Automotive education for home schoolers from a motorsports perspective

Thinking Ive found the car for the kids. trying to scrape the cash for it up as we speak.

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/4428498088.html

Great little car. If you can find some cheap bottle caps to roll it on for a bit you could probably recoup most of your costs by selling those wheels.

Making flyers today, gonna drop some of them in some some mail boxes today. The rest I am gonna pass out at the drift exhibition this coming saturday.

Damn, just finished printing 200 flyers to have some to pass out at the drift meet and car show tomorrow and on a deskjet 1000 it took 2 hours, ridiculous

You are learning a valuable lesson...

Homeschooling is a lot like building a $20XX Challenge car. Labor is free!

Just an FYI I dropped you a message and an email about your project.

Just today got set up to accept donations in person through my phone. Awesomeness. AND the president of Charlotte Muscle Car Club of the Carolinas has contacted me back to learn more about the kids program.

Also ordered a compressor out of pocket today, 5 horse peak, 28 gallon 125 psi max to go in the garage to teach the kids about air tools

Do ya think Id get in trouble for selling drinks for charity at the autox tomorrow? Thinking of loading up a cooler with canned sodas and selling them for $1 a piece with all proceeds going to the auto education fund. think I'll get my hand slapped by organizers? I'd hate to get off on the wrong foot with them

ryanty22 wrote: Do ya think Id get in trouble for selling drinks for charity at the autox tomorrow? Thinking of loading up a cooler with canned sodas and selling them for $1 a piece with all proceeds going to the auto education fund. think I'll get my hand slapped by organizers? I'd hate to get off on the wrong foot with them

I doubt it. The local college around here regularly sells their bodies for $15-$20 in donations to volunteer for your work group. They also were selling refreshments at the National Tour. If they try to give you grief just say "Think of the children!".

ryanty22 wrote: Do ya think Id get in trouble for selling drinks for charity at the autox tomorrow? Thinking of loading up a cooler with canned sodas and selling them for $1 a piece with all proceeds going to the auto education fund. think I'll get my hand slapped by organizers? I'd hate to get off on the wrong foot with them

You may actually pull in more by giving it away and "taking donations".

Ryan:

I know you are new at homeschooling. May I offer a suggestion?

Sometimes it is not what you teach, but how you teach it. We learned a long time ago that alternative subjects and methods sometimes don't translate into something valuable for future schooling.

We have learned how to present most subjects with some form of plan, lesson plan, documentation, and measurable goals. It should be able to fit on a transcript.

Not that I think the paperwork is very important. I loathe that stuff.

But later, if the student is ever transferring to a public school (for example High School), schools don't have any idea how to process more creative approaches. They think your kid is a moron, and that you are enabling them to be lazy, unsocialized, and disconnected. They don't give a crap about your story, or his "portfolio". They want to see his transcript. That's all.

A project like this can be a perfect opportunity to combat some of the "Lone Ranger" aspects of homeschooling, but only if you can describe it in "schooly" terms.

Transcripts are hard to reconstruct when your kid is a junior in high school. They are easy to build if you do it as you go. You could easily have 4 or 5 different subjects on a transcript that grow out of something like this (we do).

We believe in creative, outside-the-box critical thinking, and like to teach our kids in as many different interesting ways as possible (we don't use packaged curricula). But we maintain a balance with documenting it like a "real school" at the same time.

SVreX wrote: Ryan: I know you are new at homeschooling. May I offer a suggestion? Sometimes it is not what you teach, but how you teach it. We learned a long time ago that alternative subjects and methods sometimes don't translate into something valuable for future schooling. We have learned how to present most subjects with some form of plan, lesson plan, documentation, and measurable goals. It should be able to fit on a transcript. Not that I think the paperwork is very important. I loathe that stuff. But later, if the student is ever transferring to a public school (for example High School), schools don't have any idea how to process more creative approaches. They think your kid is a moron, and that you are enabling them to be lazy, unsocialized, and disconnected. They don't give a crap about your story, or his "portfolio". They want to see his transcript. That's all. A project like this can be a perfect opportunity to combat some of the "Lone Ranger" aspects of homeschooling, but only if you can describe it in "schooly" terms. Transcripts are hard to reconstruct when your kid is a junior in high school. They are easy to build if you do it as you go. You could easily have 4 or 5 different subjects on a transcript that grow out of something like this (we do). We believe in creative, outside-the-box critical thinking, and like to teach our kids in as many different interesting ways as possible (we don't use packaged curricula). But we maintain a balance with documenting it like a "real school" at the same time.

Thank you, and you are right as rain about building on things and keeping things regulated a little bit like school. Thats what I am trying to do. Figuring out the transcripts is slow going but I am getting it.

Would you like me to send you some templates/ examples ?

SVreX wrote: Would you like me to send you some templates/ examples ?

Sure any help is welcome. I can guarantee its better than what I've come up with

Freshly created facebook page for the project. It will do until we can eventually create an actual website.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/309889859166308/

Donated. Apologies for the wait.

Thank you so much. I went out pounding the pavement all afternoon yesterday looking for sponsorships hopefully I got through to some people

two things: 1. if theres anything i can do to help, let me know. run my own buisness doing hot rods and customs for the past 15 years, and im local over in albemarle. 2. what is this charlotte muscle car club you speak of? havent heard of that.

i cannot contribute financially, but am willing to help out however else i can.

Its a group based off of Meetup.com and I got the name wrong its modern musclecar club of the carolinas www.meetup.com/modernmusclenc