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 Info, opinions about IDEA-NM (currently 7,093 views) |
| carissanichols |
| Posted on: September 3rd, 2006, 5:45pm |
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Quoted from Gretchen, posted September 2nd, 2006, 3:50pm at hereThe state's requirement for kindergarten is: "at least five years of age prior to 12:01am on September 1 of the school year". So, Carissa, if Johnny is not eligible this year, I'll be your "guinea pig" for the IDEA program and tell you all about our experience with it. We have enrolled. |
Cool, ladies. Thank you so, so very much for your thorough answers and your kind-heartedness with these questions of mine - you answered everything!  I really look forward to hearing about your experiences and I am so very curious about this development. I wish you all lots of satisfaction with these choices - it's going to be so interesting to be part of the "launch year" and I hope it brings added quality experiences and educational opportunities to our local homeschoolers! Press on! 
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| Genevieve |
| Posted on: September 8th, 2006, 9:10pm |
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Quoted from Admin, posted August 25th, 2006, 9:44pm at here
Actually, I believe that there are many homeschoolers out there who do want that. While I don't go that route myself, my original post wasn't meant as an invitation to criticize those who would value what IDEA has to offer.
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Hmm. I think you misunderstood me. I have yet to meet a homeschooling family that uses desks and chalkboard AND uses public-school-type textbooks AND spends the same amount of time in classes that public schoolers do AND has a parent stand at the front of the class and lecture like a teacher does. No matter what the homeschooling philosopy is, there are very, very real differences between educating a class and educating a small group of kids of various ages. I think that there seems to be, from the website, an inability to conceptualize any sort of atmosphere other than an institutional one. The "licenced teacher" comment is a big tip-off. Personally, I am in no way an unschooler. We use Singapore Math and will use SOME texts for later grades.
The later information--the posts on this board about how the money can be used, I mean--is much more promising than the website appears to be. Perhaps they are better grasping what homeschooling--even mostly school-at-home homeschooling--is. |
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