{"id":5067,"date":"2005-06-07T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2005-06-07T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T12:36:43","slug":"homeschooling-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5067","title":{"rendered":"HOMESCHOOLING 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the lead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayettevillenc.com\/story.php?Template=features&#038;Story=7043327\">article<\/a> in today&#8217;s <i>Fayetteville Observer<\/i> Features section.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this section is only available in the online version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>C. Remember that minds are usually more receptive to formal academic instruction<\/p>\n<p>in the morning hours after an adequate amount of sleep. II. Maintain a current daily log, journal or lesson plan book throughout the entire school year.<\/p>\n<p>A. It should contain:<\/p>\n<p>1. Time devoted to the formal study of each subject each day;<\/p>\n<p>2. Page numbers, chapters or units of the textbooks (or very brief descriptions of concepts) covered during various time periods each day.<\/p>\n<p>B. It should be retained at your school until the student has enrolled in a conventional school or has graduated.<\/p>\n<p>III. Be certain that nationally standardized testing:<\/p>\n<p>A. Is ordered by each February 1. Click here for a list of testing companies;<\/p>\n<p>B. Is administered each year during the same week of your choice between March 1 and April 15;<\/p>\n<p>C. Is not administered or scored by relatives, guardians, or anyone living in the same household as the student.<\/p>\n<p>1. An educational institution\/organization is preferred.<\/p>\n<p>2. Machine-scoring is most ideal. (Always allow at least eight weeks to receive test results if the test is machine scored.)<\/p>\n<p>D. Includes the subject areas of social studies and science, whenever applicable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are <i>recommendations<\/i> from the State educrats.  They are <i>not<\/i> requirements.  It&#8217;d have been nice if someone at the FO would have bothered to point that out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the lead article in today&#8217;s Fayetteville Observer Features section. Interestingly, this section is only available in the online version: C. Remember that minds are usually more receptive to formal academic instruction in the morning hours after an adequate amount of sleep. II. Maintain a current daily log, journal or lesson plan book throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067"}],"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=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}