Shuttle Launch (updated with pics)

My husband's sisters are teachers and were a bit shocked when we home schooled but the boys and I loved it. They asked if we could start school earlier in the day so they could be finished sooner so we started at 8 a.m. instead of 9 and since we were usually finished right after lunch, otherwise known as home economics, they had the afternoon for ski lessons, golf lessons, swimming, pottery and music lessons. Somehow they did not think of those as learning, just fun.

 One boy went to university and got his B. Comm. and is now a branch manager of his firm and the other went to technical school and is lead technician for a company that installs and maintains telephone systems. They are both happily married with families, living in houses they own. I'd say we did something right. On the other hand I do know a few families who IMHO made a mess of it. Kids have no reading skills, no ambition and no self-discipline leading to no future.  It IS work but I would not trade those years for anything.

Regarding the movie, I've always wondered why it did not make a bigger hit. It had good acting, good plot, even good scenery...

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I think that at the end of the day good teachers know how to seize a moment and can make something educational and memorable, just like what you did Snowbound in how you taught your children about the Panama Canal.  I would have found a lesson like that to be so interesting.  

I'm in the process of working with the College of Business to develop a section of the public speaking course that I supervise and tie it to a business ethics class.  When I was meeting with my other half in COB, we were talking about taking a field trip to Chicago to visit the Chicago Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange to expose freshman to the ethical issues surrounding commodity trades.  Since we know that we will have to feed them afterwards, we wanted to find some way of making even that part educational, so we're trying to hook up with a culinary school in the city to do an etiquette luncheon with them before driving back to the university.  It was fun for us to sit down and plan this yesterday.