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OriginalGriff wrote: lack of interaction or introduction to different ideas and personalities.
Of the negative reports I have heard over the years, this is one of the common ones.
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In South Carolina (where we live), if you are home schooling, you are required to be part of an accountability group. So, you get as much out of it as you put into it.
One of the young ladies at our church was home schooled from 3rd grade on; she is now in college and taking a semester abroad next winter... to Africa!
We are also part of other groups, such as a music academy, where my daughter is learning to play violin. They have beginner and advanced strings and band. There is a group that organizes field trips; last year, they toured an ice cream shop that makes it on site, a local produce farm, and a historical site about 2 hours away.
Just as we continually learn, so do they.
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As with any form of teaching, the most important thing is the teacher ...
Not criticising your sister (well, ok, I sorta am really) but I reckon home-schooling your own child is bloody hard - harder than teaching a class of kids - partly because discipline is so much harder.
Almost every home-schooled kid I have interacted with is a ferral - though to be fair, there's the question of causality & correlation...
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Not criticising your sister (well, ok, I sorta am really)
Please! Help yourself.
I told her she was an idiot for home schooling them, but she never listens to me.
Trouble is, she's a god-botherer, and her kids are wimps. So in case they might meet ideas she disagrees with, or get picked on for medieval attitudes to knowledge she "schooled" them herself. As a result, they know what she knows of the modern curriculum (sod all) and pass exams only in irrelevant subjects. 
One of them is a wonderful musician, apparently - but the only time I have heard him play was at Mum's funeral, where he missed more notes than he hit...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Trouble is, she's a god-botherer
'nuff said.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I couldn't remember 'homophone'.... it has been far to many years since I was in school and what I used to call items is no longer used... thank you for the term.
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Witchsmeller: Now, Mrs. Firkettle, can you see that man standing over there?
Firkettle: Which?
Witchsmeller: That's him...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well yeah, but who's on first?
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I made a middle school teacher mad one day when I told him I could speak a sentence out loud that he could not write on the chalkboard. He took me up on the challenge, and I spoke a word and he wrote it, until....
(Background: in English we have to, too, and two, all pronounced the same, each with a different meaning.)
The sentence is: There are three [twos, or toos, or tos] in the English language.
He stopped after writing three on the board, and then got mad saying I hadn't picked a definitive subject.
I said thank you. That was my point. 
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Wait until they add while and for and if clauses. Now that will put a grin on your face!
"It's hard to beat someone who never quits".
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Indeed it will... the example of used with my wife was: Which would you like for breakfast, cereal or pancakes?
My wife's response was, "That's easy in your world!"
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"It's hard to beat someone who never quits".
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Today, we have to add a 'which' clause..
Today oui have two add a witch claws?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Hi All,
I know of the no programming questions in the lounge, but what is the difference between MFC & MVC?
I am thinking I need to update my skills as they only apply to Win forms, what and how to update them is the question I would like answered... SORRY!
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Wow ... long way to go!
MFC = Microsoft Foundation Classes, an API that made Windows Programming easier than plain Win32 code when I was little and helped me earn my authority rep points here. That was a long time ago, not sure if MFC still exists.
MVC = Model View Controller. That is one of many way to organize your SW architecture, but a good one.
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Oookay! so does that mean what I know about Windows programming is still of use? Can you recomend article on MVC, I understood it was a completely different way to program.... 
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You misread my post : There is absolutely no relations between MVC and MFC, but for the fact that it relies to programming.
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Oh, sorry I though that MVC had replaced Win Forms, sorry looks like I will be googling!
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Not even close. MVC is a buzzword compliant architecture for web development. WPF/Metro/Win8/Win10/WindowsStore/Modern/WteTheyCallItTomorrow style apps are the intended WinForm replacement and use something called the MVVM (model, view, view model) architecture.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It seems as though I might not be far off the mark already!
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Rage wrote: There is absolutely no relations between MVC and MFC
Wat M and C doh!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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