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Chit-Chat: In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.

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I don't think people should be home-schooled. One of my better friends has been home-schooled since the beginning of 6th grade and now he lacks a lot of social skills that you pick up through being with people. Living your life alone for most of it shouldn't be something that you do. The biggest thing that high school does is teach you how to interact with people to prepare you for college. And I just think you don't get the same communications experience as if you were at school
 
-Yoshi- said:
I don't think people should be home-schooled. One of my better friends has been home-schooled since the beginning of 6th grade and now he lacks a lot of social skills that you pick up through being with people. Living your life alone for most of it shouldn't be something that you do. The biggest thing that high school does is teach you how to interact with people to prepare you for college. And I just think you don't get the same communications experience as if you were at school
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I suppose he was homeschooled the wrong way. :/ Read my posts on it for more information :3
 
The Void said:
I suppose he was homeschooled the wrong way. :/ Read my posts on it for more information :3
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How do they get into social programs and stuff?
Well, by the way, he really only did it to focus on baseball. Which is working out for him. He's either going to FSU on a full-ride scholarship, or he is projected the 16th pick of the MLB draft. So, I guess it did work for him.
 
-Yoshi- said:
How do they get into social programs and stuff?
Well, by the way, he really only did it to focus on baseball. Which is working out for him. He's either going to FSU on a full-ride scholarship, or he is projected the 16th pick of the MLB draft. So, I guess it did work for him.
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An average homeschool organization usually has at least 100 students. The organization would set a regular meeting time and place for all those students to gather and socialize. Normally it's twice a week. There are other programs homeschool organizations use but this one is the most common.

Oh and I posted this on some other thread before, but here's a bunch of cool people who actually did homeschool (for reference):

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The Void said:
An average homeschool organization usually has at least 100 students. The organization would set a regular meeting time and place for all those students to gather and socialize. Normally it's twice a week. There are other programs homeschool organizations use but this one is the most common.
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I don't know how he did it, but I don't think it offered anything like that. And if it did, if it wasn't mandatory, I'm sure he didn't go. He's too committed to baseball to do anything else.
 
I was homeschooled for pretty much all of middle school. In reality I just did whatever the heck I wanted 24/7 and did really well on my end-of-grade tests, and that was that. Pretty much a neverending summer. :P

My mother would like to have been able to homeschool me here in Colorado with an accredited program (since it's required for high school), but in this state you have to have a degree to homeschool whereas in Carolina you didn't. I think public school is good for my social skills anyway, not to mention it's too easy. :3


Also, I'd like to mention that with the help of Geoff I rediscovered an account I created here on November 21, 2009, which was the same day I registered on Bulbagarden. Soon I'm gonna get supportership to it and then I'm hoping to use it… :D
 
Genesis said:
Or maybe you could swap names with it?
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Well, when I registered that account it had a really stupid username, and last night I had the name changed to Layne Staley. I think if I wanted to do anything with the two together it'd be to merge them, but Geoff said they generally don't do that because of how messy it is. (I had four alts merged and all I noticed was that I'm friends with myself, so maybe he knows something I don't know.)
 
My ex was homeschooled most of his high school time. After his sophomore year he had an epileptic attack that forced him out of school. He told me (a while before we got together) that homeschooling helped him lots and it was way better than traditional classroom learning. With thanks to that, he earned a 3.3 GPA upon graduating. The downside to that, he graduated a year later than his intended grad year.
 
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*sigh* …I love it when I can just wake up on a Saturday and let everything unwind, listening to a bunch of feel-good music from Bill Withers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Dobie Gray… and I ain't got a damn worry in the world to mess with me.


Ah, I can finally relax…
 
Meanwhile, I got up and immediately had to work...bleh. At least now boyfriend and I are getting drunk and watching Parks and Rec. I still have a bit more work to do before I can really relax today but then I'll get back to Gunpla painting!
 
Today has been a rather fun-filled day for me so far. Went to Sarge's Grill, which is a new place on the 85/87 strip that opened up a few months ago. One of the sergeants that opened the place told us that him and a bunch of other Army NCOs got together and wanted to fuse the ideas and styles of all the restaurants they've seen around the world in their time of service and put it together into one resteraunt.

The place was rather well-decorated and equipped with a full bar. It had a lot of military decorations and more than a little memorabilia referencing the 4th Infantry Division here at Fort Carson. The service was absolutely excellent and the food… it's hard to say anything. Their burgers were absolutely huge, and tasted like a grill smells, the bacon was perfectly thick and the pickle slices were perfect. After eating it I knew full well I wasn't going to be able to do anything with the fries, not to mention Melodie absolutely loved their fish and snuck a glass of lemonade with limes and two vodka shots while my sister and mother were in the bathroom. It was absolutely great, all of it. :)
 
I got home from work for about 6 and slept until 11.

Safe to say I probably won't be sleeping much tonight. Ugh.
 
The past few holidays I've almost always been going to bed at 2 AM something ish and I got up at either 7 AM because I kinda don't know why or at 11 AM because I slept for too long :p
 
The weekends are always tough for me, now that summer's around the corner. I work 7am-3pm at one job, and then do another job 5pm-1am. So working 15+ hours for 3 days straight...takes a real toll health wise, mate /:
 
Terabyte said:
Two full-time jobs?! How could you even manage that? o_o
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I work at Dunkin Donuts and a movie drive in! You know, one of these thaaangs:
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I work around 40 hours at DD, usually doing shifts from 7am/8am-3pm four or five days a week. The drive in is mostly a night gig, and I only work the weekends until Memorial Day when it opens up seven days a week (which at that point I'll probably pick up two more nights.) So essentially I can work anywhere between 60-70 hours in a given week.

What can I say, I'm addicted to money and I need some means to supply my horrible addicting physical CD spending habits :3
 
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