julietOscarEcho

@julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads a book for school⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup

  Homeschooling: A comprehensive survey of the research, Robert Kunzman, Milton Gaither Other Education-the journal of educational alternatives 2 (1), 4-59, 2013

  "A final consistent finding in the literature on academic achievement is that parental background matters very much in homeschooler achievement. Belfield (2005) found greater variance in SAT scores by family background among homeschoolers than among institutionally-schooled students. Boulter’s (1999) longitudinal sample of 110 students whose parents averaged only 13 years of education found a consistent pattern of gradual decline in achievement scores the longer a child remained homeschooled, a result she attributed to the relatively low levels of parent education in her sample. Medlin’s (1994) study of 36 homeschoolers found a significant relationship between mother’s educational level and child’s achievement score. Kunzman’s (2009a) qualitative study of several Christian homeschooling families found dramatic differences in instructional quality correlated with parent educational background. "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts asking questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My kid screams “un-let go” at me while balancing perfectly well. She understands, she does not accept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts asking questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re called rollers, and they’re pretty easy to ride on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon needs to pay the rent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For almost the first year I lived there I paid rent in person by cheque to a management company office. It was a midtown manhatten apartment in a nice ish building less than a decade ago. They also forgot to cash the bankers draft I had written up for my deposit (five fucking figures that they just didn’t notice for years). Real Estate has a surprising number of absolute clowns still for some reason. I guess because it’s been easy money for asset owners so they chaff wasn’t being squeezed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a test subject⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. One of the dangerous things about chronical pain that I think might be underappreciated is that it blinds you to signals that in a healthy person would cause them to seek medical help. When doctors ask now I always caveat that I’m a poor witness of my own wellness because there have been times when I felt like I was doing fine but in fact needed surgery. I don’t know how doctors (or occupational health, or social workers, or carers) do it, there’s basically no reliable information in talking to an ill person but that’s like 90% of what you have to go on.