Homeschool Chat

[nuzmom]

I hope it's ok to do this... Disneymom3 asked if I let everyone know that she's not able to post here because she was banned. Something resulted from a Community Board discussion. (I don't know why ANYONE would get wrapped up in those posts over there - I keep my distance!!!!)

It is nice that the wdwwow has a dedicated home schooling board. It's MUCH easier to have specific questions answered than to try to search through 1 long thread. I forget what people have asked a few posts past it. I don't know if wdwwow will take off, but I like the idea of having our own board.

 

[bear74]

We just got back from a HS convention. I saw the neatest curriculum using EPCOT and MK. It was around $15-30 can't remember exactly. It is geared for grade school and middle school but a little too easy for my 9th grader. You can check it out at vacationeducationbooks dot com.

thanks

 

[kimluvswdw]

I homeschool my 2 daughters. We just did the end of the year testing and one daughter scored in the 93 percentile and my other daughter scored in the 99 percentile. Just makes my decision to homeschool feel that much more justified.

 

[lori1043]

She invited me over to the other board, but I am truly happy here on the Dis. I have never ventured over to wherever the other horrifying threads may be, and feel justified in saying I will not be looking for it!

Anyway, I hope those that venture over there to WDWWOW have a happy healthy homeschool thread.

No offense in this question, but HOW do you get banned from the Dis? I would think it would have to be a really HEATED and rude dialogue. Maybe I am wrong.

We don't get SAT results for a couple months! It is bugging me how my DD8 did! She came out the first day and told me she got them all right-ummmmm, that can be a BAD sign . OR a really good one .

Lori

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

I homeschool my 2 daughters. We just did the end of the year testing and one daughter scored in the 93 percentile and my other daughter scored in the 99 percentile. Just makes my decision to homeschool feel that much more justified.

Way to go girls! A thumbs up for both of you!!! And you too mom!!

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

Lori1043, I too am curious how you get banned. Also, I have never been to the community board. Is it that scary over there ?

 

[Ellester]

The headline in our paper today was that 56% of the county's 8th graders failed the CRCT test and will not move onto 9th grade unless they pass the retake after a mandatory 2 1/2 week review in June. Statewide, 40% failed. The article went on to say that only 20% of sixth and seventh graders passed the social studies exam statewide. They expect the number to be even lower locally. I just don't see how people think the local school system is working. I feel sorry for the families who have just had their summer vacation plans rewritten by the required summer attendance!

 

[Ellester]

Lori1043, I too am curious how you get banned. Also, I have never been to the community board. Is it that scary over there ?

Oh, there are some very heated "discussions" over there. I try not to venture over there too often. I've never seen Disneymom3 post anything overly inflammatory, but I don't know what the criterion is for banning. It is too bad though, she was a great member of the homeschooling threads for a long time.

 

[karemore]

Glad to see the new thread! I got several great links from the old thread and look forward to following this one.

We're hsing our daughter who just turned 3, and we love WDW. She's been to WDW twice already with plans to go next year too. Just one of the many perks of being a HS family!! We can travel off peak.

 

[Mommy2three]

glad to see this thread. I am now reading over the last homeschool chat thread. i had surgery on my foot on wednesday so i can't be on my foot at all unless its to go to the bathroom, so i have plenty of time on my hands! Let me tell a little about myself. I am 25 will be 26 on the 29th, and have three kids. kyla is 8 years old who has adhd, bipolar, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, OCD, and oppositional defiance disorder (she is at public school), i have a 6 year old son Ivan, who was diagnosed with a mood disorder, and an auditory processing disorder. right now he is in a day treatment counseling program in the morning from 8 until noon and then at public school from 1230 until 251. and then i have a 2 year old daughter named izabella.

I am a stay at home mom, i was in college until i was in an auto accident in february then had to drop my classes so I could take care of myself after the accident. I will be taking my classes online part time starting in july.

I am convinced I want to homeschool my 6 year old son with the auditory problem. He has a difficult time in school, and at home with simple directions, at school and at home we are using picture cards with him to help him with that. He will be going on to first grade next year which i don't think hes ready for first grade, especially at a public school, and he would be missing the first half of the day due to the day treatment.

My hubby says absolutley no way am I homeschooling him. I found a wonderful local homeschool group that has monthly field trips along with other get togethers for the kids for the social aspect of it.

so any other homeschoolers who has a child with auditory proccessing problems? any advice i could give my hubby to reassure him or convince him?

 

[TLHB70]

Hey everyone.
I know that I am not a regular poster here on the family board or the homeschool chat threads (I typically hang out on the theme parks, restaurant, or sometimes community board threads.), however I knew that there were several homeschoolers here. I also homeschool. I have been doing so for 8 years. My oldest DD just finished 7th grade; my youngest DD just finished 4th grade. (We finished our school year this past Friday!!!! ) I love homeschooling, and I am proud to be a homeschool family!
I am posting here today because I just received an email from my homeschool group. I have forwarded it to all of my othere homeschool friends, and I thought I would share it with all of you.

I am copying and pasting the email exactly how it came to me:


Subway contest bars homeschoolers



I am disappointed in this.

http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kids/contest.aspx

Subway has a contest for kids that excludes homeschoolers. At the bottom of
the page you will see this paragraph:

"Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with
children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve
grades PreK-6.
No home schools will be accepted."


Here is the web address for their comment form.

http://www.subway.com/Applications/CustService/frmCustomerService.aspx

I have not read through all of your pages so this may have already been posted. If so, I am sorry. If not, if this is the first time that you have learned about this, please contact Subway. This is wrong! I have contacted them and let them know that since they are excluding my family from their contest then I am excluding them from my restauarant choices. I am disappointed because I do like Subway, but this is just wrong.
Please forward it on to your homeschool groups/friends, too.

 

[HomeschoolMama]

Hey everyone.
I know that I am not a regular poster here on the family board or the homeschool chat threads (I typically hang out on the theme parks, restaurant, or sometimes community board threads.), however I knew that there were several homeschoolers here. I also homeschool. I have been doing so for 8 years. My oldest DD just finished 7th grade; my youngest DD just finished 4th grade. (We finished our school year this past Friday!!!! ) I love homeschooling, and I am proud to be a homeschool family!
I am posting here today because I just received an email from my homeschool group. I have forwarded it to all of my othere homeschool friends, and I thought I would share it with all of you.

I am copying and pasting the email exactly how it came to me:


Subway contest bars homeschoolers



I am disappointed in this.

http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kids/contest.aspx

Subway has a contest for kids that excludes homeschoolers. At the bottom of
the page you will see this paragraph:

"Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with
children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve
grades PreK-6.
No home schools will be accepted."


Here is the web address for their comment form.

http://www.subway.com/Applications/CustService/frmCustomerService.aspx

I have not read through all of your pages so this may have already been posted. If so, I am sorry. If not, if this is the first time that you have learned about this, please contact Subway. This is wrong! I have contacted them and let them know that since they are excluding my family from their contest then I am excluding them from my restauarant choices. I am disappointed because I do like Subway, but this is just wrong.
Please forward it on to your homeschool groups/friends, too.

hmmm... I should have read all the way through, huh? oops!

 

[mykidsintow]

Hey everyone.
I know that I am not a regular poster here on the family board or the homeschool chat threads (I typically hang out on the theme parks, restaurant, or sometimes community board threads.), however I knew that there were several homeschoolers here. I also homeschool. I have been doing so for 8 years. My oldest DD just finished 7th grade; my youngest DD just finished 4th grade. (We finished our school year this past Friday!!!! ) I love homeschooling, and I am proud to be a homeschool family!
I am posting here today because I just received an email from my homeschool group. I have forwarded it to all of my othere homeschool friends, and I thought I would share it with all of you.

I am copying and pasting the email exactly how it came to me:


Subway contest bars homeschoolers



I am disappointed in this.

http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kids/contest.aspx

Subway has a contest for kids that excludes homeschoolers. At the bottom of
the page you will see this paragraph:

"Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with
children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve
grades PreK-6.
No home schools will be accepted."


Here is the web address for their comment form.

http://www.subway.com/Applications/CustService/frmCustomerService.aspx

I have not read through all of your pages so this may have already been posted. If so, I am sorry. If not, if this is the first time that you have learned about this, please contact Subway. This is wrong! I have contacted them and let them know that since they are excluding my family from their contest then I am excluding them from my restauarant choices. I am disappointed because I do like Subway, but this is just wrong.
Please forward it on to your homeschool groups/friends, too.

If you read the whole thing you will see at the end that the reward is playground equipment for the *school*. They want to do gym and playground equipment for a school group, not a family.

Which I think is completely understandable....

 

[sha_lyn]

If you read the whole thing you will see at the end that the reward is playground equipment for the *school*. They want to do gym and playground equipment for a school group, not a family.

So the winning family can donate the equipment to their local home-school group, many of which have more members than most private or parochial schools. Why should a student at a private school with 20-30 students qualify, when a home-schooler who is a member of a HS organization with hundreds of members, not qualify.


BTW....Perhaps subway should have a home schooler write their contests, considering the typo in the prize list.

 

[TLHB70]

If you read the whole thing you will see at the end that the reward is playground equipment for the *school*. They want to do gym and playground equipment for a school group, not a family.

Which I think is completely understandable....

Yes, I am sorry that I did not point that out in my original post.
Our homeschool group has park day once a month. I would be happy to donate the equipment to our local park where we meet once a month. I think that would be an excellent option if they chose to let homeschoolers participate.

 

[dis-happy]

Wow, not very nice of Subway. Anyhoo, in many states a homeschool is considered a Private School (it's that way in my state). I'm not sure that Subway could legally exclude us since we meet the legal definition of a private school; that's all we are legally, a private school, homeschool isn't even a definition, and according to the contest rules it is declared to be open to private schools. It doesn't say "private schools with a minimum of 100 enrolled students". Plus, that wouldn't even work in CA where many homeschoolers operate under a private school umbrella that does enroll hundreds of students.

The more I think about this, the more I think every homeschooler SHOULD enter the contest. I'd like to see what the outcome would be....

 

[dis-happy]

Under the add'l Contest Rules link it says that Scholastic is sponsoring this contest. I'd hate to see the backlash if homeschoolers (or private school educators such as I am, legally!) were to band together against them on this. In our area they go to great lengths to get us to buy books from them.

The more I read about this contest the madder I get. Why shouldn't any private school (including a homeschool) be allowed to win a gift basket or the child be allowed to get a free book if a Subway receipt is also submitted with the essay? More than anything I think they are afraid of "too many homeschoolers" potentially winning all the prizes and it dilutes the value of their publicity opportunities. Considering that the National Spelling Bee, Geography Bee, not to mention numorous local, state and national Math Contests gladly accept homeschoolers to compete, I do not see what their problem is.

 

[TLHB70]

Anyhoo, in many states a homeschool is considered a Private School (it's that way in my state). I'm not sure that Subway could legally exclude us since we meet the legal definition of a private school

I didn't think about that. We are in NC, and it is the same with our family.

 

[TLHB70]

Under the add'l Contest Rules link it says that Scholastic is sponsoring this contest. I'd hate to see the backlash if homeschoolers (or private school educators such as I am, legally!) were to band together against them on this. In our area they go to great lengths to get us to buy books from them.

I didn't even think about contacting Scholastic! Great idea! I will pass the word on to our homeschool group. We do group orders from Scholastic. I think that we should let them know that they have excluded us so we may have to reconsider ordering from them now.

 

[HomeschoolMama]

When I sent this out in my group, this is one of the responses I got.
I know of several people who have already written to scholastic and
subway. Here is Scholastics response:

"We are deeply sorry that the Subway contest has offended you and
thank you for voicing your concern. Our intention was never to make
independent schooled children feel discriminated against or excluded
from this specific promotion. Throughout the course of the year
Scholastic runs a number of contests and sweepstakes that are open
to all teachers and students. The eligibility of this contest in
particular was solely put in place to award a large group of
children with the grand prize of $5,000 worth of athletic equipment.
We do however understand how home-schooled children could benefit
from this type of prizing and will make sure eligibility is open to
everyone in future promotions...."