Heidi Crane

Just remembered this one. On our trip to Montana, my normally very verbose
and stridently opinionated, anti-homeschooling mother was quiet about the
subject, ALMOST completely. Except for dinner the first night, when one of
my kids mentioned the summer program for school age kids, where they can go
down to the school yard and get a free lunch. And my mil said "well, if you
went to school, you could have free school lunch every day!"

LOL ooooh, I'm changing MY mind. ;-)

blessings, Heidi

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In a message dated 6/13/05 3:07:13 PM, bunsofaluminum60@... writes:

<< one of
my kids mentioned the summer program for school age kids, where they can go
down to the school yard and get a free lunch. And my mil said "well, if you
went to school, you could have free school lunch every day!" >>

OH yeah.
Holly loves free lunch. Starting tomorrow she can go again. (Woohoo!! I'll
see her in three hours!)

Last summer a little girl her age who was determined to prove homeschooling
wrong and evil finally said "How do you meet anyone if you don't go to school?"

WHAT a bad move. What a STUPID question. Holly said, "Well, I met you at
the park." The little girl did not understand a word Holly was saying. Looked
at her not just blankly, but blankly with the slow-mo stun-out. Holly turned
to a mom sitting on the blanket with them (a mom who DID get it) and stuck
out her hand and said, "Hi. I'm Holly," and shook the woman's hand. Still the
schoolkid did NOT get the point.

Keith's oldest brother is a master of doofy comments. The kids enjoy sharing
notes after he leaves. One, though, several years back was to Marty:
"How do you like your teacher?"

Marty: I don't have a teacher.
Gerry: Sure you do.
Marty just looked at him, didn't bother to respond.
Gerry: Your mom's your teacher."
Marty: No she isn't.

Gerry was stuck.
They can stick him every time. <bwg>

Sandra

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This is not a dumb response to homeschooling, but when I heard it I thought
it was strange.

I told my mom we were going to homeschool and her respose was, "That's
practical." For my mom that was probably the greatest compliment.

At the time, of course, I thought many, many things about our plans, but it
certainly didn't seem PRACTICAL! But I appreciated my mom's support. I
really miss her.

Kathryn


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