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Thank you! I am going to do a post about the Appleseed School and I do hope you'll both chime in. I need all the help I can get. I don't have children (I chose not to have them many years ago and had myself sterilized to ensure my own wishes at age 31) but I adore children and obviously want the best for the ones in my area of the world.
I'm thinking I'll start by offering a free after-school course in discursive meditation for kids, mask-free of course. Would any of you be able to help me design the curriculum?
I'm thinking I'll start by offering a free after-school course in discursive meditation for kids, mask-free of course. Would any of you be able to help me design the curriculum?
Yes, I would love that! Do you do discursive meditation? As I mentioned above, I want to start with a free after school course in discursive meditation. I need help with how many weeks it should be and how classes should be structured.
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!
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!
It's been 20 years since we homeschooled, but at the time Home School Legal Defense Association did not advise private schools, just homeschools.
That makes a ton of sense. I wanted to move to Canada back around 2000 because there was and still is a much more receptive audience for the type of music I do there. Chicago is all about its cover bands, loud bar music, jazz and blues. There is a big folk scene but it never fit the type of introspective gothic ethereal music I write.
I think you are absolutely correct. Canadians got way too used to being upwardly mobile whereas down here it has been dog eat dog for a long time.
Best of luck on your move.
I think you are absolutely correct. Canadians got way too used to being upwardly mobile whereas down here it has been dog eat dog for a long time.
Best of luck on your move.
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.
My goal is to catalog 1000 books by February 2022 and then start with that thousand.
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.
Thank you! The HSLDA looks like a great resource. I am definitely going to have an on-call attorney either way.
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.
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.
Right. I read that Kimberly was starting as a home school co-op with plans to become a private school later. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
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Dear Kimberly,
I just noticed you recorded a fresh orphic hymn to Aphrodite. It's awesome, thanks for this.
Edu
I just noticed you recorded a fresh orphic hymn to Aphrodite. It's awesome, thanks for this.
Edu
I’ve tried it but am not very good at it, sorry.
—Lady Cutekitten
—Lady Cutekitten
I don't know as much about curriculum as homeschoolers likely do, but I'm happy to help think through and review things. The school we were involved in was early childcare (12 weeks through 5 years) and was based on the Reggio Emilia approach: https://www.education.com/magazine/article/Reggio_Emilia/. My kids have also gone to a French immersion/French curriculum public charter school (also a startup and we were there in the first few years of its operation) and regular, urban public schools. Both are centralized, top-down approaches--set by the French government in the first instance and our state government in the second--so I have some sense of what can work well and what can be pretty horrible.
In addition to curriculum, I think it will be VERY important to consider governing structure, who gets a voice, teacher's rights, etc.. JMG has mentioned pitfalls like entryism, and schools seem to bring out the crazy in people...
In addition to curriculum, I think it will be VERY important to consider governing structure, who gets a voice, teacher's rights, etc.. JMG has mentioned pitfalls like entryism, and schools seem to bring out the crazy in people...
I think that's a great point, Mollari. I was born in the late 70s in U.S. flyover country and it seems like I've only ever seen decline around me. It was papered over for a while with internet and shiny tech gadgets, but that was a temporary cover up. In fact, from my perspective the internet really just made it apparent to the hinterlands how much they have been sucked dry over the decades. It enabled everyone to learn how the other half has been living.
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.
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.
You're welcome! Glad you are enjoying it.
The cluelessness of the upper middle class strikes again. With college enrollment down by an order of magnitude, they're not doing much to make the "college experience" seem appealing to young people! You really have to be a die hard Progressian salary class cult member to want to go to college these days.
Well, I've just had to move things up a lot: the government is promising everyone will be eligible for a vaccine by the end of May. Which means that I think I need a place for June. What's really funny, and quite telling, is that as soon as that announcement happened, a lot of apartments were rented very quickly; it looks like an awful lot of people are planning to move out in order to avoid the vaccine issue with their family.
Also, having roommates is no longer an option, because the government is apparently considering allowing people to force anyone they live with to get a vaccine. I haven't been able to confirm this, but it would be in character for them....
Also, having roommates is no longer an option, because the government is apparently considering allowing people to force anyone they live with to get a vaccine. I haven't been able to confirm this, but it would be in character for them....
I'd personally say the administrators at the school boards ought to be fired; but I'm not particularly enthusiastic that'll happen. The other part I find amusing is that they're saying this would be optional, but also now claiming that it would be possible to save money by no longer paying to maintain the schools. I sincerely hope this doesn't happen, since the consequences for the children would be truly horrific....
I'm glad for Quebec, yet again: a federal law here in Canada blocks any effort to force employees, or students, to get any form of vaccination under most circumstances. Any effort to change that will trigger a complete meltdown in Quebec's political and chattering classes, and so for now the government won't touch it. But I figure this means we have a year, two tops, since I don't expect Quebec to remain part of Canada for much longer anyway.
The one that gets me is that many of the colleges which mandate the Covid-19 vaccines will not guarantee that classes will be in person. In other words, they're trying to force people to get these vaccines without even making sure that you'll be able to attend the classes. Frankly, I'll be amazed if higher education survives the next year at this point, since it seems like they are undermining everything that makes people interested in attending.....
Schools are collapsing here.... I don't know that it's such a bad thing. People are starting to home school in droves and their collapse is pushing me to make a school. I'm not the only one. My group's conversation with Senator Bailey was all about forming our own indie schools. The school system failed the children a long time ago. It was failing children back when I was a child, and it was a heck of a lot better back then! At least I learned how to do my own taxes and I knew where Tunisia was!
Right, because what is college for? The MRS degree. You go there to find a mate. I didn't find my husband there but that wasn't for lack of trying.
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