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Category Archives: sweet nothings
5 Stupid Reasons Not To Home School (and Do Public School Instead)
In defensive discussions justifying my parental rights and educational choices for my children, I often find myself repeating my lists of reasons. I have 10 solid reasons why we home-school, which I was going to post today, but then I had an internal struggle.
What if people (as they sometimes do) started offering some responses which tied into some incomprehensibly stupid reasons to opt out of home-schooling and send my kids to school? I mean, they’d see this post and think I was spring boarding off of their incomprehensibly stupid comments. I am therefore ethically required to post this first!
My second struggle is that this post can only exist if people understand my number one reason for home-schooling: I can’t afford private school. I really can’t. I’m trying to save for retirement and the college education of three kids; it’s impossible to pay private school tuition right now.
With conscience assuaged, and the number one reason listed to my reader (that’s you), all struggles are rested. I can unapologetically offer five undeniably and incomprehensibly stupid reasons to opt-out of home school and send kids to school:
Your Body: A Poll
MCF’S Another Poll of Randomosity
MCF’s Questions and answers here and my answers after the jump.
Rey’s Wisdom: Mathematical Constant
I’m not a wise man; I’m fairly an idiot in a lot of things. But I’ve learned that wisdom is generated by experience and I have 35 years of that last bit which allows me to learn Something. That being the case, I’ll share it with you after the jump.
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Susan Boyle and Perceptions
By now, just about everyone in the E-World has seen the video of Susan Boyle performing on Britain Has Talent but I thought it was necessary to put in an observation that someone close to me, who wishes to remain anonymous, noted.
Laws of E-Debate
Many years ago, so the story goes, Newton was bopped on the head by a falling apple and immediately came up with several Laws of Physics. Years later, Einstein was bopped in the head with Time and came up with the Law of Relativity. On the Internet forum I participate in, I have been verbally bopped enough times to unearth the Laws Of E-Debate which are just as foundational to any Laws of Thermodynamics and probably just as provable. Maybe on your jaunts through message forums and online debates you will find these Laws coming to the fore.
Now what you may find is that these Laws might have some proper applicability in some scenarios—yet you may also realize that sometimes, they’re just embarrassing refusals to engage the opposing position properly.
MCF’s Poll of Randomosity
Figured I’d do MCF”s Poll of Randomosity because it gave me a chuckle.
Rey’s Insane Bailout Package
Instead of pouring billions into the auto industry and the overarching bank and the trading companies the government should implement the following ridiculous suggestions:
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Mouse Arrow Moves Screen (Apple Mac)
For some mysterious reason your screen looks bigger and when you move your mouse the pointer/cursor moves the entire screen instead of going to a specific area. It does also move to specific areas but if it’s past the boundary of the screen it moves the screen.
This is part of Apple’s Universal Access panel and is enabled (and disabled) by pressing Option+Apple+8.
So no, it’s not a bug.