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Maybe you need an "I teach my kids Latin, and I'm not apologizing" T-shirt, too? ;)

You see this is why I don't ever bring up the fact that science is our main subject. People really think you are nuts when you spend 45 minutes a day on Science. That's not counting all the disussion during the day of course since we learn science in just about everything.

We do Science and Math always. Next comes grammar and Latin. Though Latin is really part of science (Thanks to Linnaeus and my botany professor)and supplements our grammar.

As a true heretic, I have to admit that History is last on my list. It getrs discussed in science, latin, and reading though. But that might not count since it's not "official" history.

Here, here! I knew we'd get bizzaro looks when I said we're doing Latin (instead of Spanish - which is pro forma here). But already, I'm seeing M decifer Spanish words from the teensy bit of Latin she's been exposed to. Latin has further been reinforced by our grammar studies.

I agree math is up there for us too. M just passed 1.7 years ahead of grade level using Saxon. I'm very pleased. I do wish she would take an interest in reading SOTW4 for fun - congrats on raising an exploratory learner!

Sounds like a good t-shirt, but it should be in Latin to begin with.

Hey! I want one of those shirts too!

And did you know that ladybugs eat aphids? My 6 yr old told me....*I* didn't teach him that! How's THAT for science???

Oh, man, I might even be able to figure out how to say that in Latin.

Sheila, I don't think you're crazy at all. I think that your kids will get a fine education that way. There are so many ways to help our kids get an excellent education that this kind of wrangling over definitions and what subject "should" be the focus is silly.

One of the problems I'm having with these folks on the WTM boards is that they express *concern* over my method of education. Why, for Heaven's sakes, are they concerned about the way I teach my kids? If they don't like it, well, they don't have to do it. Voila! We're all happy.

*curses* My connection bailed on me just as I hit "post".

I follow what you're doing, not because you're lopsided and I worry about your children, but because 1) I'm lazy and I want to see how you do it, 2) you're farther ahead of us, and I want to see how you do it, 3) you're one of my heroes in the Classical/Latin education world and I like to see how you do it, and 4) I still haven't been able to get my hands on a copy of Climbing Parnassus... so I, you know, come see how you do it.

Personally, I'd love to know what the Latin for "weirdo" is. I like Mungo's t-shirt idea!

Dy

Actually, I was thinking the T-shirt should be in Greek, just to be perverse. ;)

I have one thing for the idiots who are more concerned about your children than their own.

Bite me.

You could even say it in latin; I think it's go over just as well either way.

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I just say "like Marva Collins" and leave it at that.

The phrase in Latin would be something like "ego docui Latin ut meus liberi quod ego non rumex", yes? Of course, I'm not sure of either docui or rumex, because I got those from an English to Latin translator, and I probably just said the Latin equivalent of "I write my kids Latin and amn't sorry", but I don't know Latin (as is probably obvious).

On the back, you should put one of my favorite Mark Twain quotes: "I never let schooling interfere with my education."

Jeff, you just said something like "I taught Latin to my children because I don't sorrel."

Rumex means sorrel, not sorry. What an interesting translator you used ;-)

I can't figure out a word for sorry. How about:

"Latinam liberis doceo et ego non culpa sum."

Does anyone know if that works or not?

But I like Mungo's idea. It should be in Greek!

Ok can I just say, don't bother with the freeks, er um, oddly interested others in YOUR children's educations. Come on? Are they really worried that if you focus on Latin and classical learnings that your children will miss out on exposure to art, music, history, literature??? HUH???? The Latin and Greek (don't want to forget them ;-) worlds and the study of them would somehow keep my children from exposure to those very things that have laid the foundation for all that followed across Europe and to US?

Forgive my mediocre PS education, but how did I miss this *fact?*

You just keep on rocking and teaching in just the way you know best!