by Leslie Sholly | Apr 20, 2010 | Education, Parenting
The accepted wisdom these days seems to be that our kids need more math in order to be “competitive.” The requirements at my teenagers’ school just changed from three years of math to four–regardless of what level a student has reached upon...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 19, 2010 | Education, Parenting
Since this is the week that public school students are taking the TCAPs, I’ve decided to make it Education Week on my blog. I have enough opinions on this subject for an Education Month, but we’ll just have to see how it goes. I’ve got a busy day...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 18, 2010 | Parenting
It’s late, and I haven’t had time to post anything today, so I thought I’d share something I wrote a long–VERY LONG–time ago (about 15 years ago). [edit: this happened in 1993] The incident I recount below touched me so much at the time...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 14, 2010 | Parenting, shopping
It really is true that you can find almost anything on ebay. I know that many people shop for clothes there, and even big ticket items like cars, but I like to shop for treasures from the past, childhood toys, the kinds of things you think you will NEVER be able to...