Saje

This is a forum where people communicate with each other. Obviously, this is not one of your strengths, but that doesn't mean that every post needs to be backed up by 100 percent verifiable facts. People get their opinions and ideas from life experiences. That doesn't mean they don't have value. I've had plenty of life experience on the subject by growing up in a family of educators, teaching ESL myself and getting seven years of post-secondary education. Thanks for stopping by and showing your colours yet again.

I don't have one favourite place but I do have a list! I know Western Canada better so here it is: BC Kincolith Hazelton Saltspring Island Chemanius Victoria Gastown Vancouver Steveston, Richmond, BC Alberta Lake Louise Drumheller Edmonton Jasper Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump (really stuck with me) Spruce Meadows, Calgary (I'm a horse girl)

I don't know if that would be sustainable in the long run. What about when the American dollar has more value and prices go up? Also, I think Costco only builds in places with a 50,000 population and they don't build two in one area.

That would be nice! We live in a small town so the resources are really limited. I was thinking middle school years anyway. I lived in Tokyo for 1.5 years and in Chile for a year so I know the value of exploring other cultures and learning languages. (Although my language skills are limited!) Here, we don't even have language options in school other than French classes. We don't even have French immersion. My dad's got his EDD and my mom is a teacher. I taught ESL for years so we aren't exactly uneducated or on our own. It looks like Ontario doesn't have the Distributed Learning Schools that BC does. Or maybe they go by a different name.

I don't think I'd need approval. There is a difference between distance education and homeschooling. People refer to both as 'homeschooling' but, at least in BC, there are two definitions. http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/dist_learning/dl_vs_homeschool.htm This is a program that I'm looking at (but there are many) http://www.desk.bc.ca/

I love how someone on the group mused about how much money Costco was losing because it always so packed the locals were shopping elsewhere. ... Um ... huh?

I understand the OP is probably a troll but I'd like to add my thoughts. There is no 'best' way to educate people. It all depends on the teachers, parents, school system and individual child. Everyone has different needs and learns in different ways. My kids will go to public school, but I'd love to take them out of school for a year and travel. We'd do "distance education," which follows provincial curriculum. How would this be worse than a child getting a few minutes of one-on-one attention during the day due to packed classrooms and exhausted teachers? Not to mention there is plenty of " no hate, bigotry, or intolerance being taught at public schools." That is where most bullying starts. There are intolerant teachers. Children also spread the hate/bigotry/intolerance that they learn at home.