{"id":6840,"date":"2006-08-13T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2006-08-13T07:22:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T11:22:30","slug":"school-at-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6840","title":{"rendered":"SCHOOL AT HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/allheadlines\/141589\">This article<\/a> implies that we&#8217;re all school-at-homers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both families agree it&#8217;s worth buying proper school furniture, because it&#8217;s usually more durable than pieces designed for home use. Shannon&#8217;s husband is the information technologies director for the Vail School District, so she orders hers direct from school catalogs.<br \/>\nAnd any avid home-schooler will tell you to keep the space interesting. Shannon has painted hers bright turquoise, royal blue and emerald green, with &#8220;lots of things to look at,&#8221; including a floor rug depicting a map of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, home-schooler Susan Elsberry goes for huge maps as visual stimulation for her son Colin, 11. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But although Susan acknowledges that most home-schoolers are &#8220;desperately seeking organization,&#8221; she has a few words for those who take tidiness too seriously: &#8220;The educators in my family are thrilled when they drop in and see work and projects and books and magazines on the floor. Good classrooms aren&#8217;t always tidy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My kids do their work wherever they feel like it.  For the younger ones, that generally means the couch or lying on the floor.  We don&#8217;t have school desks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article implies that we&#8217;re all school-at-homers. Both families agree it&#8217;s worth buying proper school furniture, because it&#8217;s usually more durable than pieces designed for home use. Shannon&#8217;s husband is the information technologies director for the Vail School District, so she orders hers direct from school catalogs. And any avid home-schooler will tell you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}