Today is the shortest day of the year. If you are trying to explain to your children how the days get longer and shorter, the Astronomy Picture of the Day for today might be helpful. It shows the sun rising in a Greek today at Summer Solstice, Equinox, and Winter Solstice.
We always have to be careful when a chicken little starts yelling the sky is falling. Joane Jacobs has a post discussing a Christian Science Monitor article examinding the data for just how many engineers the United States, India and China are really graduating each year. Part of the problem is India and China appears to call a lot more people engineers than we do in the US. When comparing like to like "the Duke study finds the US handed out 137,437 bachelor's degrees last year, more than India's 112,000."
Daryl Cobranchi has a post and links to an article about to some bullying in Massachusetts. This is about the same victim we talked about just over a week ago. Billy George has been beaten up several times at school. The parents pulled him from school. The issue is working its way through the court. Daryl rightly found this statement about victims by a family court judge very offensive. "I have seen kids wind up in front of a judge because they are sick to their stomach at the idea of going to school, and they are afraid," Perachi said. "It's not unusual for me to order a child to go to school." (Italics added.) The judge is speaking about children who are so afraid they are truant, but I sure hope the quotation is out of context, I can't image thinking the best thing for a young child is to send him back to school to be beaten up again. (We've mention bullying before, here and here.)
The Common Room has a nice list of Books for Boys, posted by the Headmistress.
HomeSchoolBuzz has a post and mentions a column about homeschooling. Someone asked about homeschooling, and Leanna Landsmann provides a nice answer.
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