Homeschooling

I tried to wipe the slippery tears from my face and tried to hold the rest back, but no matter my efforts they defied me and kept coming. I tasted the saltiness of the tears as they reached my mouth, I tried wiping my tears again, but more just replace them. I never thought I would cry at my sister’s graduation, and less for the reason I was actually crying for. Just minutes before I had felt like my heart had sunk into the pits of my stomach. I was not a brat who was crying because she is at…

little one. The transition from daycare to preschool can often be just as challenging, for the simple fact that children can get attached to daycare workers in addition to parents. For all those parents worried about being away from a young child, homeschooling is always an option. In this day and age “parents are made to feel they need experts to help their child learn,”(Quara) but this is just not the case. Jobs, patience, cost, and location are some parts that need to be thought through;…

Desegregation is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the “abolishment of racial segregation in schools and other institutions”. The fight to desegregate America was a long drawn out batter, and all efforts towards desegregation were consistently meet with opposition. Whites at the time had several motives for not wanting to desegregate. Then, once desegregation was to be legally enforced it was met with resistance from Whites, as well as reluctance from some African Americans. To white…

When learning how to edit your photos through classes and videos, there’s always something new to learn. Taking a photography class was a great experience for me. Through my homeschooling co-op I had a class with about ten other students. Each week we would shoot outside if the weather was nice, and then take our photographs into the classroom and learn creative editing techniques. Although classrooms are a great way to learn, YouTube…

clinic, and clean water (ARC 2015). In Somalia, ARC helped start a fishery through provision of boat repair tools and teaching sustainable fishing and financial management (ARC). ARC provides education through funding or alternative methods like homeschooling, village schools, skills training and mentoring, a part of the Questscope program in Syria and Jordan (ARC 2015). Through education, counseling, medical and legal services and enabling women leadership, ARC seeks to respond and prevent…

When He Get Older One freezing April morning in Sacramento, California, the boy with dark hair and yellow skin came into a new world. He was a first child of one Asian American family and his name William. Everyone in his family excited to have him as a new member. As William was too little, he could communicate with his parents only by crying. At that time, he cried whenever he was hungry or upset about something. William not only was challenging to communicate with others but also had a…

K-12 Education The United States places the entire education system on a high pedestal. Education, K-12, receives billions of dollars from the federal and state budgets year after year. Despite all the money put into this system the United States is only ranked 14th worldwide with South Korea, Japan, and Singapore ranking in the top 3. The United States is more than capable of raising it’s ranking, but the question arises as to how this can be done. Further, the question becomes as to whether…

Patrick is an active kid, he plays outside, loves talking, but has a hard time staying still in class. Patrick is just a normal boy, if a little bit on the energetic side, but his teacher Ms. Smith does not want to stimulate Patrick the way he should be. She claims that he has severe ADHD and gets him prescribed on buckets of drugs which turns him into a vegetable. This exists in many elementary schools around the nation, and is a horrible truth we cannot escape. Far too many children are being…

glad. I remember eating lucky charms and reciting it to my mom and dad with a big smile on my face. This experience and memory is important to me because this was one of the many times that my parents helped me grow closer to the lord. Due to homeschooling, I was able to memorize many bible verses that I still have in my heart today. This experience reminds me that the Word is living and active. Many of the Creeds and Bible verses that I learned in 7th grade have helped me through struggles or…

In the continent of Europe, I chose the country of Germany to research. Germany’s largest city, which also happens to be the largest city is Berlin. The country is also the most populous state in Europe, with 81 million inhabitants and is the second most popular migration destination in the world. In Germany, most of the people are very engaging when it comes to the topic of sports. In Germany, group activities, team sports, and competitions take place regularly. Playing with neighbors and…