On 2008-01-09 17:17:11 -0500, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
said:

Drop the kid off at boarding school .. and leave.

The little **** can sit in algebra class while mom and dad are off cruising.

Oh, Gawd! You've definitely demonstrated your incompetence.

Real cruising kids demonstrate far more intelligence. At a minimum,
they know where they are and where they want to be.

Jere Lull wrote in news:2008011001022875249-
jerelull@maccom:

Real cruising kids demonstrate far more intelligence. At a minimum,
they know where they are and where they want to be.



I met a family who sold it all and spent a year in Taiwan as their Globe
Yacht was being custom built...way back in the 70's. They spent some
time here in Charleston, and like I did for Lydia and Skip but without so
much boatwork, I played guide and taxi driver.

Their two sons were taking high school by correspondence course from the
University of Nebraska in a special program the university had for mobile
families. Upon successful completion, their acceptance into the
university was automatic, a real deal for the boys.

They were both way ahead of their "grade" for their age and would
graduate "high school" about 2 years ahead of "normal" for American kids.
They were also world-class sailors who had completed the same courses
towards their Masters licenses as their father.

It was amusing about the sailing school. When they got to California
from Taiwan via Hawaii, there was a nasty letter from the school
threatening to drop them from the class as the school hadn't heard from
them in a timely manner. I got to see the follow up letter before they
left after they sent the school their "excuse" for being late.....that
they were successfully navigating and sailing across the Pacific Ocean
and couldn't find a proper post office in the appointed time...(c; The
school's letter was MOST apologetic...and encouraging them to continue.

I'll never forget the beautiful hand-carved pair of DRAGONS done in
polished teak that went from port to starboard over the forward main
cabin hatch that adorned the forward bulkhead. The work throughout the
boat was just beautiful. She was around 60-65' as I remember and quite
self-sufficient for world travel.

Larry
--
As the price of Monopoly money rises, at some point it will equal
Federal Reserve Private Bank fake banknotes in value!

The kids in my old neighborhood did about the same thing...

They left high school to go cruising .. but first they stopped off at Paris
Island to visit the Marine Corp.

They cruised here and there, stopping off every now and then to kill people.

Once they finished their tour, no one would hire them, they didn't have a
college education.

The tour company, aka-Uncle Sam's Cruising and Sailing LLC, didn't seem to
give a crap
about them.

Many of them got into the pharmacy business, some actually became alcohol
tasters.

Those businesses take their toll on a guy.

Now? They live on relief, hang out on street corners, talk about the good
old days of cruising.

Pardon me, if I don't give a rat's ass whether some rich **** 15 year old
gets to go hang out
on mommy and daddy's yacht.

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"Larry" wrote in message
...
Jere Lull wrote in news:2008011001022875249-
jerelull@maccom:

Real cruising kids demonstrate far more intelligence. At a minimum,
they know where they are and where they want to be.



I met a family who sold it all and spent a year in Taiwan as their Globe
Yacht was being custom built...way back in the 70's. They spent some
time here in Charleston, and like I did for Lydia and Skip but without so
much boatwork, I played guide and taxi driver.

Their two sons were taking high school by correspondence course from the
University of Nebraska in a special program the university had for mobile
families. Upon successful completion, their acceptance into the
university was automatic, a real deal for the boys.

They were both way ahead of their "grade" for their age and would
graduate "high school" about 2 years ahead of "normal" for American kids.
They were also world-class sailors who had completed the same courses
towards their Masters licenses as their father.

It was amusing about the sailing school. When they got to California
from Taiwan via Hawaii, there was a nasty letter from the school
threatening to drop them from the class as the school hadn't heard from
them in a timely manner. I got to see the follow up letter before they
left after they sent the school their "excuse" for being late.....that
they were successfully navigating and sailing across the Pacific Ocean
and couldn't find a proper post office in the appointed time...(c; The
school's letter was MOST apologetic...and encouraging them to continue.

I'll never forget the beautiful hand-carved pair of DRAGONS done in
polished teak that went from port to starboard over the forward main
cabin hatch that adorned the forward bulkhead. The work throughout the
boat was just beautiful. She was around 60-65' as I remember and quite
self-sufficient for world travel.

Larry
--
As the price of Monopoly money rises, at some point it will equal
Federal Reserve Private Bank fake banknotes in value!

"Sir Thomas of Cannondale" wrote in
news:ZKohj.3904$K%6.3803@trndny04:

Pardon me, if I don't give a rat's ass whether some rich **** 15 year
old gets to go hang out
on mommy and daddy's yacht.



Wow...are you in the wrong newsgroup.....

Larry
--
As the price of Monopoly money rises, at some point it will equal
Federal Reserve Private Bank fake banknotes in value!

Pardon me, if I don't give a rat's ass whether some rich **** 15 year old
gets to go hang out on mommy and daddy's yacht.

Besides being a complete ass, you've obviously not followed any of the Skip
threads, nor met or even laid eyes on them or their boat. Had you even a
sliver of actual knowlege of the situation you wouldn't be stupid enough to
make such remarks.

But apparently you're just a gasbag with nothing but insults to share.
Jerk.

As for the experience, oy, that's asking for trouble. Even with already
being homeschooled you're asking far too much out a 15 year old to go along
with that sort of plan. As has been suggested you'd do better to send the
child off to school instead. But even then you'd be asking her to abandon
everything going on in her life. At 15 that's not going to be a pleasant
departure. You do well to seriously rethink the plan or be entirely sure
the girl wants to go along with it. That's not an age where that's
likely...

Bill,, the overly sensitive guy ..

I have been following Captain Lydia and Crewmate Skip for ?? long time.
Before the shipwreck.

I never met them in person, then again, I doubt many of the posters here
have.

They seem like swell folks.

This in no way changes my opinion. If mommy and daddy want to go cruising,
great.
Leave the 15 year old in school.




"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
news
Pardon me, if I don't give a rat's ass whether some rich **** 15 year old
gets to go hang out on mommy and daddy's yacht.

Besides being a complete ass, you've obviously not followed any of the
Skip threads, nor met or even laid eyes on them or their boat. Had you
even a sliver of actual knowlege of the situation you wouldn't be stupid
enough to make such remarks.

But apparently you're just a gasbag with nothing but insults to share.
Jerk.

As for the experience, oy, that's asking for trouble. Even with already
being homeschooled you're asking far too much out a 15 year old to go
along with that sort of plan. As has been suggested you'd do better to
send the child off to school instead. But even then you'd be asking her
to abandon everything going on in her life. At 15 that's not going to be
a pleasant departure. You do well to seriously rethink the plan or be
entirely sure the girl wants to go along with it. That's not an age where
that's likely...

On Jan 10, 2:14*pm, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
wrote:

This in no way changes my opinion. *If mommy and daddy want to go cruising,
great.
Leave the 15 year old in school.

"Bill Kearney"

Gee, seems as though all here for the first time have a consensous....

Ya, the 15 yo daughte needs to be sharpening her flirting and dating
skills. Kinda hard to do that on a boat. That is unless ya dont miind
the little **** working her magic on some of the old
crusiers............. Eeeewwww! Trust me when I say 15 yo girls
practice on dads. I guess they think its safe. For example, was on my
boat with three 15-16 yo girls they all start to pack out to go
swimming except one. She holds back and says Bob would you put the sun
block on my back... I say okay then she turns her back to me and drops
her top !?!?!!?!?

I have met about 12-15 homschooled teens. They are really great at:
read the book... take the test.... read the book.... take the test but
each lacked the other stuff like application, analysis, synthisis,
evaluation skills.

I like that one post who said use U of Nebraska curiculum cause the
Uof N give auto admission to thoes students. Now that seems a bit
fishy...... Buy our stuff and ya get in free??

Bob

Jere Lull wrote:
On 2008-01-09 17:17:11 -0500, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
said:

Drop the kid off at boarding school .. and leave.

The little **** can sit in algebra class while mom and dad are off
cruising.

Oh, Gawd! You've definitely demonstrated your incompetence.

Real cruising kids demonstrate far more intelligence. At a minimum, they
know where they are and where they want to be.


What about the social skills they learn when they are in a school with
other students. You can't survive alone in the world you need to know
how to interact with others.

BAR wrote:
Jere Lull wrote:

On 2008-01-09 17:17:11 -0500, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
said:

Drop the kid off at boarding school .. and leave.

The little **** can sit in algebra class while mom and dad are off
cruising.


Oh, Gawd! You've definitely demonstrated your incompetence.

Real cruising kids demonstrate far more intelligence. At a minimum,
they know where they are and where they want to be.


What about the social skills they learn when they are in a school with
other students. You can't survive alone in the world you need to know
how to interact with others.


No loss at all.
The times have changed, and social skills along with them.

Hi, Skip (and Lydia),

Glad y'all are doing well.

I love newsgroups. You asked for responses by people who had
experience homeschooling and cruising. How many of those did you get,
as opposed to pontification by dickwads who know ****-all about ****-
all? Socialization! Jeezis Christ on Kaopectate, BAR, you're a ****ing
idiot. And, Bob, if you wanna defend the value of schooling, perhaps
you should lean your native ****ing tongue a bit better and lead us by
example, speaking of "knowing what you're doing."

Frank (*un*schooling for the last 5 or so years and I'll match my
kids' SAT scores, schoolish knowledge, and *especially* their ability
to function in the real world against any schooled kid)

P.S. Our older daughter was 13 when we moved aboard. She was not
enthused but she was willing and somewhat interested. I agree that
it's a tough thing for a teenager to break from everything she knows
to head into the unknown when it's not her own dream.