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Whoa!!!
Can you link us to your hubbies article when it's done? Is there a website connected with his paper??
No matter what, keep me informed!

Homeschooling is the best decision we ever made! My daughter was a zoner and would not get the work done during the day (quiet was never demanded in the class). We would get three pages of homework + a four page spelling packet to be completed in a week. I have no problem with homework but at the end of the week, she would bring home 25 completed papers. Figure it out. They wanted to give her detention for not completing the work in class but when I asked the teacher how we could "work together" to keep her "on task" (to use their jargon), she told me, "I don't know". Rrrrrr.
There is a great bunch of homeschoolers here and there is great support. Think about it!

Can you link us to your hubbies article when it's done? Is there a website connected with his paper??

Nope, its a small weekly he just took over. He quit his job at the Macon Telegraph because they were a bunch of liberal weenies who didn't care that he was a dad, and wanted him to commute 100 miles a day, after 5 years at the paper. God opened another door for him, and we get Daddy at home now more.

As soon as he is done with it, I will post it here though. Boy is he mad.

The school district is ranked one of the last in GA, which is last in the nation: hence bottom of the bottom. BUT they just raised property taxes again 37%, after raising them 26% last year. Money=solutions. NOT! The citizens raised hell, the Superintendent quit (his kids didn't even go to the schools!) but the taxes went through. Luckily, one of the conservatives who have flocked to our area has been named as the replacement, and he is hell bent on straightening out the mess we are in.

My daughter is starting to do this. She's gifted, and I think she is getting bored (in 1st grade).

Her twin sister has severe speech problems. I've always thought it was better for her to be around a lot of kids, but her speech is not improving like I would like it to. In the summer when I was working with her, her speech improved. Her reading went from a level 5 to a level 11 in 3 months. Since school started, her reading has only gone to a level 14.

Both girls are bored with math. They are ready for adding more than 2 numbers adding up to 20. They are ready for carrying (regrouping) and for multiplication and simple division. They still do not know how to tell time. I don't have time to work with them on it because of their homework.