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 RF> That sounds quite interesting.  I will have to try it.  He is in 3rd
 RF> grade. I think that he is getting confused on account of his ADHD. 
 RF> I'm not quite sure.
 RF> Regina
 JE> Regina,
 JE> Found this on the Internet, think it might help you.
 JE> MaKay Swanson  wrote in article
 JE> ...
 > In GA we are to work the equivilent of 41/2 hrs daily.
 JE> I have an easy answer to that requirement. I tell our state officials
 JE> (Iowa) that our school year is 365.25 days and our educational time is
 JE> 24 hours per day. The point is that home education can't be measured by
 JE> the same metrics applied to institutional schools, be they public or
 JE> private. To require home schoolers to "teach" for a certain amount of
 JE> time each day is to demonstrate beyond all doubt that the
 JE> administration is ignorant of this particular educational paradigm.
 JE> Professional educators and education bureaucrats, interestingly enough,
 JE> tend to know less about education than most parents.
 Thats a very good and valid point.  My children stay up later.  We generally
 watch the 11:00 news together as it has better things to talk about than
 the earlier news.  This allows the children to see what is going on around
 them, good and bad.  Sometimes we spot things on TV and sometimes the
 Library takes longer.  Our Cat had kittens so things have been hectic.
 She had problems so she had to go to the vet and have her labor induced
 because she stopped after having one.  Before she had them we read a book
 about Cats and gave them an idea about it.  Now they are a basket full of
 questions.  No telling what time of day gobs of questions will come and
 how long they will last.  I do write alot of it down and I never received
 any interference from the school system yet.  My older son ran into his
 teacher from last year.  She questioned him about it.  She asked if he
 had a teacher or a computer.  He related I have both.  Even though I
 don't have a degree, he considered me the teacher (which is a fact and
 I believe all parents are teachers).  I was a little surprised he left
 it at that though.  Our our library day I am getting books on education
 and different ways of teaching.  My Jeremy absolutely was surprised when
 he found out I read a book (about 300 pages) in one day.  He is begining
 to read by himself now.  He doesn't like to read out loud so I don't
 push it.  He's slow at reading.  Oh, I getting off the subject matter.
 I guess I worry about the time, because the law here in Mich is so
 general now.  I want to protect myself the best I can.
 Regina
... "Transporter chief Edwards, beam the landing party to the bridge"
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