Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Education

  • How to kill a great book

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    Last year for his birthday, a friend gave my son a movie theater gift card. My son’s school has kids from this side of the hill and the other side, two different counties with two different area codes. It was a great gift. Unfortunately, we don’t have that chain in our county. So it sat…

  • Gifted misunderstandings

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    A friend forwarded me a link to this article. I think she thought that I wasn’t busy enough this weekend, and that instead of cleaning the toilets and vacuuming (which is what I’m supposed to be doing right now), I should write a passioned response to yet another blogger who doesn’t get it! She was…

  • Outschool, our way

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    Well, I thought I was so darn clever. I decided that what my daughter and I are doing this year should be called “outschooling” instead of homeschooling. In this world, what’s the point of trying to be original? The original homeschoolers got to that term first. But my homeschooling world bears little resemblance to the…

  • Swine flu facts

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    Is your school going completely nuts about the H1N1 (swine) flu yet? No? Just wait… OK, it’s true that my son’s school has not yet broke out in swine-flu hives, but my daughter’s homeschool program does seem to have the rumblings of a controversy, so I thought I’d write about it and hopefully point a…

  • Ohlone Day, a local treasure…once you find it!

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    I wasn’t sure what to expect of Ohlone Day. I’d heard lots of people say nice things about it, but the publicity for it was lackluster, and the event-day signage was non-existent. So there we were, eager six-year-old and I, trying to find the parking lot that the salesperson in the store at Henry Cowell…