{"id":10915,"date":"2013-06-17T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2014-07-07T05:28:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:28:27","slug":"real-people-vs-heks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10915","title":{"rendered":"Real people vs. HEKs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I haven’t had two homeschooling-related posts in a single day in years, but I can’t pass up this idiotic quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Administrators should consider allowing, or even encouraging, partial homeschooling when a family expresses strong wishes to have their child receive \u2018more’ during the school day,” says Deborah Ruf, an educational consultant for families of gifted children. “If the school isn’t set up for full-time gifted immersion programming, allowing the family to set up other opportunities for a portion of the school day can be an ideal solution.”<\/p>\n

Partial homeschooling can provide the best of both worlds, Ruf says. If they’re fully removed from school, “bright students will miss out on knowing what \u2018real people’ are like. We want our future policymakers to be grounded in real life without having to sacrifice their own high abilities and talents.”<\/strong> [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. HEKs don’t meet “real people” in “real life.” The only place “real people” show up are in the public schools. <\/p>\n

We’re getting ready to start the home stretch for our home edumacatin’. Chelsea will graduate a year from now and Jonathan will be starting “high school” this autumn. We’ve been at this for, I think, 12 years. When we’re finally done 4 years from now, it will feel very strange.<\/p>\n

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“I used Grammarly to grammar check<\/a> this post, because I apparently write like a baboon.” I scored a 56 out of 100 on this post. Of course, I didn’t actually make any of their suggested changes. What kind of crazy software thinks “edumacatin'” needs correcting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I haven’t had two homeschooling-related posts in a single day in years, but I can’t pass up this idiotic quote: “Administrators should consider allowing, or even encouraging, partial homeschooling when a family expresses strong wishes to have their child receive \u2018more’ during the school day,” says Deborah Ruf, an educational consultant for families of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10915"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11138,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions\/11138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}