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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…