June 4, 2002
* Well, so much for the broadband access increasing my time spent working on this journal! Between family, school, work (and working on my BSD firewall) I just can’t seem to devote as much time as I would like to this journal at the moment. I suppose that I could convert it to a weblog (that does seem to be the trend) and that would help, but for now, it’s just turtles, all the way down.
* For a long time now Faith and I have had an ongoing discourse on the deficits of public education. I think we both speak with some authority on the subject, since we are products of the public school system. After trying to work with the system to get Logan the education he needs and deserves, we have finally made a decision that should have been made long ago. Last week was Logan’s last week of public education. At least for the next few years. We have made the decision to home-school. We both feel that this is his best chance for a good education. Too many times we have spoken with teachers that are just overwhelmed by the number of children they teach, or seem to have some sort of power trip thing going on. Mostly it has been the quality and quantity of the material presented. Logan has now spent the last three years on addition and subtraction. It was not until the last two months of class that they finally progressed to fractions. Mind you, Logan, Faith and I all have had discussions with his teachers in an attempt to accelerate his learning material and nothing ever happened. Not that I blame the teachers themselves necessarily, Logan has had the benefit of one or two of the best teachers I have come across, it just seems that there hands are tied by the system that requires that the children pass state-wide standardized tests. Therefore, that is the curriculum they teach regardless of what a child’s individual needs may be. And my children’s individual needs will be best met at home.
* Just for grins, I went ahead and took the BeliefNet’s Belief-O-Matic quiz that purports to categorize what your spiritual beliefs are. It appears that Charlie was close, as both Unitarian and Taoism appear in my top ten.
Here are the top ten (out of the twenty-seven that I was categorized
as):
1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2. New Age (90%)
3. Liberal Quakers (89%)
4. Neo-Pagan (88%)
5. Unitarian Universalism (87%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (86%)
7. Taoism (80%)
8. Bah�’� Faith (72%)
9. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (71%)
10. Orthodox Quaker (69%)
(also of interest are the last six entries)
22. Orthodox Judaism (35%)
23. Islam (33%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (33%)
25. Jehovah’s Witness (26%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (20%)
27. Roman Catholic (20%)
Kind of a curious mix, don’t you think?
June 4, 2002 11:18 pm 
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