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I opened my English book this morning with much trepidation because lately they have had this thing about making me write.  I swear the people who created this curriculum sat around one day and thought up ways to make the last three booklets you do as time-consuming as possible.  “First” they chuckled dryly, “We will make them read an inspirational Christian book filled with non-believable characters whose near perfectness makes you gag more often then cheer.  Then, if that’s not enough to consume their worthless teenage days, we’ll make them answer five pages of questions just to make sure they actually read the book.  And as the cherry on the top, we’ll put a nice little one-liner at the beginning of the questions that makes even grown men cringe in retrospect, ‘Answer questions in complete sentences.’ Bwahahahaha…”

Seriously that’s what they do.  I have the minutes to the meeting somewhere here…

And besides the reading you have to write and write and write.  Now, this may sound weird coming from a girl who has a blog but there’s a marked difference between writing because you want and writing because to have to.  Not even that, because I write all the time because I have to, and it’s fun!  No, I think it’s more…pointless writing.

Okay, all you homeschool moms out there, I’m fighting a losing battle I really am not interested in fighting…So, don’t go call my mom and tell her to heap on the assignments.  Ultimately it’s easier just to do the assignments as they are.  Do you hear me students out there who complain about their strict moms and whine about the work load or whatever?  DO THE ASSIGNMENT!  It’s works every time, I swear!  I’ve found in my many trials and tribulations, that, twenty-four hours is actually a very long time.  And for all my drama at the beginning if I had done the assignment each day it would have taken twenty minutes, tops. Really, that was just me being dramatic.  It’s fun to do that sometimes, but don’t make it a regular habit, it gets old really fast.

Summary:  I really don’t like the work I’m doing in English right now, but I just wasted thirty minutes writing this post. And those were thirty minutes during which I could have finished my assignment for the day.  Ah, the irony of being a homeschooled student. =)

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