My son spent the afternoon going through that link I posted earlier for free, on-line college classes. He was immediately contacted by one college and things were going along well . . . then the question of homeschooling arrived. Do you have a diploma from an accredited high school? Uh, no, we homeschooled. Could we get documentation from the local public school that high school basics have been met? Uh, no, we homeschooled.
The advisor spent 30 minutes on the phone with my very articulate son who doesn't use the word like every other word as sentence filler. Not a cool or awesome was forthcoming. Yet, a piece of paper deprives them of a more than adequate student. There are lots more schools to check out with the free on-line courses but it was very disappointing for my son. So many parents have to talk their children into getting a job or going to college. Here is one eager teen and he has to conform with the pack to be accepted.
Hey, not an entirely bad day as this child's darling mother has baked him a spice cake and is about to frost it with fluffy lemon icing.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Higher education at the right price?
http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything
This is interesting. Anyone with children heading to college or advanced high schoolers might want to check this out. My son just got off the phone with an advisor and has hopes of taking some on-line classes.
This is interesting. Anyone with children heading to college or advanced high schoolers might want to check this out. My son just got off the phone with an advisor and has hopes of taking some on-line classes.
Speaking of cleaning . . .
Couldn't resist sharing some quotes on cleaning given my sudden surge of under the cupboard efforts yesterday! I especially appreciated the last quote.
“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I believe in getting into hot water - it helps keep you clean.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes
“Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.”
Erma Bombeck
“God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.”
Dwight L. Moody
“If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake”
Groucho Marx
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks”
“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I believe in getting into hot water - it helps keep you clean.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes
“Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.”
Erma Bombeck
“God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.”
Dwight L. Moody
“If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake”
Groucho Marx
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks”
Unseen contentment?
I have three, large cupboards in my kitchen area that I use to store my fabric and sewing supplies. We were blessed to get a large area of space that allows for the dining table as well as room for my sewing table and the mentioned cupboards. It was especially convenient when the children were little as I could keep an eye on their school work and food cooking on the stove while I worked on my sewing projects.
Since the cupboards are so big and heavy, anything that falls behind them usually stays for a long while. Yesterday, I felt motivated to move them all out away from the wall and scrub, rinse, and wax the floors there. It was a struggle as I had to kind of rock them from side to side to gradually move them out of me and my mop's way. The whole project took a couple of hours as I had to wait for each area to dry before moving things back into place.
By the time my older daughter faced the day, she remarked on the now shiny floor and when I mentioned I had even done under the cupboards, she said, "Oh, did you use those easy-mover discs Dad had when he moved the cupboard to paint the kitchen?" I flexed my sore muscles and said, "No . . ." What easy-mover discs?"
Anyway, it is amazing how having a clean and shiny floor under a cupboard and unseen can make you feel so good. No one can tell, one way or the other, the state of the floor under them but every time I come into the room, I know. No one has to know but the fact that I know and care is an excellent feeling. Kind of like the state of one's soul. No one knows what's going on in another person's soul but if you are in the Grace of God, all is right with the world whether anyone else knows or not.
Since the cupboards are so big and heavy, anything that falls behind them usually stays for a long while. Yesterday, I felt motivated to move them all out away from the wall and scrub, rinse, and wax the floors there. It was a struggle as I had to kind of rock them from side to side to gradually move them out of me and my mop's way. The whole project took a couple of hours as I had to wait for each area to dry before moving things back into place.
By the time my older daughter faced the day, she remarked on the now shiny floor and when I mentioned I had even done under the cupboards, she said, "Oh, did you use those easy-mover discs Dad had when he moved the cupboard to paint the kitchen?" I flexed my sore muscles and said, "No . . ." What easy-mover discs?"
Anyway, it is amazing how having a clean and shiny floor under a cupboard and unseen can make you feel so good. No one can tell, one way or the other, the state of the floor under them but every time I come into the room, I know. No one has to know but the fact that I know and care is an excellent feeling. Kind of like the state of one's soul. No one knows what's going on in another person's soul but if you are in the Grace of God, all is right with the world whether anyone else knows or not.
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