Ali Lohan is 15 and quit school and the net is a buzz with opinions. Dina says Ali is home schooled. If you watched that reality show of theirs, you know Ali didn't like school, she didn't get along with some of the girls there and she refused to go anymore. Dina refuses to explain weather she's tutoring Ali or if she has a professional teacher. Dina just wants people to leave them alone, 'specially on Mothers Day. What....ever....Dina.*
You know what? Ali will figure it out, just like she's figured everything else out in her young life, without the help of her worthless mother. If Ali can read and likes reading, she will figure out a way to educate herself later. If she doesn't like to read and learn, and all she want to do is be famous, then school won't help her anyway. It's just a shame that the girl shows no real aptitude for singing or acting when her mother has pushed her into it. Ali will have to find a way to support herself eventually and it's all sad.
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I could type a lot about that home schooling thing. Some people really are good with it, like the Duggers. Some people do it just because they're too lazy to get up and get their children dressed and fed before 8 am. That's the truth, I've signed on as the teacher who oversees the home schooling twice. You have to have a certified teacher involved to make it legal. I quickly dumped the program I signed on for because the people were asinine. They'd turn in lesson plans I could tell were thrown together after they did nothing for days. Looking at bugs in your yard all day is not going to help your child read.
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Then there are people who home school because their kid won't go to school and they can't control them. I think Ali falls in this category. The Lohan's are white trash and you can't make a white trash kid go to school if they don't want to. I know because I was white trash and I hated school and wouldn't go, and I figured it all out eventually and so will Ali Lohan. Unless she's totally worthless, and only time will tell that.
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Can someone please school me on how to spell the word "weather" in that context. Spell check is no help and neither is Google.
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Home schooled? By her Mom? Does anyone else hear a toilet flushing?
Can someone please school me on how to spell the word "weather" in that context. Spell check is no help and neither is GoogleSo apparently you were homeschooled?
whether..thank you.
No, I wasn't. I just dropped out in 8th grade, went to work, and when I was 28 I decided to get a GED and go to college. I graduated with honors in three years, attending Summers and taking many hours. I have a BSE in Art Ed and I am lacking only 12 hours of credit for my BFA. So YOU being a smarty pants to me doesn't bother me one bit.
AND..I worked in a bar and raised a kid alone at the same time. What is it YOU do?
(different anonymous here) DD, I work in high tech with LOTS of people with advanced degrees. They have much more trouble with grammar than you do. And on the Lohan's.... I really feel badly for Lindsay and Ali. Lindsay had some talent, but is following the classic child star trajectory (straight down). Poor thing, ruined by her parents... Ali is heading down that path without the benefit of ever being a star. With parents like Michael and Dina, how could you possibly turn out right?
Dishy, I am high-fiving you! Way to go, going back to school and graduating from college as an adult!
I never have any problem with your grammar or spelling. My spelling is pretty good most of the time, but I lose it on whether, and other similar sorts of words. My grammar and sentence structure is terrible. I blame that partially on my many years of patient charting, as I am a nurse. Most often we do not use whole sentences, and use lots of abbreviations. I get the point across most of the time.
As for Ali, I have to feel sorry for someone who is so doomed by bad DNA and a complete lack of parenting, as well as such a poor example of a sister.
DD, I thought you read the cards for your bread? Do you also teach? What is your art form of choice--BFA's are really hard!
Also, Iowa must have stricter regs. I'm in WI and you don't need any oversight or lesson plans. You just fill out the paperwork with the school district saying your kid ain't being truant, he's homeschooled.
Disher - I'm currently working my way through college too [well I was until this week :( ] so I can relate.
I'm hoping to graduate in a few weeks so wish me luck!
I just wonder if Ali will make the right choice and get a college education. Surely she can't look at that sister of hers and think "Hmm...washed-up coke-whore - now there's a career with prospects!" She's just a child; she deserves more than that appalling slattern of a mother can be bothered to give her.
"Some people really are good with it, like the Duggers."
-Really-? The Duggars are the gold standard for home schooling excellence?
Puhleeze. You can't tell me they are edumacating their children properly with that Gothard (sp?) bullshizzle and that wacko religious-based curriculum.
J'Chelle only has a high-school diploma, and doesn't seem any great shakes in the brains department, so she's not really fit to teach these children everything that would make them end up with the same education that a public school offers.
Since my kid started K-garden at 4, I home schooled her in her fourth grade year. The school she was in sucked and I've been a full time student since '06. So first off, it's hard to find curriculum thats non-religion based. But I did. Next, all you have to do is sign a release paper,(Michigan) and the burden on the state is to prove you're NOT home schooling, but I kept really tight records just in case. School for me got more demanding, and our enthusiasm down the toilet. We stopped around February. She did well though, I had her reading at a 7th grade level and never had enough work to satisfy her. I gave her the choice the next year, re-do 4th and breeze, or go to 5th and work hard. She chose 4th (the proper grade for her age) and its been 2 years and she hasn't missed the honor roll yet. We got to spend a lot of time together, she learned to respect and trust my academic style, and hell, what kid wouldn't want 6 months off school? Her teachers told me to hold her back at 5 and do k-garden again for maturity reasons. I said hell no. There is an emotional difference in that one year, I should have listened. She is no longer the victim by age as I had seen in her first few years. I put her in K at 4 because there was no room in the daycare except the K-garden room. Live and learn. I'll never home school again, I love my kid, but I don't want to spend 24/7 with anyone. (human, that is)
And fuck, I bet Alli doesn't get carded at the bar!
About the Duggars, we only see a small part of their life, but the children seem very well spoken to me. Michelle speaks well herself, much better than her peer, Kate Gosselin.
Everything I've heard indicates Ali is dying to be famous-she always says she wants to be just like Lindsay- so I don't think Dina is pushing her into it. Nevertheless, Dina is still a crappy mother, and I think the "I'm homeschooling Ali!" thing is bull. I doubt she does any actual schooling with Ali at all.
I personally think homeschooling is a terrible idea. I was homeschooled because of a heart condition and it always made me feel really left out. I wish I'd been allowed to go to public school.
Some friends of mine home-school their three kids. There are a lot of resources here in Portland. They are years ahead of their peers scholastically. Also, there are the normal, fact-based- education, home-schoolers and the religious-nut home-schoolers. They all know who the others are and avoid each other accordingly.
The Lohan mom as an instructor? Are you kidding me? I think I hear that toilet flushing, too, anon 2:38.
wheth·er (hwr, w-)
conj.
1. Used in indirect questions to introduce one alternative: We should find out whether the museum is open. See Usage Notes at doubt, if.
2. Used to introduce alternative possibilities: Whether she wins or whether she loses, this is her last tournament.
3. Either: He passed the test, whether by skill or luck.
pron. Archaic
Which: "We came in full View of a great Island or Continent, (for we knew not whether)" Jonathan Swift.
Idiom:
whether or no
Regardless of circumstances.
I home educate my son........
notafan, really? Thats your funny shot at DD? What a moron.
I was homeschooled (read: taught myself from a book for a few months until actual teachers got involved) the second half of my freshman year, dropped out as a sophmore and now i am a 17 year old college freshman. As DD said, not all dropouts are losers and some drop out for the right reasons. However, it's sad that Ali is one of those that drop out for the wrong reasons and doesn't have the drive to make anything of herself after her "career" officailly fails. Lindsey's money can't last too long...
Congrats to all of you working your way through school. It's tough, but, I really loved learning about something I was interested in. It was a good time in my life. I am not of the opinion that everyone has to have a college degree, but, it made me feel better about myself, personally.
And as for the Duggers, their kids can read, is all I was saying. It's the most basic and important thing.
Oh, and I don't think I have a grammar problem..I have spelling problem. Dyslexia and speed reading are an odd combination. I just don't care about anyone's spelling on here, including mine.
3:43:00 PM, your sentance structure looks fine to me. Nurses and doctors and their abbreviations! LOL! I can't read my doctors hand writing to save my soul. I wonder how nurses learn THAT?
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