#homeschooling for pre k

[playingwithapparel]

Homeschooling Tips & Ideas for Homeschooling in Nova Scotia

As a mom who recently took the plunge into homeschooling my 4-year-old, I’m excited to share my journey and a few homeschooling tips that I’m learning as we go. So far, homeschooling in Nova Scotia has been filled with both challenging and rewarding moments. Transitioning from the idea of a structured preschool environment to a more flexible home setting was daunting at first. From adapting our…

[mydearlybeloathed]

my de english teacher continues to be amazed by my memory but the thing is my memory is terrible i just have this thing where i can remember every single story we ever read in high school.

a few weeks into this senior year i accidentally got into a little fender bender on the interstate. the next day i flew into english class and told her about it because she was my teacher back in tenth grade, saying, "remember the story about the man who gets into a fender bender and the car he hit was a company car and the company car owner called the police? that happened to me"

(the cops weren't called but i did lightly hit the back of someone's company car and nothing was scratched on either car so we went our separate ways)

and she was blown away that i remembered.

a few weeks down the road our textbook referenced the essay "Don't Blame the Eater" by David Zinczenko. I excitedly accidentally stopped the whole lesson to ask if this was the essay she put an excerpt from on our tenth grade exam (i knew it was the same excerpt). i continue to amaze her with my selective memory of english class reading material.

the adhd is a superpower and with great power comes the responsibility to remind my peers of that one story we read in freshmen year.

movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….

girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.

[presswoodterryryan]

🐰🎓 Alice’s Pre-K Graduation Day: A Fluffernutter-Sized Celebration! 🎓🐰

Blog post by Alice (and her bunny bestie, Mr. Fluffernutter!) Something funny happened inside my tummy today—it felt like butterflies wearing tutus were doing the cha-cha! So while Daddy Ryan made me breakfast, I opened my tablet and painted a picture of The Royal Fluffernutter Forest. It had mushroom trampolines, a jellyfish parade, and a rainbow volcano that only sings lullabies. I was so…

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[dreamdolldeveloper]

back to basics

mostly free resources to help you learn the basics that i've gathered for myself so far that i think are cool

everyday

gcfglobal - about the internet, online safety and for kids, life skills like applying for jobs, career planning, resume writing, online learning, today's skills like 3d printing, photoshop, smartphone basics, microsoft office apps, and mac friendly. they have core skills like reading, math, science, language learning - some topics are sparse so hopefully they keep adding things on. great site to start off on learning.

handsonbanking - learn about finances. after highschool, credit, banking, investing, money management, debt, goal setting, loans, cars, small businesses, military, insurance, retirement, etc.

bbc - learning for all ages. primary to adult. arts, history, science, math, reading, english, french, all the way to functional and vocational skills for adults as well, great site!

education.ket - workplace essential skills

general education

mathsgenie - GCSE revision, grade 1-9, math stages 1-14, provides more resources! completely free.

khan academy - pre-k to college, life skills, test prep (sats, mcat, etc), get ready courses, AP, partner courses like NASA, etc. so much more!

aleks - k-12 + higher ed learning program. adapts to each student.

biology4kids - learn biology

cosmos4kids - learn astronomy basics

chem4kids - learn chemistry

physics4kids - learn physics

numbernut - math basics (arithmetic, fractions and decimals, roots and exponents, prealgebra)

education.ket - primary to adult. includes highschool equivalent test prep, the core skills. they have a free resource library and they sell workbooks. they have one on work-life essentials (high demand career sectors + soft skills)

youtube channels

the organic chemistry tutor

khanacademy

crashcourse

tabletclassmath

2minmaths

kevinmathscience

professor leonard

greenemath

mathantics

3blue1brown

literacy

readworks - reading comprehension, build background knowledge, grow your vocabulary, strengthen strategic reading

chompchomp - grammar knowledge

tutors

not the "free resource" part of this post but sometimes we forget we can be tutored especially as an adult. just because we don't have formal education does not mean we can't get 1:1 teaching! please do you research and don't be afraid to try out different tutors. and remember you're not dumb just because someone's teaching style doesn't match up with your learning style.

cambridge coaching - medical school, mba and business, law school, graduate, college academics, high school and college process, middle school and high school admissions

preply - language tutoring. affordable!

revolutionprep - math, science, english, history, computer science (ap, html/css, java, python c++), foreign languages (german, korean, french, italian, spanish, japanese, chinese, esl)

varsity tutors - k-5 subjects, ap, test prep, languages, math, science & engineering, coding, homeschool, college essays, essay editing, etc

chegg - biology, business, engineering/computer science, math, homework help, textbook support, rent and buying books

learn to be - k-12 subjects

for languages

lingq - app. created by steve kaufmann, a polygot (fluent in 20+ languages) an amazing language learning platform that compiles content in 20+ languages like podcasts, graded readers, story times, vlogs, radio, books, the feature to put in your own books! immersion, comprehensible input.

flexiclasses - option to study abroad, resources to learn, mandarin, cantonese, japanese, vietnamese, korean, italian, russian, taiwanese hokkien, shanghainese.

fluentin3months - bootcamp, consultation available, languages: spanish, french, korean, german, chinese, japanese, russian, italian.

fluenz - spanish immersion both online and in person - intensive.

pimsleur - not tutoring** online learning using apps and their method. up to 50 languages, free trial available.

incase time has passed since i last posted this, check on the original post (not the reblogs) to see if i updated link or added new resources. i think i want to add laguage resources at some point too but until then, happy learning!!

[homestuckreplay]

hey i really liked your post speculating on the kids' school lives. i havent seen a lot of people talk about what the kids lives were like pre-sburb and you mentioned having more that you hadn't written so i wanna know what you got :D

hello thank you so much! this is something I definitely want to put more thought into, I think it gives a fuller understanding of them as characters to have ideas about their 'baseline normal' pre-sburb that they're now departing from. so here's a bunch of thoughts for now, and maybe I'll do some more later :D

John – I think that Dad Egbert had a happy childhood with Nanna, and because he was so happy, he’s basically tried to replicate those steps with John, and then is confused when John doesn’t respond as well as he used to. He’s definitely tried teaching John to cook and bake, going for walks/throwing a frisbee around together near pipe lake, enrolling him in all kinds of extracurriculars, etc, but John has always found it hard to get motivation to do those things – piano lessons was the one thing he actually stuck with, probably because it was a solo activity, and he never wanted to perform or be in an orchestra. When he was young it was rare for him to get invited over to other kids’ houses for playdates, and even more rare for him to ask someone over – the number of people who have ever been inside John’s room is extremely small imo. In nursery/pre-k when the teachers were trying to teach sharing skills and collaborative play, John was over in the corner making up scenes with various action figures, dolls and stuffed animals and he did NOT want any help.

But it’s the 2000s and nobody is talking about therapy or mental health, and he’s a nice kid, he’s not causing any problems he’s just a little quiet and spacey, so nobody ever thinks to assess him for anything and he kind of flies under a lot of people’s radar. And then as he gets older, later in elementary school and going into middle school, he starts to feel a little different, lonelier, seeing for the first time the things he’s missing out on and growing too big for this imaginary world he’s constructed for himself, so then he starts trying to learn to mask and fit in, play games with the other kids at recess, but by then it’s kind of too late because he’s missed out on so much. And he always kind of gets it wrong, like if the other kids all saw idk Night at the Museum when it came out, John would be all “yeah I saw that too!” but then he goes way harder on it than everyone else does and ends up looking weird, or he tries to play basketball and he’s actually okay at running and jumping but he doesn’t know The Rules so he fouls. And so he retreats into himself again, this time a little sadder and a little more restless, because he kind of knows he wants something else, but doesn’t quite know how to get it, or why it’s not working – because he has internet friends by this point, and they’re great but feel so distant, and there’s a real part of him who wants someone other than Dad to just sit next to on the couch and watch a movie with.

Rose – Mom is a scientist and clearly super intelligent, and she taught Rose to read, write and do basic math at a younger age then usual and Rose took to it quickly, so she went into kindergarten already knowing all that stuff and she showed up Ready to Win. Like it’s a challenge, like she could do all of the kindergarten work within the first week and then she wouldn’t have to go back for the rest of the year. And she was really annoyed when it didn’t work like that, because it wasn’t fair, like why should she have to sit at a table and wait while other kids are trying to make their first letter shapes? So she feels talked down to by the academics and she isn’t interested in other areas, like art and music and sport and group activities, because she doesn’t see them as important when Clearly there is a library here. Rose absolutely begs her mom to homeschool her as a young kid and Mom eventually gives in and they try it for the third grade, but by winter they hate each other and it’s what sets their relationship down its current path of misunderstanding and is what made them so distant from each other even while living together. After that Rose had a series of private tutors and was offputting and weird enough to get all of them to quit, some accidentally and some on purpose, so then for fourth grade she just goes back to school, and she starts applying herself to things like the violin and softball even though she doesn’t actually care about them because she’s just straight up bored.

Rose was a super early adopter of video games, I think her mom got her a computer of her own when she was very young to help with learning and because Rose was VERY intense and demanding as a small child, always asking complicated questions. So she really gravitated towards video games as something that has a skill curve in a way TV and movies don’t – I’m actually not sure she’s ever seen a movie, though she has played some shitty 2000s video game adaptations of movies. She started out playing educational games like Reader Rabbit and Cluefinders and then moved to playing anything she could get her hands on from various mail order catalogs, same with books, she would leave her order forms in stamped addressed envelopes on the front doormat and Mom would take them to the post office when she went out, pre-massive internet marketplaces. And after their relationship broke down Mom stopped taking her out of the house except to school, so Rose would pull stunts like setting a tent up in the backyard and sleeping there and making a campfire for a couple days, just for enrichment. Overall I think Rose has been like 10-20% understimulated for her entire childhood and has constantly, always been looking for things to pull her up to that baseline and has never really found anything, until right now.

Dave – I think Bro might send Dave to school as one of many hazing mechanisms, in addition to however many sword fights and rooftop battles, nobody is better at bullying and social control than kids. I also think Dave spends a lot more time outside of his house than the other kids, Bro probably kicks him out if he wants to have people over / set up some saw traps / do some weird puppet stuff so Dave ends up just kinda wandering the definitely not super walkable city streets as a pretty young kid, and that’s where he gets his ability to monologue like crazy because he just has this stream of thoughts in his head constantly as he observes the world. He doesn’t have food in the house but he has some local places like a mcdonalds and a diner where he can go in and the staff are like “hey it’s kinda weird this kid has a credit card. oh well!” and they’ll let him sit with a big plate of chicken nuggets and an apple juice because they figure his home life isn’t great, and occasionally one of the staff will go up to him and ask if everything is okay and where his parents are, and he just shrugs it off and says it’s fine and then doesn’t go back there for a while. Observing other people in the city is definitely where he gets his first inspiration for comics and blog posts, since he does so much more looking at the world than participating in it.

Dave doesn’t always bother showing up for school, he kinda decides based on the day if he’s actually going to go there because obviously he thinks everyone wants to see him and, like, what are those other kids gonna do if they don’t have someone cool to guide them around? But at the same time, he struggles with routine, and even if he genuinely tries to stick to going in, a couple days a week he just finds himself getting on the wrong bus and ending up in a random part of town, and he’s never had safety drilled into him so he’ll do things like pick up roadkill off the street to preserve it in his specimen jars, or climb up the outside of a building because a cop saw him not being in school, or steal from a store just to see if he can get away with it. It’s mostly for the story – he knows he can get attention from Bro or from people at school if he can share some wild stories, but in truth nobody actually believes what he says, and even though it’s at least mostly true he just gets seen as a kid with overactive imagination. That’s a big factor in his adoption of irony, because if he’s gonna be misconstrued and not taken seriously, he wants to control the intent behind that and its effects on people as much as possible.

[insufferablemod]

I'm also super torn on whether or not Dave was homeschooled, but what if Bro just kind of... Did neither? Or maybe Dave went to like kindergarten/Pre-K or like first grade and then Bro pulled him? Just very minimal schooling. It's so tough!

i use 2 be fully on the home school side but then these three posts made me reconsider... n now im unsure which way i lean......

[recalcitrantlycaffeinated]

Theater Highlights 2025: local theater done by children ONLY

My kid is finally old enough to go to musicals with me (sort of, I may be pushing it) so we have gotten to go to several high school (or lower) productions this year. Here are my favorite choices that were made:

THE MUSIC MAN

This was a 1st-12th grade play put on by a very, very small school and anyone else they could scrounge up from the local/homeschool community

Harold Hill was being played by the headmaster's son, who strongly insinuated in his cast bio that he was being forced to do this

This kid literally said IN HIS BIO that he thanked his father for his stern discipline it has been months and I am still losing my mind about it, how did he have the guts to do this and why did nobody stop him??

Partway through "Trouble," said Harold Hill briefly flubbed his lines. Up until that moment, his portrayal had been very faithful to the movie, but in that second, a switch flipped. He shrugged and said super deadpan, "ya got trouble" and from that moment on, Harold Hill no longer schmoozed anybody. He was played as a character fully breaking the fourth wall, repeatedly gesturing while staring at the audience as if to say, "look at these idiots!! how can they believe this?" while saying every line about the band as though he was the worst liar in the world. I have never seen Harold Hill played like this and I don't think I ever will again

MARY POPPINS

This was also K-12th grade with a small cast.

There were several times when somebody couldn't find a prop and was delayed in going on stage. Every single time, this happened when Mr. Banks was on stage all by himself. At some point he decided he was just going to treat it like Groundhog Day and start re-saying all his lines from the first scene in which this happened

One of the servants was supposed to drop a prop cake at one point, and he full-on launched it into the sky and then fell onto the stage and lay there for the rest of the scene like he was dead

The main adult characters were played by high schoolers - the children and the characters with the most lines were played by middle schoolers. Except for the evil former nanny of Mr. Banks, who was played by a very small elementary schooler, who was convincingly terrifying and an absolute star

SEUSSICAL

The best piece of high school theater I have ever seen, nominated for so many of the local Tony Awards, and it DESERVED IT

The bird girls were played by a group of girls decked out in sequins and feathers, and the Wickersham brothers were played by...another group of girls. There was one boy, who was very good at dancing, but the rest of the troupe were all swaggering around imitating him and wearing fake facial hair and leather and vests and being ridiculous. It was masterful

The grinch was played by a kid who had clearly been obsessed with the grinch from his youth (there was picture evidence in the pre-overture slideshow) and was living his dream

General Genghis Khan Schmitz told Jojo's father and mother that Jojo had died in the butter war, and then...while dramatically sobbing...jumped into Jojo's fathers arms? This was clearly last-show-of-the-run bullshit because every single person on the stage broke. Then they came out for their bows wearing half of each other's costumes. I don't know if they are IRL dating or just wanted to imply that their characters were (which makes NO SENSE) but it was hilarious and again an interpretation I will NEVER see again

Featured dance solo by the black bottomed eagle, Vlad Vladikoff, in a tutu

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

Much like in Seussical, half of Joseph's brothers were played by women in beards. Unlike in Seussical, this was less of a directing choice played for humor and more of a we're-a-Catholic-school-and-we-don't-have-enough-boys situation. They didn't have the guts to also go for the clear "we are girls playing boys and mocking the boys" angle, so they made all of the girls use deep voices and sing bass...

...until One More Angel in Heaven. Traditionally, one of the brothers sings a solo, accompanied by his wife singing operatically. In this version, one of the brothers suddenly turned into a soprano with no explanation. It was a whole vibe

Reuben and Benjamin were played by an older brother and a younger brother

Those Canaan Days was sung differently than I have ever heard before. I don't know if it was fully in the chromatic scale or what, I just know it had way more intervals than I'm used to hearing and it was super cool

Potiphar's wife seduced Joseph via a nonconsensual tap dancing duet

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for refusing to file for disability in order to pay bills?

I quit my job right when COVID started surging in 2020 because my boss refused to mask and I'm immunocompromised; I also didn't wanna bring that home to my partners (I'll call them Fox and Rabbit), one of whom is also immunocompromised, or our then-toddler kid either. (Plus, my boss wasn't paying me consistently on-time or the full amounts I was owed, but that's another can of worms)

However, I wasn't able to find anything work-from-home (I have auditory processing issues that make phone jobs impossible, plus we didn't have internet so I was just hotspotting off my phone to get online), and because of lockdown, safety concerns, and lack of a vehicle, I couldn't really get an in-person job either, so I did as much as I could taking care of household budgeting, conflict resolution, and looking after our 3-4yo kid along with Fox (who did most of the actual housework, as I wasn't able to be outside my room much because I was severely allergic to the pets there at the time).

Rabbit (kid's bio-parent) became work-from-home after a brief stint on unemployment due to their employer fucking around, staying over with their coworker/other partner (I'll call Rose) for the internet, and our other roommate contributed to rent until he moved out, so we were able to stay afloat and safely isolated for a while at least, and I started teaching our kid to read and write as my main share of the household contribution, which everyone at least claimed to be fine with.

Fast forward a bit, and both me and Rabbit got extra people in the household mix; a partner who I'd been involved with online for some time (Chomps) moved in with us, and Rabbit married Rose and moved in with her officially, with the kid staying on non-workdays with them and otherwise being looked after mostly by Fox and I. Eventually, with leases on both our places running out but with all of us outspokenly committed to working together, we all moved into Rose's parents' house (while they were overseas on vacation; they wanted caretakers there to look after Rose's younger sibling, who is disabled). Rose's parents--who are also polyam and very well-off--offered to bankroll a new home for all of us so we didn't have rent to pay for a while and could just catch up on things. Chomps even secured a decent-paying job. Things were going very well!

Then, a significant wrinkle came when Chomps needed to quit due to COVID concerns (anti-vaxxers in a high-risk environment, no vaccines available for small kids yet so we were mostly worried about the kid as we'd all been vaxxed at that point otherwise). At the time, everyone agreed that was a good idea! So, everyone braced for financial belt-tightening, and Chomps quit.

At this point, I was barely eating one meal a day out of guilt for my inability to contribute much, but I was also homeschooling our then-pre-k-into-kindergarten-age kid, and helping cook food and handle chores. Due to both Rabbit and Rose working from home and complaining of connection issues whenever anyone else used internet, me and Chomps could barely job-hunt (our phones didn't really get signal out there either), and without the ability to drive or a consistently-available vehicle, we worried constantly about providing for the household. Still, Rose and Rabbit reassured us that it was fine and getting handled.

Until one day it apparently wasn't, and Rose started getting onto me specifically (having been jobless for a couple years at this point, only getting two interviews despite putting in literally hundreds of applications) about filing for disability. Her opinion was that I could "just be on it until [I] got a job". That is not how disability works, and I told her as much, and refused to even start that process instead of continuing to look for work that I could feasibly do (which, frankly, was already taking as much time and effort as a full-time job, just with no financial benefit).

Granted, I could probably qualify for disability benefits, since I have physical and mental issues that make my range of possible employment pretty limited (though, as I'd been able to put in hundreds of applications to things I was sure I could do, it's far from impossible for me to work). However, the type of disabilities I would most easily and likely qualify with are the kind that would also very probably have my autonomy removed (this has been confirmed by two doctors and a therapist independently of one another). Plus, I'd be unable to marry Fox (as we'd agreed to do years and years ago) or get a job again without risking the loss of any benefits I could manage to secure, and also making it incredibly hard to recover those benefits if/when I further deteriorated down the line due to age, injury, or other factors and actually couldn't physically work.

So, while continuing my (unexpectedly unsuccessful) hunt for employment beyond a once-monthly gig that paid ~$75 (which is how I bought my own essential toiletries and groceries), I homeschooled the kid (which was a success, to the point that they later rolled into 1st grade with reading, writing, and math proficiency well above their peers!!), did most of the house troubleshooting and repair, and used as few resources as possible to minimize my impact on household finances, to the point that I averaged eating only one meal each day for years. Still, AITA for not just biting the bullet and giving up on the job hunt to prioritize securing disability payments?

(It's been about two years since that point and our current situation is stable despite partial dissolution of the polycule, with Fox and Chomps both working and paying the entirety of my portion of "rent" on the place Rose's parents bought her, while I continue to job-hunt with help from the state's vocational rehab dept. Fox and Chomps reassure me every time that they can see I'm doing my best and they're happy to take care of me as needed; I still feel fucked up about not being able to contribute financially and take care of them and everyone else in the same way, and wonder all the time if I made/am making the right call by refusing to pursue disability benefits unless I absolutely physically cannot work.)

What are these acronyms?

[snapdragonsimming]

The happiest of birthdays to my eldest boys, Zeke and Sam! The past few months have been chaotic in the best way between Zeke's fifth, Sammy's third, and brand-new portraits for everyone.

Zeke will be joining his sisters at the homeschool co-op come fall. He's still our loud and rambunctious little guy, always getting into a scuffle. We've had to emphasize "JOY" with him the most of all our children--Jesus First, Others Second, Yourself Last--but he's still young so I think it goes over his head a lot of the time, ha ha! His sweet face is hard to say no to, I'll admit, and as our first son Colin certainly doesn't hesitate to invest in him, and all that has made for a very self-assured little man!

Sammy won't start pre-K for another year but he's such a smart little boy already! He reminds me a lot of how Zeke was a few years ago: quiet, solemn and introspective as opposed to active and "all boy." I can't say I'm not worried about his future (What will our church family think if they see we're raising up sons to be like daughters?!) but I know we're all made differently, and a little softness in a boy can't hurt; besides, he might even grow into his rough-and-tumble side like Zeke did!

[itsstarseason]

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╰┈➤ ❝ SEYEON’S BACKGROUND !

✰ DISCLAIMER

Quoted paragraphs indicate that Seyeon has talked about the topic in front of cameras before; therefore, the information is known to the public.

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╰┈➤ ❝ 1997–2007: EARLY LIFE AND AUDITION !

Choi Se-yeon was born on May 1, 1997, as an only child.

Seyeon comes from a wealthy family. She was born in Seocho-gu, one of the richest districts in Seoul, South Korea. Her father, Choi Song-ho, is a former governor of the Bank of Korea, and her mother, Kim Ji-yeon, is a retired model.

In 1999, Seyeon's family moved to New York City. Her parents often traveled between New York and Seoul, leaving Seyeon behind. She was homeschooled and raised by a babysitter, with little to no interaction with her parents. Despite their absence, her parents were extremely controlling—they imposed harsh restrictions on both Seyeon and her babysitter.

❝I spent most of my childhood in NYC, but I hated that place. I hated being homeschooled and staying at home. I was begging my babysitter to go to a normal school every day, but my parents never let me.❞

At the beginning of 2007, Seyeon's parents returned to New York from Seoul, bringing Seyeon's cousin, Kang Kyungna, with them. Kyungna lived with Seyeon and her parents for a couple of months. Later that same year, in the summer, Kyungna took Seyeon to Seoul.

In August, Seyeon was approached by an SM employee while shopping with Kyungna. The employee asked her if she wanted to be famous. Although they walked away from the employee, she kept getting offers from SM almost every week for the next month. After refusing over and over again, Kyungna eventually agreed to send Seyeon to an audition.

❝I never had a dream of becoming an idol, but I was approached by different staff on the street so much that I went there just so they'd leave me alone.❞

Seyeon auditioned for SM Entertainment in October 2007. She sang and danced to "Tell Me" by Wonder Girls, as it was the only song she knew the choreography for. She was accepted immediately and became a trainee at the age of 10.

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╰┈➤ ❝ 2007–2015: TRAINEE LIFE AND SM ROOKIES !

Seyeon continued her homeschooled education until 2009. After completing her elementary education, she attended Sinsa Middle School.

❝I was a bad student in middle school. I adapted quickly, but it was really difficult to catch up with studies and get used to the new systems. I also didn't like studying.❞

In 2010, Seyeon moved into a trainee dorm. Kyungna went to New York shortly after, leaving Seyeon alone in Seoul.

Seyeon graduated from middle school in 2012 and attended the School of Performing Arts Seoul (SOPA), where she majored in Broadcasting Arts.

On December 3, 2013, Seyeon was introduced as a member of SM Rookies, a pre-debut team of trainees under SM Entertainment. This marked the first time Seyeon was officially revealed to the public. She quickly gained popularity for her visuals, but interest in her exploded after SM Entertainment released her practice and performance videos. Many immediately noticed her skills and talent, and she soon became one of the most popular SM trainees.

In 2014, SM Entertainment released a practice video of Seyeon performing BoA's "Girls On Top." The video quickly gained widespread attention, and Seyeon was praised for both her visuals and her skills. It led people to believe that Seyeon was SM's next soloist, and she was given the title "the next BoA." The practice video is now considered legendary among K-pop fans, with many claiming it marks the beginning of Seyeon's fame.

On November 16, 2014, Seyeon became the MC of SBS Inkigayo alongside Hwang Kwanghee and EXO's Suho and Baekhyun.

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╰┈➤ ❝ 2016–2017: DEBUTS AND ROOKIE YEARS !

Seyeon's last Inkigayo broadcast as the MC was on April 3, 2016.

The following day, April 4, Seyeon was revealed as a member of SM Entertainment's new group NCT. The teaser received mixed reactions, as she was the only female among the otherwise male members, quickly becoming one of the most searched topics on portal sites. On April 9, she officially debuted as a member of NCT and its first sub-unit, NCT U, with the digital single "The 7th Sense."

On July 1, Seyeon was confirmed to debut in NCT's second sub-unit, NCT 127. The teasers again received mixed reactions, and Seyeon's name returned as one of the most searched topics on portal sites. She officially debuted as a member of NCT 127 on July 10 with the first album, "NCT #127".

In August, SM Entertainment announced the debut of NCT's third sub-unit, NCT DREAM. Seyeon debuted with the group on August 25 with the single "Chewing Gum." However, Seyeon's debut sparked controversy once again, this time due to her age. Although NCT DREAM was marketed as a teenaged unit of NCT, Seyeon was already an adult at the time of their debut. Netizens accused SM Entertainment of forcing Seyeon into NCT, claiming she should have debuted as a soloist or in Red Velvet, NCT's senior girl group. Because of this, even some of Seyeon’s own fans wanted her out of the group.

In 2016, Seyeon was the #1 most searched rookie idol in South Korea.

Despite the backlash, SM Entertainment ignored the controversy, and Seyeon continued to participate in NCT’s activities. The debate over her place in the group persisted throughout NCT’s rookie years. While Seyeon was often blamed for hindering the group’s growth and drawing negative attention to the group and its other members, she was also praised for her visuals, skills, and charisma. Over time, her popularity among the general public grew slowly but steadily.

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╰┈➤ ❝ 2018–PRESENT: CAREER !

In 2018, Seyeon participated in NCT's first full-group project, "NCT 2018 EMPATHY". After the release of one of the title tracks, "Whistle", performed by Seyeon and the new female members, she went viral—marking her first breakthrough in international K-pop fan spaces. This project significantly changed the perception of Seyeon. For the first time in her career, she began receiving more love than hate and was seen as a backbone member of the group, rather than as SM's "failed experiment".

In August 2018, SM Entertainment announced Seyeon's graduation from NCT DREAM, alongside team member Mark, after the group's comeback in September. The news was met with massive backlash, and some of Seyeon's fans blamed another team member, Sona, who would join the group with the comeback. They accused Sona of trying to replace Seyeon, which sparked fanwars, with many people attempting to overanalyze the girls' interactions on camera.

Seyeon officially graduated from NCT DREAM on December 31, 2018.

In 2018, Seyeon became one of the most popular idols of the year and maintained her popularity throughout 2019. With the release of NCT 127's "Kick It" and the NCT 2020 albums, Seyeon went viral multiple times, further boosting her popularity and making her one of the most recognizable idols in the industry.

On April 14, 2020, SM Entertainment announced that Seyeon and Mark would be returning to NCT DREAM. She officially rejoined the group on May 10, 2021, with NCT DREAM's first full album, "Hot Sauce".

On December 27, 2021, SM Entertainment announced the debut of the female project group Girls On Top, along with its first unit, GOT the beat, in which Seyeon would participate. She officially debuted as a member of GOT the beat on January 3, 2022, with the group's first digital single, "Step Back".

Since 2020, Seyeon has continued to be the most popular member of NCT and one of the most beloved idols in the industry. She is known as an "idol of idols," the nation's MC, and one of South Korea's top "it-girls".

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[bambiraptorx]

Okay so since yokai education system won in this poll as the topic of my lore dump, have a ramble.

The yokai education system is fairly complicated in nature: even though it's largely publicly funded via taxes, it doesn't necessarily resemble what people think of as a public school. (This is because I'm drawing a lot on my experiences from being homeschooled/ homeschool co-ops/in the US school system, so there's kind of a hodge-podge.) Also, as a rather important sidenote, I'm working with the headcanon that different yokai species have different rates of development/aging, so the whole process of education isn't nearly as standardized as it would be in a US public school anyway.

Yokai schools have a lot of variety in size and purpose, but are usually designed to provide classes for any level of education. This might be done through having multiple wings or floors in the building for different levels of education (kids are usually separated from adults, gen eds from higher level classes, etc) or having the school itself spread out over multiple buildings. Schools tend to be pretty large, and one person might spend their entire educational career (from what we'd consider pre-k all the way to a PhD) at one building or campus.

It's also fairly common for schools to be organized by subject: a wing (or floor or building) for science, for arts, for history, etc. If this is the case, there's usually a separate area specifically for the lower education levels (think elementary/middle school-ish) so that the youngest kids don't have to run all over the place or between buildings to get to classes.

Speaking of classes: they tend to be relatively small, no more than 20 students tops, but usually around 10-15, even going as small as 4-5 people on occasion. Students are more likely to take 3-4 days of classes than 5 days in a row, but it depends on what the parent is willing/able to teach them at home. Also, the selection of teachers is less "you went to school to learn how to educate" and more "hey we heard you're a physical therapist, would you like to teach anatomy and physiology classes this semester". There's a bit of a social expectation that people who have spent a long time in a given field will eventually teach a class about it, or at least come in and do guest lectures.

Also: P.E. is generally considered to be an extracurricular activity and/or a parental responsibility. Yokai are too varied in body types and exercise needs for any form of standardized physical education to be particularly effective (like how can you have bird person and a centaur and sentient slime do the same exercises? not easily, and it's way easier to teach a class where everyone's doing the same exercises than it is to teach one where everyone has to do different things.)

Schools will usually have sports teams though, and it's fairly common to offer some kind of fighting/weapons class. They often have plenty of clubs and extracurriculars, from chess and art clubs to theater productions. However, there's only one or two schools in the Hidden City that currently offer a robotics club.

Feel free to ask questions! This is barely a fraction of the lore I have, and, as you may have guessed, I like infodumping lol

[sillyname30]

Spring break for most K-12 schools is in April, so I assume pre-k follows the same schedule. Either way, a week off probably wouldn’t hurt a preschooler. That’s assuming she’s in preschool anyways. Darren follows quite a few child development accounts that are specifically dedicated to a pre-k homeschool curriculum. None of that is really relevant though lol.

They’re probably on a trip. We’ll just never know where they went, and that’s okay.

Thanks for the info.

This has nothing to do with Darren, but I was really confused when I heard for the first time of pre-school some years ago in a tv show. If you don't grow up with it, it's weird that there's first pre-school, then kindergarten, then school. You would expect kindergarten, pre-school, school. I was like 'Why is this tiny kid going to school?' A season later this kid got into kindergarten and I was like 'okay?'.

It shows even in a tv show you can learn some things and finding out differences between countries is interesting.

[astars-things]

But also if she’s 4 she would start kingeration next year… so she can’t miss that much school.. how does that play out? Does he do a lot of education stuff on the road during her Pre-K year so she isn’t behind?

(Sorry I’m in education so that’s why I’m thinking about it from such a logical POV, also in the US they literally will send ppl to your house if your kid misses too much school. Like a wellness check)

It's okay, so while Jack is on the road and y/n is with him he does some homeschooling with her so she isn't behind and that's what works for them, but because y/n is shy she is only going to preschool to develop some social skills and for when she starts kindergarten she is mainly doing it through homeschool but later on down the track she does go back to school full time.

[theamd426]

Julie and the Phantoms Catholic School AU head-cannons

Idk if I’ll ever write this AU, but this was kind of fun! Let me know what you think!

Julie and Carlos were both enrolled as Pre-K 4 students. Rose didn’t want to send them to school too early. Their parents sent them to Catholic school because it was smaller and they had friends who’s kid’s went there. Ray being the dad he is would let Julie or Carlos go to a different school if they wanted to.

Alex was enrolled as a pre-k 3 student. His parents are super devout pro-life Catholics. They go to confession twice a month, make Alex be involved in the youth group, and he’s an alter server. He hates every single aspect of it.

Saint Margret’s (the fictional school name) is actually known for its academics so Alex’s parents also put him in all honors and AP classes, which does not help with his stress levels at all.

Luke’s parents started sending him there in 7th grade. They can’t comfortably afford catholic school, but they lowkey hope that it will make it easier for him to focus and harder for him to skip class since the teacher student ratio is like 20-1. It is harder to sneak out, but he still manages to sneak away every once in a while and practice guitar.

Reggie is a scholarship student who was enrolled in 4th grade. He is strictly there for academics because the public school in his district was failing. One of his neighbors actually put his name in for a Knights of Columbus scholarship because they saw his potential and were worried about his wellbeing and wanted to make sure he got a decent education. He took three busses by himself just to get to school every day.

Carrie’s dad enrolled her in 9th grade as a way to keep her in line and help her focus on her studies. He read that a lot of the kids who went there ended up going to top colleges and he really didn’t want to have to write a big check to get her into school. She is constantly getting dress coded because she rolls up her skirt and tries to accessorize her uniform.

Bobby used to live with his Lola before he moved in with his Uncle Trevor and cousin Carrie. He started going in 10th grade with Carrie just so Trevor didn’t have to figure out how to get them to two separate schools. He was raised Catholic by his Lola, but he doesn’t really believe in god anymore.

Flynn is Julie’s neighbor and does not go to Catholic school. Los Feliz high is a great school and she is constantly trying to pressure Julie to transfer. She makes fun of Julie’s uniform and tries to pressure her to make her skirt shorter. Julie never gives into the peer pressure.

Willie has been kicked out of 6th schools and his dad enrolled him as a junior begging him to stay in line or he’ll have to be homeschooled. Willie knows he’s too social for that so he tries to behave, but he forgets the Catholic Church frowns upon homosexual relationships and gets caught making out with a blonde boy in the boys bathroom. Whoops!

The school doesn’t call Alex’s parents and tell them because Alex swears he’s not out yet and he really doesn’t want to get kicked out and he promises to go to confession that Friday. Both Alex and Willie get detention for two weeks and Alex’s parents ground him for that duration as well.

Julie and Alex have known each other their entire lives. Even though they weren’t in the same class they had the same lunch and recess time so they hung out a lot. They kind of consider themselves as siblings and Julie is the first person Alex comes out to.

Reggie, and Alex were in the same 4th grade class and became best friends. On nights when Reggie’s dad would get black out drunk he would ride his bike over to Alex’s house and sleep on his floor. Eventually Alex’s parents found out and they put a stop to it.

Reggie’s home life didn’t get better and he started sleeping at the beach or would sometimes sleep in the school. He stopped going home all together right after he started sophomore year. He would shower in the boys locker room and ask Alex if he could do laundry at his house since “their washer was busted and his mom won’t give him money to go to the laundromat.”

Ray found Reggie sleeping under the bleachers while setting up for a fall Halloween fundraiser. Reggie hadn’t been going home for almost three months at that point and he was never declared missing.

Ray called CPS, and ended up getting custody of Reggie as a kinship foster placement. The school wanted to expel Reggie for sneaking in after hours, but Ray was adamant he didn’t get a punishment. He swore he was going to pull Carlos and Julie out if they expelled Reggie since he was clearly being neglected and abused at home and he didn’t know what else to do.

The second Tia Victoria realized Reggie had basically been living off of school lunches for three months she made him so much homemade food. He instantly became a member of their family.

[supernaturalkickparty]

Hi! Weird question but I saw you were talking about homeschooling your kiddo. I was homeschooled from 9-18 and was wondering if you’ve settled on a curriculum yet. I was raised on Abeka and I want to do something different for my future kids. Sorry if this is too nosey! No pressure to respond 😊

Hey! Yeah so we do have a curriculum and well we have 2, the first one is Splashlearn, it's 19 bucks a month and it goes up to 5th grade, from there we have to switch over to Time4Learning. That one I think is 29 a month but both have a yearly option which we will switch to during income season.

The reason we chose those programs is because they are special education friendly. My son is on the spectrum and has adhd and the whole scheduling with these programs are very flexible.

Right now he's in pre k so he has one live class a day, Monday through Thursday but we have worksheets for him to do extra assignments to help with his handwriting and whatever else.

Monday & Wednesday are his math days and Tuesdays & Thursdays are his E.L.A days.

Splashlearn does have a free option but you don't get the online classes which I think helps a lot with him. He really looks forward to school during the week and he loves that for each class he completes there's a quiz and he wins points for his online aquarium he has through them.

So right now we're on splashlearn and once he's in 5th grade we're going to time for learning.

Here's Splashlearn if you would like to read up on it.

And here's Time4Learning if you would like to read through this as well