m&kpaquette

My previously unschooled daughter chose to attend grade nine this year. She
just got back her "mid-mid-terms" and has gotten 3 A's and one B. We always
have had access to learning material. I also have 2 foster daughters. One in
grade 2 and one in grade 6. Makes me so thankfully I am home-schooling the
other kids.

So essentially Amanda is good at writing tests!! But she also is doing well
on her assignments & understanding the material. She did fail one test which
required pure memorization of dates & facts. Basically music history. She
said it was stupid & she'd never use it & that most of the class failed too.
She says she wants to be............a TEACHER!!! Yikes!! So she will need
grades in the 90's here in Canada to get into University for Teaching. So if
that is what she really wants to do she is going to need to teach herself (I
am showing her "tricks") how to memorize just so she can get the marks for
the tests to do what she thinks she wants to do as a "grown-up".

It certainly has helped in my DH realizing that the kids don't need an 6.5
hour school day to become "learners"...only took 14 years for him to get
this!!

Kerri, mom to Amanda(14), Emma(12), B(11,foster dd), Maddison(10),J(9,foster
dd), Jonah(7), Saige & Claire( 4, ID twin dds) & baby boy Teagan(Sept. 2003)