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[kimberlysteele]

 

 

 

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[(Anonymous)]

Kimberly Those are some ugly pictures you posted. I really don’t like that fellow

On to better stuff. Tell us about your new school.

Will O

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you. Yeah, I deleted them. It upsets me that he is able to get away with such horrors but posting about it really does not help.

The deck is stacked against me as far as the school is concerned. Nevertheless, I'm foolish enough to go for it anyway! Woot!

About the school

[cs2]

I'm guessing this will be some kind of charter school? Are you planning to hire private tutors that can teach all the grade levels? In my experience, private tutoring is much cheaper than tuition.

Re: About the school

[kimberlysteele]

Probably. I am planning to hire lots of teachers/tutors. My goal will be to make it affordable to people who don't have high incomes.

[mollari]

Hi Kimberly, just a quick update on where I am, since it ties into several of the questions I've asked on your divination posts lately.

It looks like I will not be moving to Quebec anytime soon: the rules that have been drafted between Ontario and Quebec will make it impossible for people to move between the provinces if they have anything which requires regular travel between them. Since my electrical program has a weekly lab, this will rule out moving to Gatineau.

I'll make do here for now. I've found an apartment close to where I live that's affordable, and available in July. I'm still looking for May or June while the paperwork is finalized, but the government making it illegal to do apartment viewings mixed with a crazy real estate market has made it hard to find anything, so I think Ill go with the apartment for July. The funny part is that it's with Brigil, the company I was looking at over in Gatineau! Which does seem to support your read it was a good one to look at, albeit in a way I wasn't expecting in the least.

[kimberlysteele]

Interesting! Thanks for the feedback.

I don't envy you Canadians right now. I always thought we Americans were the insane ones until this whole Scamdemic thing went down. As it turns out, We the People of Walmart are far more rational and have much better leadership, and trust me, that's not a state anywhere near "good" as our leaders are terrible.

I hope you are able to complete your course and escape to the neighboring province eventually.

[causticus]

How's the library been coming along?

I've been thinking of possibly starting up a similar endeavor in my local area, after I move out of the city and into a more sane outlying area. How large (and topic-diverse) of a book collection do you think one might need in order to make such a project viable?

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks for asking! I'm building a great library. Here are a small fraction of its books that have been cataloged: https://www.librarything.com/profile/kimberlysteele

My goal is to catalog 1000 books by February 2022 and then start with that thousand.

[mollari]

Speaking of insanity by Canadian governments:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-considers-move-to-make-remote-learning-permanent-for-all/

Online education for high school or colleges, sure. I don't find it works, but some do. But this would include elementary schools. This is totally and completely insane....

[open_space]

The amount of stupidity that I've heard for the past year baffles me in ways I was not aware of... Thank God I have not had to talk with mostly anyone ever since but I've heard of some truly nasty interactions out there.

[kimberlysteele]

Wow. That's all fine and good if they want to stop charging for it, and if they refund all property taxes paid in for the last year and never charge the "good schools" portion of property taxes again. Also, all of the teachers and school administrators get their pay reduced by half.

[lp9]

Wow, that is crazy! Though I have seen some school systems around me, in the more suburban areas, offering an all-virtual option for next school year for people who opt-in.

I am also really concerned here about the movement here to require vaccination for all college students, faculty, and staff. There are, at this point, I believe over 100 colleges mandating this.

[(Anonymous)]

Kimberly,
We are in a home school co-op. It is wonderful.
I'd suggest HSLDA for the home school families ($11/month) if they're comfortable with the religious side of it-it's pretty light by my books, but their milage may vary. I don't know anything about your state's laws but they're probably horrible: most states are more interested in keeping kids in the system than education.

If your group isn't comfortable with HSLDA, maybe one is an attorney who'd be willing to be on-call for the group in a similar way. I suspect that you'll need one: it's far easier to hassle low-income folks than high income to get those school-income-generators back in the classroom, and if they're coming from public school, the schools know where they are. If you have a CPS agent on your doorstep, "here, talk to my attorney" is magic: takes you from terror to calm. (Forever home schoolers like us are less on the radar, though no child is completely off the radar.)

Best wishes for your projects. I love your school idea: it's something I've considered doing myself . . . someday, when I have fewer other commitments.

BoysMom

homeschool / private school

[(Anonymous)]

It's been 20 years since we homeschooled, but at the time Home School Legal Defense Association did not advise private schools, just homeschools.

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you! The HSLDA looks like a great resource. I am definitely going to have an on-call attorney either way.

School Stuff

[randomactsofkarmasc]

Kimberly,

I am not in the same state as you, so what I know about charter schools and home schools in my state won't necessarily apply to you. But it might help, so I thought I'd share.

I served on a charter school board for a few years. This website was extremely helpful: https://www.sccharterschools.org/ Perhaps there is a similar organization in your state that has policy templates, training, etc., that would meet your state's requirements.

I currently work for a school district, running a science center. Out-of-district groups can visit our center and we get quite a few home school groups. https://www.carolinahomeschooler.com/ is probably the largest. They have a pretty detailed website and you could probably get some good ideas about different types of activities you could offer at your co-op.

Another idea for your library is to get some science 'lab materials'. Many of the home school groups that visit our center do so because their families are either uncomfortable teaching some science concepts or they don't have the materials to do it properly. Perhaps you could get donations locally (when I was in the classroom, one of the local medical labs upgraded their microscopes and gave us all there old ones) or, once you are established, you could get grants through places like https://www.donorschoose.org/.

Regarding curriculum, I do not think I am qualified to help develop a curriculum on discursive meditation. I don't think I have been doing it long enough to try to teach others. But, when you get to the point of needing science resources, I'll be happy to help!

On a slightly different note, I finished (my first reading of :-) ) CosDoc today. Had one fabulous "click! OMG! That makes SO MUCH SENSE!" moment (which was nice) and one "click! OMG! That potentially would make something else make so much sense, but now I have to go find that chapter and read it again and make sure it really fits like I think it does" (which is good, but now I really feel I need to reread the whole thing again). But I really want to read The Mystical Quabalah, because it seems like that was referenced many times in CosDoc. Have you read MQ yet? Would you be willing to do a book club on that?

I am not sure your policy on posting links, so if this doesn't get published in the comments, I completely understand.

Have a great weekend!

Re: School Stuff

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you for this! It is very, very helpful.

I'm excited that you are making sense out of the CosDoc! I have not read The Mystical Qabalah but I do plan on doing so. If I do, I'll totally make a Book Club for it. I have studied the Qabalah via the Tarot to some degree, so it's not totally foreign territory.

Fresh hymn

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Kimberly,
I just noticed you recorded a fresh orphic hymn to Aphrodite. It's awesome, thanks for this.
Edu

Re: Fresh hymn

[kimberlysteele]

You're welcome! Glad you are enjoying it.

Supposed Leak

[kimberlysteele]

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HN45vkchJKWE/?fbclid=IwAR3uAhq69QdoUuhNLKwxEPDJj2fPzWPVjNJgQcXFUDk4rzhBAxZiNxprvnE

Supposedly an ex-Pfizer scientist has leaked that everyone who got the vaccine will be dead in three years. I don't believe it. I do believe many of them will end up with mysterious ailments, infertility, and auto-immune problems that cannot be traced back to the vaccine.

Re: Supposed Leak

[(Anonymous)]

I hope like h@&$ that this scientist is wrong. Almost everyone I love has taken the vaccine. They are not really pushing me to get it but they are genuinely confused about why I don’t want to get it.

Will O

Patapan

[(Anonymous)]

I dont think I'm speeling Patapan correctly. But I want to try playing it on the Penny whistle. And my advice on where to find materials for that?

Re: Patapan

[kimberlysteele]

I can notate it for you in a few minutes -- is your penny whistle in a certain key?

[houseofmirrors]

I've noticed something lately. Over the past few months there's been an upsurge in popularity of creepypasta stories and videos that follow a formula like this:

"I found a book / note / diary full of crazy and specific rules about really weird situations that are going to happen. If I follow these rules I will live, but if not I'll surely die or worse"

I feel like this is a subconscious reaction to the life people have been subjected to over the past year and a half. A subconscious cry out and an attempt to deal with the presence of increasingly fickle, nonsensical rules imposed for seemingly no good reason. But more that you will find yourself in crazy situations but if you just follow the script everything will be okay. In some ways its a cope:

Wear your mask so you don't die. If someone robs you hand them your money. If someone accuses you of privilege just go along with it and you will be okay. If you see riots just call them peaceful protests and you'll live.


In other ways its a cry out for a wish to know what all the rules even are, and a wish that they could at least be exciting and not soul grinding.

The first such story I found felt like it was from a time before 2020 and it felt fresh and interesting. It was "The Calgary Journals" and was more in the spirit of a quest for power. But the newer ones feel very much more like a cry of pain than a quest for magic.

[kimberlysteele]

That seems like a cogent analysis to me. I would highly expect such a creepypasta to show up in the form of online RPGs if it has not already.

It's nearly 90 degrees today and I saw three different young men walking alone on the sidewalk with masks on. For men, wearing a mask is the ultimate "I give up" on being brave, assertive, dominant, and all those other things we have come to associate with masculinity. The mask is the last hurrah of the salary class before it and its virtue signaling gets sucked into the void. The entirely buried, subconscious reason for wearing it is a fervent wish to continue the dream of Jetsons-narrative Progress. Representative Mo Brooks recently called out Biden and his administration, saying "In a general sense, the Biden Administration is operating in an alternate reality. They are not in the same reality you and I are in, or that the rest of American citizens are in. It’s almost like Alice in Wonderland looking through the looking glass.”

The salary class and its aspirants have had a psychotic break. They wear a mask as a superstitious symbol. They think it keeps the dream of Progress from ending, and just like Biden and his crew, they are completely detached, sniffing their own farts in a doomed house of mirrors.