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[kazoosandfannypacks]

Splendid! I am also a graduated homeschooled kid, so I'll be speaking from that perspective. I am also speaking from a place of some sort of "privilege," in a way, as my parents both have a healthy relationship with each other and with their kids, so I'm speaking from that context. I also do have some experience within the public school system, as I've been a program aide at an afterschool program for the past year or so.

Let me be clear in this, though: there are some parents who do not have a firm handle on their responsibility as parents, and there are some families where this model is not feasible. I am not saying that every family in the world should be homeschooling their kids. What my argument is is that an individualized education is better for every child.

An individualized education can take many forms, because, of course, every kid is different. There are some kids who learn better by sitting still and listening to someone teach. There are some kids who learn better by reading. Some kids learn best through experience. Some kids learn best by other methods, and some kids learn best by one of the above methods, but with aids like fidget toys and music, while some kids need absolute silence, and others need other kids around them to help them stay on task. Obviously, one wouldn't expect a teacher in a classroom setting to be able to identify and accomodate all these needs for all sixteen to forty-five kids in their class (but if they can, kudos!)

But one-to-two parents teaching their one-to-twelve kids absolutely can.

When kids are schooled at home, you can more easily meet their individual needs.

For literature courses, my mom would often assign reading based on some of our interests, alongside our standard literature curricula. Both my brothers took Portuguese for their language credit because they have camp friends from Brazil. For gym class, we could ride our bikes or play football in the backyard. These were things that kept us interested and engaged while still allowing us to gain our necessary education.

We also had the opportunity to learn how we needed to. We could go to our rooms and be by ourselves in the middle of schoolwork, if we needed to. We could listen to music in our earbuds if it helped. If we had a particularly distracting stim that helped us focus, we could work in a different space than our siblings. We could sit down and read on the couch, in a comfortable environment, and if we wanted to keep working ahead, we had the space and time to do that.

In eleventh grade, I had done enough of my school requirements that I would only have two classes in twelfth grade, english and history. My eleventh grade english and history courses finished quickly (one of them was a college level course that was only eight weeks) so I was able to cram in both credits for my twelfth grade year by adding an extra year's worth of both into my schedule. It was a lot of work, but I chose to do it, worked at it, and was able to finish school at sixteen (graduating at seventeen because the summer was busy.) I had the freedom to customize my education to fit me, and I succeeded in a way I might not have been able to if I were in a public school.

Another question that comes up with homeschool is that of having multiple grade levels learning in the same place. Haven't we moved past one room schoolhouses?

When I was in kindergarten, my brother was in third grade, and my sister was in fourth. Was anyone academically challenged because of our shared learning enviornment? Not at all! Most of our work was us quietly reading out of textbooks anyways, and if mom had to read something out loud and it distracted our siblings, we could just go to another room and focus. I would argue that working at the same kitchen table as my siblings made me smarter— I'd overhear concepts for three or four grade levels ahead of me, and I had a remarkable memory as a kid, so when I got these subjects years later, I'd already be preapred with the framework for these topics because I'd heard them from my siblings.

Another point I'd like to add, though it's not talked about a lot, is that homeschool can also be individualized to match the needs of every parent. My mom had us on a very strict schedule because that's the kind of person she is. Her friend, on the other hand, tells her kids, "you can get started with your school whenever, but if you have any questions, don't ask me until after 9 am." One model gets kids used to rigid schedules, another gets kids learning how to function on their own schedule, and neither one is wrong.

There are some parents who don't know much about every subject in school and use that to argue that they could never homeschool, but you really don't need to know everything. My mom almost never had to "teach" us anything once we'd learned how to read. We would read the lessons out of our textbooks, write down the answers to any questions or problems the material gave, and then mom would use the provided answer keys to check our work.

And yes, there were times we had questions, and there were times mom would need to look it up with us and learn with us to help explain it to us, and there were times we had to wait for dad to wake up (he worked the night shift) and explain math to us. But, by now, my mom has been doing this for almost two decades and has learned a lot of the secrets to it. There's video lesson courses for lots of subjects, where you can watch a teacher explain the material. My little brother is doing a video math series right now, and my mom watches along, so she's re-learning alongside him, and it helps her help him work it out. My older sister and I still live at home, so when something comes up that we understand but my mom and brother don't get but we do, we can help explain them in ways that make sense.

One might be tempted to say "well, if it takes two decades for parents to figure out what works, only the youngest kids in the family will be able to succeed," and this thought brings me to the other main point of my thesis: though it may seem ironic, homeschooling is about community.

When my siblings and I first started school, my mom got a lot of advice from my aunt about what worked with her kids. My mom passes along her old textbooks to one of her friends whose kid is a grade behind my brother. Whenever someone posts online that they want to start homeschooling and are looking for advice, there's almost a dozen mothers from my church who come in the clutch with support, advice, and encouragement. If a kid is struggling with learning from one specific textbook, their parent can ask around and get recommendations for dozens of curricula that might work better for them. Community spirit is critical to the homeschooling process. It takes a village!

Remember earlier when I said some kids learn better surrounded by other students? That's possible with homeschooling. When I was a kid, my church offered two different bi-weekly art classes for homeschoolers. Now, they've expanded to a full-on co-op, where students can meet for classes on creative writing, art, history, or whatever courses experienced parents in the co-op are willing to offer, and there's monthly field-trips to local businesses and museums! They also have an annual fair (in the past they've done science fairs, history fairs, art fairs, and culture fairs) where the kids research a topic and give a presentation about it, with a booth where they can show their research about a particular topic.

Community learning doesn't have to be so official, though. What's to say a parent can't team up with a friend who's also homeschooling their kids? Maybe they can meet together for classes on topics one parent doesn't understand as well. They could even alternate which house they meet at for school to get their kids out of the house and around other kids more. A few families' kids can meet for an organized sport in the biggest backyard, while the parents sit on the porch with their coffee and discuss how their week has been going. They can even come up with field trips and outings to go on together, or work on projects together as a group.

Now, are there struggles related to homeschooling? Of course. Is anyone going to do it perfectly? No way! Why do I care so much?

I work with kids. The kids I see at work go to school for eight hours every day. They then spend three or four hours at our afterschool program. They go home for dinner and a couple hours with their family, then go to be by eight so they can do the same thing again. Some of them have parents in separate houses they jump in between. A lot of them see their teacher more than they see their own mom or dad.

And it shows. It really does. Sure, it's not always the case, but I have noticed that many of the kids in our afterschool program have parents who don't know their own kids. We don't call home to parents often, but when we do, it's because their kid has had a consistent disruptive or harmful behavior that we haven't been able to handle. We tell parents when an issue arises and they seem surprised. We ask how they help their children manage behaviors and emotions, and they tell us simply that they don't. We let them know what their kid did, and they say "oh, he's just like that at home; we usually just let it happen."

Hoemschooling, to me, largely falls under the umbrella of the theory I call "raise your own kids." Obviously, there's some situations where this is impossible, where families are struggling to make ends meet, or parents are separated, or something prevents parents from staying home with their kids, and I get that. There are also some home enviornments that kids should be away from as much as possible, and, by all means, let's avoid that.

But also? There are some families where one parent's entire paycheck goes to daycare services. Read that again. One parent is working full-time to pay someone else to raise their kids. Why? Isn't it better for your kids for you to simply be at home with them?

But, I digress.

The point is, one teacher should not be expected to know everything about each and every one of their students. But, every good parent should be held accountable to know their kids' unique learning abilities and challenges, and to help discipline and raise them. Sure, this might look different for every family. But, doesn't a world where every kid has an education that's designed to work for them sound better?

As a footnote, I know a lot of people say homeschool gives kids poor social skills and gaps in education, so in case anyone's wondering, I'll answer both of those for me, personally.

I will say that my education, admittedly, did lack the social aspect. I do struggle sometimes with my people skills. I wouldn't say that's a fault within homeschooling, though, it's just the result of one child of one parent not doing it all properly, and may be the result of asd as well. By contrast, my older brother is great at socializing. It depends on the kid, really, and maybe there's some stuff that could have been better indiviualized toward me, like getting me involved in more groups of kids my own age when I was younger.

As far as learning gaps, I don't know about most state, but New York makes sure it's homeschooled kids are getting their necessary education. Every quarter, parents are required to write a report of everything their kids learned and how many credit hours they had. If they don't send these in, the school board sends them several emails about it until they're sent in, at threat of the kids being put in the school system. Parents need to submit a letter of intent to homeschool their kids. Every year or two, we were required to go to the school and take a big standardized test to make certain that we knew everything we were supposed to.

As far as how well I personally fared, academically? Well, on e time, my siblings and I were told we were doing our standardized testing over a course of three days, but there was a slip-up and the teacher gave us the whole three days' worth of tests in one day. I managed to finish well before my siblings and sat down reading magazines for at least an hour, and the teacher let me take them home because I enjoyed reading them so much. All three of us kids passed this big test with flying colors, and despite mom's warning that these tests were often written with questions above their grade level that I wouldn't know yet, fourth grade Kazzy still managed to land a perfect 100%.

Later in life, as mentioned above, I graduated high school a year early, and I made it through an associate's degree in college with a 4.0 [technically, it was a 3.997, but they rounded it up in the grade books, and the only class I had less than a 4.0 in was a class where the teacher had beef with me and I got a C on the final paper because I couldn't be present for the peer review session of class due to quarantine.] Sure, most of my courses were not Gen Ed courses, but the ones that were, I excelled in, and even helped some of the other students once or twice, and since I only had one paper that was below an A- in my whole college career, I'd say I had a pretty firm grasp on academia as a whole. My older siblings also graduated with high honors, too.

me: done properly, an individalized education for every child is better than public schooling.

someone: you know, that could lead to abuse and educational neglect!

me: i cannot stress enough that that is not doing it properly.

[designernishiki]

well. at least he didn’t choose the pen name “i heart nishiki”

[sammysodatime]

WAITTTTT i think that last post is DEFENDING dean……. im not replying to the post itself i dont like picking fights on the internet but oh my god that’s hysterical

[kazzykatt]

wants to write but is only confident writing in their first language (not english)

[pastelwhorezz]

This is what I want fr

[gongedtornado]

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[drdilfenshmirtz]

NOT THE ANDREW CHAIR PFP WJAJSJSD

it was the only possible outcome.

[sabezrasecretsanta]

Sabezra Secret Santa 2024 Christmas Tree!

'Twas the night before Sabezra Secret Santa, and all across this website, all the santas were stirring, to finish their gift by tonight! When what to their wondering eyes should appear, but a tree decked by kazzy, to spread some good cheer!

As a little thank-you gift to all our participants, I made a special Christmas tree! Each ornament on the tree correlates to a different sabezra moment that each santa said was their favorite in an ask I sent them (see which one's yours under the cut ⬇️) and there's a little gift under the tree that maches the blog colors of each giftee 😁 Can't wait to see what gifts we're all gonna unwrap from each other this year 🧡💜

I want to thank everyone so much for participating, and I'm excited to see everyone's work! Remember, you can post any time between now and January 2!

🎅🧡🎁💜🤶

@cursivequestion | Sabine's Jetpack | "My favorite Sabezra Moment is probably the romantic jetpack ride in Imperial Super Commandos🤣"

@ana-cantskywalker | Ezra's lightsaber | "Ezra giving her his lightsaber instinctively without having to ask in Legacy of Mandalore"

@jedi-nurse | Sabine's Jetpack | "The one that always comes to mind is the jetpack scene in Imperial Supercommandos. Such a classic 👌"

@kazoosandfannypacks | The Map | "Everyone was counting on Sabine not to give up the map, but Ezra was counting on her to do what it takes to get to him, and she did. I think that was what really cemented that hope that Sabine's time spent working to bring him back would pay off."

@bart1607 | Ezra's Holo-Pic | "When Sabine gave him that holo-pic with Ezra's parents, for his birthday. That was very sweet and one of the moments that made me ship them together."

@notanodinarygirl | Loth-Wolf | [I never received an answer for this one, but saw this in a list of her favorite sabezra moments!]

@alphaofdarkness | Ezra and Sabine's Helmets | "Ah, there are many ~ but the one that always just warms my heart is their silly moment in 'Heroes of Mandalore Pt. 1'"

@meiloorunsmoothie | Sabine's Customized TIE Fighter | "i just love it when they're fooling around/being a chaotic duo XD."

@supersaiyanjedi14 | The Darksaber | "Their conversation in Trials of the Darksaber"

@illuminatedquill | Sabine's Hologram Projector | "Seeing Sabine watch Ezra’s private message to her with a galaxy’s amount of yearning and angst . . . yeah."

@jedimandalorian | Sabine's Jetpack | "In Rebels, it was their teamwork on their 'romantic' jet pack ride. 😂 I loved all of their team-ups in seasons 3 and 4."

@black-cat-babe : | Little Noti's Rebel Starbird | "favorite sabezra moment was when they reunited in Ahsoka. Believe me when I say I had been dreaming about that moment for years and it was so much better than expected!"

[accidental-spice]

we don't know each other 🙈, but i'm here from kazzy's blog and am always happy to see another rebels fan, so

sabine! 🍁

Hello there!!! I remember seeing you on Kazzy's blog! Fair warming, I don't work with markers super often, but I wanted to use color, and I think this still turned out okay!

She's being Captain Marvel for Halloween!!

Thanks for the ask!!

Ask game

[kazoosandfannypacks]

wow three bad takes in a row i think i should uninstall instagram and never watch reels again

[cuboid-asks]

Blog Intro Post !!

[PLZ READ IF U HAVE ASKS FOR ANY OF US !!!]

Hiii !!! This Is a Newly Made Ask-Regretevator Blog Made By @wooahiexist / @gradient-jeremy-asks , @george-bowie and @blacklightkittycat !!!

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I’m The Person Who Designed Unpleasant And Jeremy For This Blog(With Gacha) But @wooahiexist / @gradient-jeremy-asks Did The Art of The PFP So Huge Creds To Them !!!!

Jelly/Jeremy !!

He/Him

Trans Masculine (Self Titled Transformer /j)

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The Guy Who Drew The PFP And Helped Make All of This Possible !! Thankies You Jelly :3

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It/He

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List of Characters You Can Ask !!

Unpleasant

Jeremy

More May Be Added In The Future !!!

—Fr GeorgeKaz !!

For The Asks, We/I Will Respond With Either Text/Photos/Videos/Etc, But We Do Have Lives, We’re Not Going To Immediately Respond Every Time, Art Takes Time, Video’s Take Time, Hell, Even Making Gacha(My Primary Source of Art) Takes Time, So Please Be Patient, We Are Not Ur Slaves.

At Least Two of Us Are Minors So No Gross or Disgusting Asks, Plz, We Want To Keep This As Clean As We Can.

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And, Posts Will Be Colour Coded With Who Is Responding According To Each Profile Colour !!!

[kazoosandfannypacks]

YOU WROTE AN EPIC AU????? EVEN BEFORE I WAS HEAVILY IN THE REBELS FANDOM I THOUGHT THERE NEEDED TO BE A KANERA EPIC AU

for the Ao3 writer ask game: 7, 8, and 14!

7. Share a line/paragraph/snippet that you were especially proud of from a work this year! Honestly I love how many times I've gotten this one. Ummmm let's see OH HOW ABOUT THIS ONE from my Epic (2013) au that I love very much:

As he and Hera moved to intercept the troopers, he heard the purge trooper scoff. “I can take down Jedi scum any day,” he said. “But you should at least make it hard. Where’s your weapon, Twi’lek?”

Kanan felt a grin cross his face, and he couldn’t resist stopping to watch, just for a moment.

Hera smiled at the purge trooper. “I don’t need one,” she said, and the kyber crystal around her neck began to glow.

8. What's your favorite work you posted this past year? DANG that's hard. Let's go with "Truth And Consequences", my first fic in the Valiant tag!

14. Give us a sneak peek of one of your upcoming works! Hehehehe will do!! From the Sabezra Aladdin Au:

That was the first day Sabine ever met Ezra Bridger. Outsider, Rebel thief, and her best friend in the galaxy. Though she hadn’t thought it on the first day they met, she couldn’t imagine her life without him now.

Sometimes, she wondered if it was just as a friend. But now, things were complicated. Now, she understood her duties to her clan better. She had to protect her people, no matter how much she wanted to rebel and—

“Sabine! Are you even paying attention?”

[georgiesblurredbones]

INTRO POST !!!

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This User Kins Blurr !!

This User Kins Starscream !!

Hello !! I Am Georgie/George/Bones/Drift/Fresh/Kaz/Kazzie/Blurr/Blurre (Whatevr U Wanna Call Me :333 !!!)

I Go By All Pronouns But I Prefer They/Them/She/Her/Day/Dayself/Bones/Bonself, But He/It Is Okay :33

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More Info In The Links !!

I MADE A POORLY DONE STRAWPAGE !!

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Silly Little GIF’s Bc Why Not🤑🤑

[kazzykatt]

me siento viejo wey, hace 8 años esto hubiera explotado

[tontos-kratt]

hellow! welcome to kazzykatt‘s Wild Kratts sideblog

Here you can find both original works and reblogs related to the Wild Kratts universe. This includes edits, headcanons, original characters, ships, and other people’s AUs (for kazzy’s aus go check kratt-au-void) 

-This is a bilingual blog-

english posts are tagged wild kratts spanish post are tagged aventuras con los kratt

Art requests and Tags info under the cut ⬇️

-Art requests are allowed with some rules:

1.-Be as specific as you can 2.-Nothing sexual 3.-Blood/angst is fine 4.-If you want art of your WKOCs or sonas send the reference with the request

Tags

Canon Characters are tagged with their names (martin kratt, chris kratt, and so on)

Alternative Universes are tagged with their AU name

Toodles and Salutations are tagged with their names

OCs made for the wild kratts universe are tagged as wkocs

Art made by me is tagged as “my art”

asks and reblogs are tagged as such

Ships will be tagged with a ship name (I invented some of the ships names just for the sake of tagging. You don’t have to use the same name I use)

Ships i like: 

-Zartin (MartinxZach) -Dotin (MartinxDonita) -Marki (MartinxKoki) -Martimmy (MartinxJimmy)     -Chrizach (ChrisxZach) -Doniris (ChrisxDonita) -Chroki (ChrisxKoki) -Chrisimmy (ChrisxJimmy) -Martin/Zach/Donita/Chris polycule (MZDC) this is not kcest, Chris and Martin are not dating each other

btw none of the ship art i do is meant to be romantic

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