What would YOU have to do to SAH?

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What would YOU have to do to SAH?
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Fri, 02-13-2009 - 5:09pm

If you're a WOH/WAH mom, what sort of "downsizing" would you need to do in order to afford to be a SAHM? (SAHM defined here as not earning any money)

For me, I would have to put all our non-essential possessions in storage and move in with my parents.

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Registered: 07-17-2007
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:37pm
Wow. My parents wanted us to get all As and Bs. If we got a C, we had to spend more time studying and less TV time (only screen at the time and no cable yet either).
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Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:40pm

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I'm the one that originally made the statement about teachers needing to see kids' problem areas.

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:42pm
We're asked to sign ds' homework folder every week. However, if we don't sign it, there are no punitive measures to the child or his grade.
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Registered: 02-05-2009
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:48pm
I don't even view science fair projects, etc as "family projects". I view them as child-projects that require more supervision and guidance from the parents than is seen in normal work.
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Registered: 02-05-2009
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:49pm
*nodding*
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Registered: 07-23-2003
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:57pm

How harshly are we taking.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:58pm
We are expected to send our children's homework in corrected.
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Wed, 02-25-2009 - 1:59pm

I'm not sure what our local high school is doing with grading and grade point averages. When I was in high school, our school didn't weight grades for AP or honors classes and we had an 8 point scale 93-100 was an A and so forth. I remember college applications always asked for an unweighted GPA. However, I didn't like that we had an 8 point scale and other schools had a 10 point scale. It'll be interesting to see how much it has changed when Samantha starts school.

9:40am is really, really late to be starting school. I can't believe they would even consider starting that late-- and I'm not even a morning person. It would be a child care nightmare for many parents. I don't know that I'd want to leave my middle school kid home alone a couple of hours every morning.

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 2:06pm
What age kids?
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Registered: 07-17-2007
Wed, 02-25-2009 - 2:06pm

That is the way it is at YDS's school. A school where 99%, perhaps 100% of the parents are college educated (most with post graduate degrees). Although, some do not speak English, they are highly educated. There is arguably sometimes too much parent support at home.

OTOH, at ODS's school they try to have very little homework as there is a significant percentage of the parent population that never graduated from a high school and a significant % that don't speak English. About 30% of the kids get free or reduced meals and don't have the parental support at home to check their homework ( they are out working their second job).

The schools are in the same school district and are about 2 1/2 miles away from each other on the same road.

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