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"Homeschooling is a social threat to public education," Chris Lubienski, who teaches at Iowa State University's college of education, told Time magazine. "It is taking some of the most affluent and articulate parents out of the system. These are the parents who know how to get things done with administrators."

Wait, you mean to tell me that I should not homeschool, because of some other parents that don’t give a good gawddamn what type of school their kids go to?  Hmm So, you’re saying that the ‘good’ parents are homeschooling and leaving the bad parents in the system, and I should drop everything, stop homeschooling and go put my kid in a public school with these products of the ‘bad’ parents?  Well, yeah that makes a ton of sense, I pay well over 85% of my property taxes to the school system, that I don’t use, yet I should just say ‘fuck it’ when it comes to my kids’ education and go DO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM’S JOB?!?!?!?! Hmmmmmm, wow Chris…you make a good point…I think I’ll move to the backwoods and just ignore you morons in the education system.  Or hey, here's an idea...maybe public education is just a BAD IDEA? Nahhh...nothing the governement does is a bad idea, is it?

It really just amazes me how many public educators blame homeschoolers for EVERYTHING…it’s our fault that the public education system sucks…did you know that? I didn’t but thanks for letting me know.

But homeschoolers say the issue is actually about money -- every home-schooled child means fewer dollars in the public school budget, since the money follows the child.

"It's still money being taken away from the classroom," Terry Pesta, of the San Diego Education Association, told thesandiegochannel.com. "When supplies are bought in a classroom, it's not necessarily that just one student is using the supplies. A group of students, sometimes 30 or more, share in the supplies."

Well, I pay my school taxes every year just like the public school parents…yet I shouldn’t homeschool and should put the little ones into public school so that Jimmy; who is a shithead and disrupts the class, can have some fucking crayons? No thanks.

I never knew what a mess I was getting into when I became a parent.  There is a name to this game it’s called ‘Keep under the government’s radar’ and homeschoolers don’t do that.  We have to actually ALERT the government that we exist….now I tell you does that sound like a free country?  Sure you can argue “Well, then there would be parents with kids who didn’t go to school, home or public.” Well to that I say; “not my problem.”  Those aren’t my kids, and if the government would get their shit out of everybody else’s then those children wouldn’t be anyone’s problem.  We’re a society that tries to ‘help’ everybody yet we push some people into horrible situations because we’re trying to be ‘helpful’ when in all honesty, the ‘help’ doesn’t even HELP those that it should. 

I want the government out of my face, I want them out of my life….until they push my sons’ heads out of their birth canal, they have no right to tell me what choices I can or cannot make for them.

We supposedly have the freedom of choice in this country, in order to have that freedom we must have the freedom to make a bad choice.

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How's This For The Start of Summer;

[Turtle], I am impressed. Sweet chair! Yes, that one leg may present an engineering issue- probably needs a couple L-shaped braces on the backside of the leg. Great photo with the cats, I love it.

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OH WHERE OH WHERE IS MY MARGARITA?
OH WHERE OH WHERE CAN IT BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE???????

School is done, you lovely lovely people...and I now have a full summer 3.5 months to be exact, to do whatever I want, whenever I want...well sort of, I still have kids so I can't just do whatever I want whenever, but I can fuck off and write blog entries and short stories, or whatever the hell I feel like writing, WHEN EVER I WANT TO!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can take pictures 24/7 (which is probably what I'll be doing the first 3 months) and I can go to my dad's on Thursday without having to sit around over there thinking, "Ok, I still have {blank} to do for [class], and I have to write this paper for [class], it's due Sunday and I've started...NONE OF IT!"  So, yay for that whole not thinking about schoolwork thing.

GAH! SUMMER IS A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL SEASON, OH YES IT IS!!!!!!!!!

Wanted; Intelligent writer.  Must be knowledgable in Art History and essays.  Start immediately.  Must work for no charge and complete assignment in 24 hours.  Inquire Within.

MUST.

WRITE.

ART.

PAPER.

XANGA.

IS.

EVIL.

You've Waited Long Enough

All you wonderful people need to know, EXACTLY what it is that I had to do for my final project.

I had to design and build a chair.  This means that I had to come up with a concept that I wanted to convey with my chair, figure out a way to convey the message in chair form and finally to build it.  We only had to build a model at least, but I went ahead and built a full-damn-sized chair.  It isn't the best in the world, but hell I am NOT a carpenter and The DH works with computers...power tools, not so much.  Not to mention that the moron at Home Depot cut my (supposedly) square seat, as a rectangle.  So, I made due with what I had (very little knowledge, some screws and pieces of wood, and a TON of fucking 'L' Brackets) and this is the final product....

'Dysfunction'
That is seriously my concept, I am not trying to just be funny.

At least the cats can get their fat asses up there, all is not lost.

If anyone wants to see the full project, you can see it HERE
Laugh at my sketches and I send 'Vinny' to kick your ass...I can't draw, suck it up.

FOR ALL THE MOTHERS OUT THERE

In honor of Mother's Day, I would like to invite you all to sit down, relax, and enjoy your day.  This should help;

And if all goes well, you can find a fellow mama to relax with you and sing songs of merriment.  Have a great Mother's Day and PUT THAT LAUNDRY DOWN!

SO FUCKING HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, yes I AM!
'Why, Turtlemama, are you so fucking happy?'...
Why, because my friends...SCHOOL IS JUST ABOUT DONE! DONE! DONE! D.O.N.E!!! HELL FIRE YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to finish my final project for Conceptual Design and then write a little paragraph for Art History and then write the final Essay and I'm done, my wonderful readers, DONE!

The summer is just about here and Turtlemama is so happy that she could SPIT! *splew*

I'm not going to give away details of my final project but I will be posting pictures of it, after it's completed and I've submitted it to my prof.  Oh, yeah...The Turtlemama is so happy right now, I think I'll go work on my little paragraph for Art History and then start that essay...the project is being completed this weekend...after a run to Home Depot for materials, oh yes the HOME DEPOT!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and I'll be back next week after all my work is done and we can celebrate the summer TOGETHER!

Yesterday Ain't Got Nothin' on Me.

My laptop has been reloaded.  I formatted the harddrive and reloaded XP and now it's like I have a brand new computer...YAY!

So, have you ever wondered what a Turtlemama does when her lifeline (her laptop) is formatting and installing?  Why, she does the only thing she knows how to do...she photographs all sorts of shit.

LIKE:

Alice telling me to 'Fuck off'.

Blackberry blossoms

Wild Honeysuckle

Sweet William

The Lone Mushroom

Little bitty clover flower thingy...I dunno, I know that you can eat the clovers and they taste like lemon.  That's it.  That's all I know, really!

Froggy Photoshoot

Last night The DH and I were down in the garage having an evening smoke when Sammie started chasing something under my car.  I stood there watching to see if it was a mouse or the neighbor's cat.  Just then a frog comes jumping out from under my car and right in front of me.  But this wasn't just any old toad or small frog, oh no, it was a BULLFROG...I'm talking big, meaty, er, I mean big, HUGE legs, yeah that's it.  Just a big assed frog.  So, being me, I went and grabbed my camera and this is all I have to show for it.  Enjoy as much as possible, florescent lighting and one helluva flash created some gnarly pictures, but you can get the gist.

He looks kinda small in this picture but he's smushed up against the wall and he's on a 2X4.

I am sorry to say that I can't make the disclaimer that no frogs were hurt during this shoot.  Well, I can say that he wasn't hurt during the shoot, although BEFORE the shoot....Well, Sammie cut him on his leg a little.  Nothing too bad, just a small cut that will heal, he wasn't even bleeding very badly.  Think of a froggy paper cut and you get the idea.  He was, however, freed on his own accord after the shoot.  Thanks, Mr. Frog, where ever you may be.

Evilness Ensues

This is evil.  VERY VERY EVIL! I'm pretty sure the only reason Fisher-Price still makes it, is because Grandparents send them hate mail DEMANDING them to make more, so that they may give them as gifts (of payback, you see).  EVIL EVIL EVIL Fisher-Price and Grandparents...oh so evil.

Also, evil.  They sell liquor at a DAMN FINE price, they have bottles of 2,000 Advil Liqui-Gels, and you can get 500 chickens-worth of hot wings, all at an incredible price.  I spend too much money here, the economy family pack of 54 rolls of Charmin is enough to send me over the edge, I'm tellin' ya, EVIL!

Ok, this entry was suppose to be longer than this but I suck really really badly and I need to go walk the dogs so since we're talking about evil shit go check this out....This has got to be the funniest, most offensive shit I've seen lately....I might just buy LT the potty head shirt!
T-SHIRT HELL