?" "I couldn't do that, I would want friends!" and the like. I've been out with my FIVE friends and had people by chance learn we were homeschooled and assume we were all sisters...
It would be nice if homeschooling got to be more mainstream. The weird looks and questions we all get...
Now I have people (you guys and gals) that say more than "that sounds good", I'm finally motivated to start my first draft. Came to the realisation of how much work I have to do to become a half decent writer, then how much more to become a good writer, and it's like, why do I want be a writer again?
"The story of a 100,000 words begins with a single keystroke." Adapted from Lao Tzu.
Well, I've got stubbornness in spades (which has exponentially increased in my 7 year old daughter, much to my delight), which is why I'm afraid to start because I know it will consume me until it's done. Actually thinking of doing some short stories in the Fantastical 7 Seas and try very hard not to overthink it, just have some fun. Read some fantasy, which I haven't been able to do because I get halfway through a book, start thinking about my story, and don't pick it up again. "Such is life" - probably fictional last quote of Ned Kelly.
Hey, so I just posted about this on The Dragon Writes Again, but has anyone ever considered, or realized, that Science Fiction is essentially fantasy from a different perspective???? Like... if we were two hundred years in the future, present day would be a great fantasy setting... but two hundred years ago, we were living by the current definition of Science Fiction! Abstract theories are my babies XD
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That's why Star Wars is a hard one to classify ... you have things like Midichlorians on one hand , and space travel/ aliens on the other.