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Rose, Director of NASA...I LOVE IT

2009-10-14T09:45:42.694-07:00

Rose, Director of NASA...I LOVE IT

Great writing. Thank you for sharing it with us. ...

2009-10-13T09:05:54.157-07:00

Great writing. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Rose Vasquez
Director of the Nova Academy of Sciences and Arts (NASA)

BTW this post was your Editor's comment for the ne...

2009-10-12T11:06:18.528-07:00

BTW this post was your Editor's comment for the next issue... eh?

Deb. We are GG Learning Academy. when people get...

2009-10-12T11:05:37.839-07:00

Deb. We are GG Learning Academy. when people get around to asking us what GG stands for, I get a kick out of answering "We are the Grippos (not a disease, I can assure you, but my husband's last name), so GG stand for "Get a Grip". " We say that when we are trying to learn something difficult to grasp (which for me will be most of the tech stuff that my kids just love and think nothing of) and we are becoming anxious. Did I say "we"? I meant to say "I"... sigh. LOL

Oh, LOVE "Sycamore School". Heh heh. We're Ath...

2009-10-11T21:10:27.223-07:00

Oh, LOVE "Sycamore School". Heh heh.

We're Athena Academy, because Athena is the Greek Goddess of wisdom. Plain and simple.

First of all, the latest issue arrived yesterday. ...

2009-10-11T21:08:04.637-07:00

First of all, the latest issue arrived yesterday. Because receiving mail at an APO can take forever... like, Pony Express-forever, I did a little dance of joy when SHM #8 got here. You'll see my renewal by the end of the week.

Paperwork. Blech. Delaware is an easy one. We submit paperwork only twice a year. First is in October when we declare that we are homeschooling. Then later (um, July or August, I believe), we submit an attendance report. That's it.

When I moved to Korea, people here said I didn't have to do ANYTHING. But I thought it was better to continue under Delaware state laws to cover my own butt. Better when we return to the states to say there's a record in Delaware, than to say there's nothing "official" about our homeschooling, you know?

It isn't like I have to make a huge effort to comply with Delaware state laws, so I don't mind continuing with the paperwork as long as I'm a resident of that state.

California unnerves me when it comes to homeschooling.

I like your list of courses. So much more entertaining than the usual names! ;)

Oh god, never before have I been so grateful to li...

2009-10-11T20:07:36.646-07:00

Oh god, never before have I been so grateful to live in Texas. Yes, even over the heat that makes your skin blister and pop within seconds of walking onto the driveway, the no-rain-for-months "bit of a dry spell" (according to the old folks) we've had, or the beautiful, graceful flight of our state bird, the football. Yes, this is what makes me grateful to be a Texan - the absolute lack of any sort of paperwork to be allowed to homeschool. Maybe it's something about big sweaty dudes routinely carrying around guns in the back of their pick-ups that keeps the government out of our hair.

BTW, our school is currently CASA, so named by my then 10yo DD. By her account it stands for "Clark Academy of Science and Art." By mine it stands for "Clark Academy of Sloth and Apathy."