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Once again tried a headless pi setup, once again failed. Maybe I should just buy a starter kit

A comic. A man steps in shit, and exclaims such. He checks his foot, and we see that he has racism written on the sole of his shoe.

@sim Ah, okay. I suppose the HSLDA would not apply then, that's an American organization.

Most Christian curriculums for math (like Math U See) doesn't have any ideological overtones at all, but a lot of other subjects like History and English do, so I would look out for that.

@sim I'm not 100% sure about free resources, save Khan Academy (which is quite excellent, I'd still recommend it as a supplement to other curriculum).

The big thing I really wanted but was never able to have is a stable social group/life. Making sure kids can go out and interact with others and have real friends is very important! Homeschool Co-ops are a wonderful way for homeschooled kids of different families to interact with each other. Once a week, the families meet together (oftentimes in a church building) and some of the parents teach classes to the various children. The children can then congregate afterwards.

If your kids make friends, then it would also be a good thing to let them hang out at their friends' houses from time to time for playdates too.

@sim IDK if you are religious (if so, not all of these will be appealing) but some commonly used curriculum in the homeschool community is Abeka, Math U See, Teaching Textbooks, and Sonlight.

There's also the HSLDA, which helps people make sure they can homeschool legally.

Learning about homeschooling right now.
"If you want your kids to speak english then you gotta speak english and teach them how to speak english."
In some ways, it would have been good to learn how to teach children before homeschooling. But that is a bit hard to do.
Suppose I can relax about what form the education takes when comparing how children turn out in life.

I made a lot of progress over the past nine months or so, and nearly slipped up again and lost a whole lot of it. Thankfully, I caught myself before things got to bad and am doing far better than I was yesterday.

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