Author: Blake Boles Publisher: Tells Peak Press ISBN: 0986011983 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 165
Book Description
For some kids, school offers a positive and engaging experience. For others, it's a boring, stressful, and frustrating waste of time. If your child is in the second category, why keep tormenting them? Instead, why not help them find an educational environment where they feel genuinely motivated, excited, and empowered? In this eye-opening book, Blake Boles makes the case for leaving conventional school and taking one of the many alternative paths through K-12 that exist today. He addresses parents' major concerns about unconventional education -- Can my kids still go to college? Will they still be employable? How will they learn to work hard? -- while highlighting the hidden benefits of self-directed learning, such as improved parent-child relationships, a more balanced decision-making process regarding college, and a heightened sense of autonomy and connection. Drawing upon 15 years of work as a mentor and guide for adolescents in alternative and experiential learning environments -- as well as his own unconventional life path -- Boles weaves together narrative, theory, and research to build a powerful argument for granting children unusual levels of freedom and responsibility.
Author: Blake Boles Publisher: New Society Publishers ISBN: 1550924362 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 177
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Because the real world is the best education. High school can be boring. High school curriculum can be frustrating and out of touch. So what is the answer for young people whose creativity, bright ideas, and boundless energy are being stifled in that over-scheduled and grade-driven environment? What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? Would you travel abroad, spend late nights writing a novel, volunteer in an emergency room, or build your own company? What dreams would you be pursuing right now? College Without High School shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. Students begin by defining their goals and dreams and then pursue them through a combination of meaningful and engaging adventures. It is possible to pursue your dreams, and gain admission to any college of your choice. Boles shows how to fulfill college admission requirements by proving five preparatory results: intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning. He then offers several suggestions for life-changing, confidence-building adventures that will demonstrate those results. This intriguing approach to following your dreams and doing college prep on your own terms will be welcomed by students (and their parents).
Author: Lisa Heffernan Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250188954 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Author: Blake Boles Publisher: Tells Peak Press ISBN: 0986011908 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
Do you need college in order to be taken seriously and earn a real living? Conventional wisdom says yes. But true success relies upon self-knowledge and entrepreneurship: two qualities that you can obtain effectively and inexpensively without traditional college. Better Than College provides the step-by-step guidance and inspiration necessary to design your own higher education. This book teaches you how to find community, stay on track, and get hired or start your own venture, all without a four-year degree. Curious college students will learn to think clearly about their motivations, plan a gap year, or navigate life after school. And Better Than College will show parents how self-directed learning can lead to a lifetime of achievement-no expensive institution required.
Author: James M. Dahle Publisher: White Coat Investor LLC the ISBN: 9780991433100 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 160
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Written by a practicing emergency physician, The White Coat Investor is a high-yield manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing life saving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and asset protection. This book fills in the gaps and will teach you to use your high income to escape from your student loans, provide for your family, build wealth, and stop getting ripped off by unscrupulous financial professionals. Straight talk and clear explanations allow the book to be easily digested by a novice to the subject matter yet the book also contains advanced concepts specific to physicians you won't find in other financial books. This book will teach you how to: Graduate from medical school with as little debt as possible Escape from student loans within two to five years of residency graduation Purchase the right types and amounts of insurance Decide when to buy a house and how much to spend on it Learn to invest in a sensible, low-cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of an advisor Avoid investments which are designed to be sold, not bought Select advisors who give great service and advice at a fair price Become a millionaire within five to ten years of residency graduation Use a "Backdoor Roth IRA" and "Stealth IRA" to boost your retirement funds and decrease your taxes Protect your hard-won assets from professional and personal lawsuits Avoid estate taxes, avoid probate, and ensure your children and your money go where you want when you die Minimize your tax burden, keeping more of your hard-earned money Decide between an employee job and an independent contractor job Choose between sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Company, S Corporation, and C Corporation Take a look at the first pages of the book by clicking on the Look Inside feature Praise For The White Coat Investor "Much of my financial planning practice is helping doctors to correct mistakes that reading this book would have avoided in the first place." - Allan S. Roth, MBA, CPA, CFP(R), Author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street "Jim Dahle has done a lot of thinking about the peculiar financial problems facing physicians, and you, lucky reader, are about to reap the bounty of both his experience and his research." - William J. Bernstein, MD, Author of The Investor's Manifesto and seven other investing books "This book should be in every career counselor's office and delivered with every medical degree." - Rick Van Ness, Author of Common Sense Investing "The White Coat Investor provides an expert consult for your finances. I now feel confident I can be a millionaire at 40 without feeling like a jerk." - Joe Jones, DO "Jim Dahle has done for physician financial illiteracy what penicillin did for neurosyphilis." - Dennis Bethel, MD "An excellent practical personal finance guide for physicians in training and in practice from a non biased source we can actually trust." - Greg E Wilde, M.D Scroll up, click the buy button, and get started today!
Author: Blake Boles Publisher: Tells Peak Press ISBN: 0986011975 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
For some kids, school offers a positive and engaging experience. For others, it's a boring, stressful, and frustrating waste of time. If your child is in the second category, why keep tormenting them? Instead, why not help them find an educational environment where they feel genuinely motivated, excited, and empowered? In this eye-opening book, Blake Boles makes the case for leaving conventional school and taking one of the many alternative paths through K-12 that exist today. He addresses parents' major concerns about unconventional education -- Can my kids still go to college? Will they still be employable? How will they learn to work hard? -- while highlighting the hidden benefits of self-directed learning, such as improved parent-child relationships, a more balanced decision-making process regarding college, and a heightened sense of autonomy and connection. Drawing upon 15 years of work as a mentor and guide for adolescents in alternative and experiential learning environments -- as well as his own unconventional life path -- Boles weaves together narrative, theory, and research to build a powerful argument for granting children unusual levels of freedom and responsibility.
Author: Carole Richards Publisher: ISBN: 9781723928109 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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Fire and brimstone! is this what school is? it has potential. Ah, your thinking yes 'quality of teaching'. And no. I mean 'to wreck your childs life' Here are a few reasons why it is bad. Bullying, not just from other children, but also teachers, 'bullying' and prejudice. Everybody talks about kids bullying never about teachers doing so - or picking on the child. Both my husband and I were subjected to prejudices, even cruelty from teachers. A child cannot succeed or even show up as capable of a subject if their teacher just doesn't like him/her for personal reasons ( they are human). What does school failure lead to? bad reports?who are the reports for, the teacher? the child? the parent? well, if they are for the parent, and the parent has issues about their childs success the child will be told off or worse. Why persecute a child, maybe they are doing their best really, do the parents need to know? to have a written report? My mother tore up my reports and threw them on the floor. My class teacher was the maths teacher and the music teacher. I was bottom of bottom in maths, so she presumed I was bad at music which I am not, and without checking it out gave me bad reports for both. She, along with another teacher overtly disliked me. Again it was a subject I was very capable of, but the teacher never recognised it, wouldnt see, didn't want to know. .Children who are quiet get ignored children who are alpha get all the attention. Children should not be sat on their bums most of the day (they will with pc games later too). The hours are way too long, they dont need it,mine did two to three a day a passed out their school taught friends. Homework is absurd, why not keep them at school another hour or two. Poor kids have to do more than a jobs worth of hours p.d. ( and no reqards except hypothetically in the distant future do they even have a sense that there is a remote outcome?) A school child is branded for life by how they get on at school. Schools, ( once so badly needed) are militaristic, take away initiative intentionally, don't provide for creativity, are outdated in music lessons, train for compliance, and obedience, and to crush individuality. Exams should not exist, like reports -who are they for? they distress the child until they might need support therapy. A child might feel ill or not their best on exam days or week and everything rests on it, that is highly unfair. An assessment of over the years work should be adequate, and much fairer. They are outdated, still running on Victorian principals, Uniform does not create the appearance of equality it is another way of smothering identity, we say who we are through our clothes. Also, poor parents cannot supply the quality of uniform better off ones can and it shows. It puts poor families under pressure. I could and did got on and on-- streaming, what is that for? to make sure the child knows he is inferior or superior?. The whole system needs modernising. Read this then see what you think yourself. I educated my three, and complied to little if anything that a school curriculum specified, but they are all successful in all aspects of their lives. A child needs to have the freedomn to find things and themselves out, not have every minute of most of the day and for years spoken for.
Author: Britton B. LaTulippe Publisher: ISBN: 9781500910501 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
The most controversial book on American education ever written: More Blood thoroughly chronicles the history, problems, and psychology of American Schools like you've never heard before, with stories from the Author's own life experience in all 3 different types of schools across the nation. You'll never think about school in the way same again.Part 1: A Place Without LoveWith exciting personal stories, Britton LaTulippe addresses the most devastating problems with American Schools. Take a journey through public, private, and elite prep schools while awakening to the REAL educational environment that you're sending your children into. Part 2: The Evolution of TyrannyThe dark history of school is revealed, along with a glimpse of an even darker future coming. Learn why school is the evolution of tyranny. Part 3: A Programmable ManA secret science is being used against your children! Before sending them off to school you must know what has been done and is being done to students- it will forever change the way you see American schools.
Author: Jessica Mwanzia Publisher: Conran Octopus ISBN: 9781291326376 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 553
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"Mounting disquiet about state education in the UK needs a focus for challenge. So what is wrong with the present model? Does it serve our children as we have been convinced to believe it does or is it intrinsically damaging? Moreover, how does it shape and limit the world we live in? So, [this book] is a comprehensive attack on our school system and encourages us to look for better ways to raise our young."--Back cover.
Author: Michael Wenkart Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3735793479 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 245
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Is homeschooling a reasonable alternative to the classical school system? Estimates suggest there are at least 1.5m Americans who have turned to homeschooling for their children. Whether this is due to a perceived failing in the state education system, religious or political convictions or the need to accommodate some special need of the student or family, it is an issue that causes controversy and, undoubtedly raises very serious questions about the state of future generations of American citizens. Advocates of the system claim it improves the education of the child, shapes it more to their needs and aptitudes and leads to a more rounded individual experience. Critics claim it undermines the public school system, makes children more narrow and prejudiced in their outlook and doesn't offer any significant advantages academically. So who is right? As with all such debates there is a high degree of subjectivity involved when assessing claims and counterclaims. It is difficult to substantiate or disprove a lot of these and not enough objective, scientific research has been conducted to come up with conclusive results either way. Many who have used the system are very happy with the results though they assert it is hard work and requires lots of commitment (and often cost). A few are honest enough to admit there are considerable drawbacks and that the concept is not suitable for everyone - adults or children. A lot of its critics are opposed to it on political grounds claiming it is a reactionary idea that breeds inequality and perpetuates right-wing principles. Others oppose the association with religious beliefs, though there is no strong evidence that this is a major factor in most decisions to homeschool. Homeschooling has had a long, hard road to acceptance. It has been equated with truancy and illegality and has been criticized and pilloried often by people who know little about it.
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