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Thanks Brenda,
Even though I'm not a homeschooler (I guess I'm a supplementer) I'm a huge Story of the World fan and have them all, plus activity books. (We're in the middle of the third one.) I can't recommend them enough.
I still go back and re-read sections of The Well-Trained Mind every few months, especially now that my kids are moving into the aptly named "Pert" stage.
-- SusanS - 14 Sep 2005
SusanS?,
You're what we call an "afterschooler", and there are a fair number of them at WTM. I think afterschooling is actually more difficult than homeschooling, in many ways. Hats off to you and the others trying to make it work.
--Brenda
-- KtmGuest - 15 Sep 2005
Now afterschooling has made it to listmania. So it's official (She's got a web site, too!)
How long has afterschooling been used on the Well-Trained Mind forum? Does anyone know?
Hi. I started afterschooling 30 minutes ago.
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Forever. The term is used in the 1st edition of WTM, which was published in '99. On the message boards, there's a forum dedicated to afterschoolers.
And I agree that afterschooling is probably harder in a lot of ways than homeschooling.
It seems that I have heard the term used in other places besides the WTM site for at least three or four years. I know of afterschoolers that get together and do Saxon or Singapore math with their kids because they go to schools that use "fuzzy" math.
Afterschooling -- what a great word to describe the supplementation of schooled students!!
Disclosure: Sometimes the extra work is "beforeschooling" as we do 15 minutes (of the daily one hour of extra Reading and Math) before the school bus comes ;)
Oh, yeah
I've done my share of beforeschooling!
I saw a beforeschooling post at WTM, but didn't read.
Oooh! I'm famous! LOL.
--BrendaM (aka SillyOldMom)
My god, we've been chatting since 2005??
SusanS
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