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  The Latest Trend in NW England: Homeschooling Your Children

  by pale.emperor in

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  i dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.

  but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.

  in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.

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  FYI

  Watchtower 15 August 1997, page 21 paragraph 13
  

  What about those who have chosen to educate their children at home? While many have done a commendable job, some have found the task more difficult than they imagined, and their children have suffered. So if you are considering home schooling, be sure to count the cost, realistically assessing if you have both the skills and the self-discipline needed to follow through

  
  Awake 8 April 1993, pages 9 to 12
  

  Home Schooling—Is It for You?
  Even ardent supporters of home education admit that home schooling is sometimes done in an ineffective or even irresponsible manner. Indeed, every year there are some home-school efforts that fail, leaving children ill-prepared to face future academic challenges.
  Further, parents should not deceive themselves into thinking that home schooling alone will protect their children from the immoral influences found in the public schools. There is no way for anyone to be completely shielded from contact with the world. Many factors beyond formal schooling shape a child’s thinking, including parental example, associations, entertainment, and both personal and family Bible study. Without diligent training in all these areas, no educational system will prove successful in raising Christian children.
  True, some parents have felt that home schooling has contributed to the spiritual progress of their children. But it should not be forgotten that many Christian youths who are attending public schools are making fine spiritual progress as well. In many cases, parents have had good results in working closely with their local school district to ensure that their children get a quality education.
  
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  The Latest Trend in NW England: Homeschooling Your Children

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.

  but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.

  in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.

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  pale.emperor: Going to mainstream school is, in my opinion, a must.

  pale.emperor: I dont think home schooling in itself is bad.
  

  hmmm
  
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  Chairman of the St Petersburg-based Administrative Centre of JWs issues press release - Forum 18

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to the latest forum 18 article, this is what happened in russia on march 15:.

  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2265.

  with immediate effect, a 15 march suspension order forbids the administrative centre and all its local religious organisations from "using state and municipal news media, organising and conducting assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, processions, picketing, and other mass actions or public events, and using bank deposits, with the exception of use for making payments connected with their economic activity, compensating for losses (damages) caused by their actions, and paying taxes, fees, or fines, and making payments based on labour contracts" .

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  Secondly, it was discussed that the JWs know that this initiative will do drastic things to the Russian postal service. In fact, jwtalk confirms that. The JWs are all excited over the fact that the Russian postal service is going to get slammed and that their letters have the potential to disrupt that service.

  Yes, thanks for pointing out that JWs aren't exactly the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree.

  Because as you and I know, it ain't Christmas!! haha!!

  All the letters are going to only a small number of addresses - logistically that does mean more work, but it's relatively straight forward - just lots of bags of post being delivered to just one drop-off point.

  And that's the very opposite to Christmas - when lots of letters (cards) are being delivered, not to a single address, but too all differant addresses.

  100,000 letters to one address = one van full of post bags = time / postman/woman easy.

  100,000 letters to 100,000 different addresses = very very time consuming.
  

  So thanks for highlighting that - it's a combination of what a lack of education and not celebrating Christmas does.....
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  Chairman of the St Petersburg-based Administrative Centre of JWs issues press release - Forum 18

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to the latest forum 18 article, this is what happened in russia on march 15:.

  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2265.

  with immediate effect, a 15 march suspension order forbids the administrative centre and all its local religious organisations from "using state and municipal news media, organising and conducting assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, processions, picketing, and other mass actions or public events, and using bank deposits, with the exception of use for making payments connected with their economic activity, compensating for losses (damages) caused by their actions, and paying taxes, fees, or fines, and making payments based on labour contracts" .

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  Firstly, one poster had mentioned how this campaign is going to prove to the Russian authorities that the JWs are a group of people that will follow, unquestioningly, whatever they are told to do by their American leaders.

  Thank you for that interesting observation.

  If you had read my previous post - you could have fairly quickly extrapolated from the what happened with Greece in 1986 that there maybe up to a million letters (that's being very generous and optimistic for the WT)

  Which actually only goes to prove that 7-in-8 JW 'disobey' what their American leaders told them to do. Hmmm...
  
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  Chairman of the St Petersburg-based Administrative Centre of JWs issues press release - Forum 18

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to the latest forum 18 article, this is what happened in russia on march 15:.

  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2265.

  with immediate effect, a 15 march suspension order forbids the administrative centre and all its local religious organisations from "using state and municipal news media, organising and conducting assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, processions, picketing, and other mass actions or public events, and using bank deposits, with the exception of use for making payments connected with their economic activity, compensating for losses (damages) caused by their actions, and paying taxes, fees, or fines, and making payments based on labour contracts" .

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  Elvis Presley - Return To Sender [Video]

  Thank you for reminding us all - lest we forget....

  The music of Eviis Presley was, of course, completely BANNED in Russia in the past.
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  NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haha!

  yes folks!

  it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.

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  ZAPPA-ESQUE: pic snipped

  Really? You think the publishers are having so much (spiritual) food now in the new format CLAM meeting they are getting spiritually fat on it??

  I'm sorry you feel like that - I believe the point most of us are making is actually the opposite (and that's even if we don't believe in WT spirituality) - There's way less 'spiritual' food at the meetings now, and its mostly sweet/sugar stuff rather than actual meat like breaded chicken thighs and wings in your picture)
  
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  NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haha!

  yes folks!

  it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.

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  Will this be distributed at the KH?

  I don't believe WT will be printing these new 'Reference CLAM' sheets because of the page size they are:
  

  Magazine size is 7.00 x 9.00 inches (WT/A mags, brochures, workbook etc)

  These new 'Reference' sheet are 8.27 x 11.69 inches (ie A4)

  I suspect there will be a brief letter to all congreagtions to be read announcing this new provision - with an elders only PS at the end telling them to print out copies for any that don't have access to a computer/printer.
  
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  NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haha!

  yes folks!

  it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.

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  darkspilver

  I think if they allow people to look the scriptures electronically, why not.

  I don't think the scriptures (and looking them up) is the issue here - any non-tablet owning publisher with a hard copy bible should be able to relatively easily look them up.

  No, IMHO the issue for the non-table owning publishers is the 'problem' / 'difficulty' of looking up the other references in the back issues of the Watchtower and the Insight books etc.
  

  I can imagine those publishers just 'giving up' and just relying on hearing the answers from the tablet-owning publishers.

  It's a catch-22 - the meeting has been dumbed down to a 'painting-by-numbers' exercise with none of your 'own' research, everything is listed, point-by-point.

  Because JW Library on the tablets is actually 'so-good' in having it all available at your fingertips it has divided congregations into the haves and the have-nots of tablet owning - this is the GB trying to re-address the balance.
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  NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haha!

  yes folks!

  it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.

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  darkspilver

  haha! Yes folks! Really!

  It's an eight page printout from the CD-ROM of the scriptures and WT reference for use during the midweek CLAM meeting.

  'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'
  

  Has a backlash from 'non-tablet' users forced the GB's hand? - thought this kinda thing was discouraged??

  Direct link for PDF: https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_mwb/76/mwbr_E_201706.pdf

  But will the GB do the same for the Study WT?.... if not, why not?

  
  
  
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  The Latest Trend in NW England: Homeschooling Your Children

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.

  but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.

  in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.

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  darkspilver

  BTTT. What employer would want. Home Schooled person as an employee, what have they as social skills that would help them contribute and fit in.

  It's needs to be done properly - and it's expensive to do!
  

  As previously discussed here:
  

  Home Schooling is trendy - was featured last year in a big article in the glossy Sunday Times magazine - Sunday 24 July 2016 print edition - click here

  https://www.enjoyeducation.co.uk

  http://www.educationotherwise.org

  http://www.williamclarence.com

  Also The Times newspaper - Friday 3 February 2017 - Page 11
  

  Press play if you’re too cool for school

  From Ryan Gosling to JRR Tolkien via Beatrix Potter....

  An investigation by The Times last year found that home-schooling had soared in the past five years, fuelled by parents missing out on places at the best schools or shunning their culture of excessive testing.

  Figures obtained through freedom of information requests showed a 45 per cent increase in home-education in five years, with almost 33,000 children now taught at home.
  

  Experts said that this could be the tip of the iceberg because the actual number was unknown. Not one local authority of 80 that responded could say exactly how many home-schooled children were in their area.

  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/press-play-if-you-re-too-cool-for-school-kqjgjh0fm?shareToken=3b91a739b302babc25576a304f1a75cc