Okay, one week in and it’s time to post. Last Thursday we packed up the Prius, C. said her goodbyes and we headed north. Those last few days were really sweet, capped by a lowkey sendoff with close friends and family at our local pool. As we pulled out of the driveway, M. “piped out” [...]
Archive for September, 2010
New Beginnings
Posted in Gifted, Home Life, tagged boarding school, high school, private school, residential high school on September 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Sloppy, Sloppy, Sloppy
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
That’s what last week’s article in the Gazette — “New private school in Darnestown geared toward gifted youngsters” — was. Simply sloppy. No doubt it started off as a PR pitch for the new Feynman School (the “Special to…”) but then, in the interest of “balance” decided it needed to tell the MCPS side of [...]
Debate Comes to MoCo Middle School
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The gods must be listening. No sooner do I blog about the debate memoir Weisenheimer and the challenges that verbally gifted kids face, than an announcement goes out that a debating opportunity for the younger crowd is coming to Montgomery County. Well, MoCo is a big place, so I should qualify that and note that [...]
Homeschooling: 8th Grade Edition
Posted in education, Homeschooling on September 4, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Well Monday was the first day of school her in Montgomery County, and feeling a bit subversive, I posted this YouTube clip to my Facebook wall. A perceptive high school friend who I haven’t seen since, well, high school wrote, “Hmm, is this post due to past or current frustrations with education? Or perhaps just [...]
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