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My daughter started a new book today, Tuck Everlasting. I really like this book (more so than the movie.) I hope she enjoys it as well. I think she will. It raises the question of “What would it be like to live forever? What would it really be like?” Now I just need to get her activity packet together. The way she reads, she’ll be done in a day or two!

I got this in an email today. It is written by a group of homeschooled students.

IKE

Tall waves warning doom
Ikes unexpected mercy
chaotic echoes….

- written by the Clear Lake Literary Club

School starts tomorrow. I am not really ready. I mean, I have lesson plans ready for my daughter. But I am not really ready.

I don’t really understand why so many parents go around saying they can’t wait for school to start, their kids are driving them crazy! I mean, ok, my kids drive me crazy too. But I cannot stand the thought of sending my son back into that artificial world of public school. I don’t like the demands the peers and sports put on him. I don’t like the values that are taught. I don’t like the required reading. And yet, I am letting him choose to go back. No, in that sense, I am not ready for school to start.

As for my daughter, it will be just me and her this year. I have her lessons ready. As usual, I think there will be some fun things for her to learn (us to learn together.) I am actually reusing the Texas history unit we did three years ago. She agreed to it, but now is balking at it! She will also start off with an Agatha Christie unit study with the book And Then There Were None. She is also starting a formal science curriculum-which she says she is not looking forward to!

Things will be different this year, I guess that is usual for us! But no, I am not ready for school to start…

When I read something that is written for the public, it bothers me to see typos and misspelled words. I understand that we all make mistakes and that errors happen very easily. What I don’t understand is the lack for an editing process. If a work is being presented for others, wouldn’t it be best to gain their trust in you as the author/provider of service?

Here is an example I encountered just today. I found a website which buys and resells homeschool textbooks and curriculum. I like this and think it is a very good service, one which is needed and used within the homeschool community. But on the Home page of the site, I notice a “typo”. Then I went to another page. Another “typo”. By now I am thinking it may not just be a “typo”. When I checked it out on my word processor, I actually found another misspelled word, one not so easily caught because most of us mispronounce it! So now I am wondering if it wasn’t one or more of the students who are actually putting together this website. That is great. I think it’s good experience for them and probably lets them deal with an area of expertise that mom and dad may not have or have time for. All good. But, shouldn’t the site be edited before posting? At least run it through a spell checker!

So, should I email this company to alert them of their editing problems? I have done this for friends whom I think would want to have things correct on their websites. But I have never dealt with this company at all before. I know that I would be more likely to use their service if they had proper spelling on their business website! Or am I just being picky?