This is Equestrian Girl's Guinea Pig, Maggie. You have to admit she's pretty darn cute!Horses: Stopped at TSC for another $18 bottle of thrush treatment. I've had about enough of this stuff! I sure hope this new farrier can do a better job and we can get the boy's tootsies in better shape. These $120 pedicures every 3-4 weeks are killing me!
Motocross: The laundry from Motocross Boy's big weekend made it in the house. But not to the laundry room. Amazingly small amount...though it is about time to do all the blankets in the camper...
Homeschooling: The average public school year in Michigan is now 171 days, but some districts operate on 160-day or shorter schedules, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Michigan State Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Flanagan told the Free Press that students need more learning time in order to compete globally. The state House has approved a new minimum of 170 days; that proposal is now before the Senate.
The Obama administration is backing an even longer school year as part of its school reform platform, the Free Press reported, though University of Michigan education professor Brian Rowan said that studies show the number of days spent in school doesn't predict international differences in achievement.
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SOURCE:
The Detroit Free Press, "Push is on to add days to Michigan
school year," June 11, 2009
http://freep.com/article/
Me again. Instead of requiring more days, why not put more learning into each day? As I opined earlier, we found that we could easily fit a full day's worth of learning into 2-3 hours at home compared to the 5-6 hours that it took to do the same amount of learning at public school.
Last week Equestrian Girl's public school friend who is also a grade ahead of her looked at what she's doing in math. She couldn't do any of it. I'm going to ask the same of another friend tomorrow who went to school with her 1st through 5th grade...should be interesting since they used to be at about the same levels all through those grades.
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Very cute little guinea pig.
I wish they could do something about the schools for the kids nowadays to make them better. It seems to me there is a dumbing down going on and the kids are suffering. They could fit so much more learning into a full day of school, but then the teachers would have to work a full day too.
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