It's already February!

I'm reading a good book--"The Chosen" by Chaim Potok. It's a great description of life of Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish boys in Williamsburg, Brooklyn during WW II. It's interesting to me--we used to live in Brooklyn and I never really understood too much of the history of the hasidim.

I'm also starting to give some thought to next year.

A homeschool mom I know wants to get a part-time job--she misses "doing something with her degree." That's seems so strange to me. I feel like I'm really stretching myself intellectually now that I'm homeschooling so many levels. And I'm also getting to do lots of studying/reading on my own. The freedom to study/read anything I want to is really amazing! It's beyond what I had in college.

Some of my friends heard John Taylor Gatto speak last weekend, and I had a chance to read their notes. I've heard him before and I agree with so much he says. The motivations of the public school system are really not to fully educate all children--there is a huge agenda attached to forcing all kids into the system. And the elite of this country have never had their children participate in this system... OK... enough conspiracy theory!

Time to take my 8 year old to ballet!

Larissa