Category: Cindy’s Commentary
A Carrot-Free Homeschool
How much money does the state spend on a single child in public school? For the upcoming 2012-2013 school year, it’s $6,474 per student. Imagine! Having sixty four hundred dollars in the bank to homeschool one child! O, the field trips you could take! O, the materials you could buy! But, there’s no such thing [...]
Ireland: It’s Craic!
A longtime friend, also named Cindy, and a graduated homeschool mom like me, has had one heckuva of a year. In August, she sold her Greeley, Colorado home. A good thing, too; she’s been trying to sell that puppy for 3 years. The bad part is, it sold for 55k less than it was supposed [...]
Homeschooling WordPress … ‘n Me Too
Well, I’ve finally decided to move my Rocky Mountain Education Connection site over to WordPress. Mostly because, after 6 years, I was tired of hard coding. HTML this, a=href that, font-align something else. Gah. Enough already. WP has a CMS (content management system) which is supposed to do all this pseudo programming for me. I [...]