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The All-Purpose Getting-To-Know-BBers Questions Thread
22 June 2015
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Looking at the “Currently Online” list and noticing @HongKongLady – good to see you. Sorry about the loss of your friend. How are you coping?

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Zig said
Looking at the “Currently Online” list and noticing @HongKongLady – good to see you. Sorry about the loss of your friend. How are you coping?

Thank you @Zig I’m ok. I miss you all

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22 June 2015
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We’re here to help you recover, @HongKongLady. I hope we can put some smiles back on your face.

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Ahhh Girl said
We’re here to help you recover, @HongKongLady. I hope we can put some smiles back on your face.

Thank you soo much @Ahhh Girl, I’m sure I have a smile on my face again,, and thank you for @trcanberra for his support, even though he made me cry as well

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Joe said

@Beatlebug said

Perfectly all right, @Ron Nasty! 

So basically it’s this: I’m pretty much self-taught in most subjects (history, music *ahem*, grammar, science) and my mother does math with me (a-hard-days-night-ringo-14).  The classes I talk about are fairly informal courses run by other homeschoolers in people’s living rooms. 

This be called unschooling, and ask not if I learn anything. I do, thank you very much. a-hard-days-night-john-7

That’s very interesting. I have a few follow-up Qs, if I may.

Is the community aspect (classes, socialising) seen as integral, vital, preferable, nice to have or incidental? ie do home schoolers typically build in some kind of external structure to broaden their experiences and insights?

Would you educate your children in the same or a similar way? Any misgivings?

Why did your parents choose this for you? What’s their background?

How does unschooling work if a child is at risk of failure? Not everyone has a tendency towards autodidacticism. Is it sink or swim?

And can you tell us a bit about self-discipline? Left to my own devices I’d have just studied music and humanities (which is basically what I did after leaving school), and I wouldn’t have had a particularly rounded education. So how do you achieve that outside a more formal structure?

Ahh, good questions. I would like to know these things too, it sounds pretty interesting and unusual. Very intriguing. How does it work with tests and exams? 

23 June 2015
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The press conference will now convene… 

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@Joe said
That’s very interesting. I have a few follow-up Qs, if I may.

Is the community aspect (classes, socialising) seen as integral, vital, preferable, nice to have or incidental? ie do home schoolers typically build in some kind of external structure to broaden their experiences and insights?

Different folk have different ways of doing things, but most homeschoolers I know do a lot of things outside the home. 

Would you educate your children in the same or a similar way? Any misgivings?

1, Yes and 2, no. 

Why did your parents choose this for you? What’s their background?

They had rather horrid times in school and wanted for me not to suffer the same. 

How does unschooling work if a child is at risk of failure? Not everyone has a tendency towards autodidacticism. Is it sink or swim?

Unschooling is not for everyone. Talk to your doctor to see if unschooling is right for you. 

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While we’re asking…

Are your siblings “unschoooled” too? Does NC have tests you are required to take every so often to check your progress on subjects? Have you given any thought about going to college? Will you go to a formal school sometime during your teen years? Have you given any thought yet about jobs or careers you want to have in the future? Would you like to be a stay-at-home mom with several children to raise?

1. Yes. 2. Yes, we have to take the CAT (California Achievement Test) at the end of the year. 3. Some. I try to avoid thinking about growing up though 😉 4. Probably not. 5. See answer to question 3. 6. Not really/maybe/I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. 

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More questions for silly girl! Why do you art? Why do you Beatles? Where is the rice pudding? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

1. Because the world is round, and it turns me on. 2. Because the music is fab, and it blows my mind. 3. In the Beatles Bible House kitchen. 4. I haven’t had a Tootsie Pop in years so I don’t know. 

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25 June 2015
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Have you try sit on air one hour? 

25 June 2015
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No.

I'm Necko.  I'm like Ringo except I wear necklaces.

I'm also ewe2 on weekends.

Most likely to post things that make you go hmm... 2015, 2016, 2017. 

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Necko said
No

Good because you don’t deserve it @Necko there’s a one man who really needs to do it 

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HongKongLady said

Necko said
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Good because you don’t deserve it @Necko there’s a one man who really needs to do it 

Hmm, I might go for the saucepan, it will be over with quicker.

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I’m at a complete loss……Saucepans and sitting on air…..Must be my age…..

 

…….And another thing, I’m at a complete loss.

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HongKongLady said
Have you try sit on air one hour? 

Nope cause I am always successful at sitting on air since there is a little bit of air between me and what I’m sitting at.

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Wigwam said
I’m at a complete loss……Saucepans and sitting on air…..Must be my age…..

 

…….And another thing, I’m at a complete loss.

If it’s age-related, it must be my age too. I’m also at a complete loss. 

 

Can’t we just all sit on cornflakes in English gardens?… 

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Nope cause I don’t feel like spending money to get to England just to sit in a garden.

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Annadog40 said
Nope cause I don’t feel like spending money to get to England just to sit in a garden.

You get cornflakes as well…… Tempted??

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Annadog40 said
Nope cause I don’t feel like spending money to get to England just to sit in a garden.

Then you can give your plane ticket money to me. I’d love to go to England just to sit in a garden… 

especially if it was the garden at Friar Park… a-hard-days-night-george-10

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Wigwam said

Annadog40 said
Nope cause I don’t feel like spending money to get to England just to sit in a garden.

You get cornflakes as well…… Tempted??

Don’t like them.

 

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Annadog40 said
Nope cause I don’t feel like spending money to get to England just to sit in a garden.

Then you can give your plane ticket money to me. I’d love to go to England just to sit in a garden… 

especially if it was the garden at Friar Park… a-hard-days-night-george-10

The problem is that I think your not over 18 so I would have to contact your adult units before you get the money! a-hard-days-night-john-5

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Annadog40 said  

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Annadog40 said
Nope cause I don’t feel like spending money to get to England just to sit in a garden.

Then you can give your plane ticket money to me. I’d love to go to England just to sit in a garden… 

especially if it was the garden at Friar Park… a-hard-days-night-george-10

The problem is that I think your not over 18 so I would have to contact your adult units before you get the money! a-hard-days-night-john-5

True… in this world. But in the BB world, I am every age and no age. a-hard-days-night-john-1 

If You Never Give Me Your Money , just give me some of your funny paper. 

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Maybe I’ll get by Customs With A Little Help From My Friends there. After all, Beatlefans are Here There And Everywhere

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why does the sun go on shinning? 

Why of this eyes made me cry?

Why we need to breath? 

Why the sun goes down? 

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why does the sun go on shinning? 

Because of nuclear fusion

Why of this eyes made me cry?

To remove an irritant in the eye

Why we need to breath?

Because your cells need Oxygen.

Why the sun goes down? 

It doesn’t.

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