Solar for the Amish
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@Mik Neat article. Thanks for sharing.
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I admit to ignorance about the Amish. Closest thing we have are Mennonites, and not too many of them.
@Jolly said in Solar for the Amish:
I admit to ignorance about the Amish. Closest thing we have are Mennonites, and not too many of them.
I went to school with quite a few mennonite kids. Polite, law-abiding and conscientious students, all of 'em. One of them was valedictorian. (Suffice to say my derelict ass didn't make close friends with too many, but looking back on it they were very good people.) The Amish kids I believe were all home schooled.
Growing up, you had to pass through about 3 Amish communities just to get to our road, which was past the county maintenance line. If the school bus got behind a buggy at the wrong place, it meant a later arrival and much less time for early morning chit-chat.
They ran the tables at the farmer's markets, and their stores always had incredible pies, bread and quilts.
They seem different from the Florida Amish communities. I'm not entirely convinced the latter group aren't just Amish to pull off some sort of tax dodge.
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@Jolly said in Solar for the Amish:
I admit to ignorance about the Amish. Closest thing we have are Mennonites, and not too many of them.
I went to school with quite a few mennonite kids. Polite, law-abiding and conscientious students, all of 'em. One of them was valedictorian. (Suffice to say my derelict ass didn't make close friends with too many, but looking back on it they were very good people.) The Amish kids I believe were all home schooled.
Growing up, you had to pass through about 3 Amish communities just to get to our road, which was past the county maintenance line. If the school bus got behind a buggy at the wrong place, it meant a later arrival and much less time for early morning chit-chat.
They ran the tables at the farmer's markets, and their stores always had incredible pies, bread and quilts.
They seem different from the Florida Amish communities. I'm not entirely convinced the latter group aren't just Amish to pull off some sort of tax dodge.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Solar for the Amish:
The Amish kids I believe were all home schooled
It is interesting that I believe the Amish won a supreme court vote that allows them to stop schooling their kids at the end of 8th grade.
If there a big enough community of Amish, they will send them to a one-room school house, like this one in north Ohio. There are about 325 Amish Parochial Schools, with about 9,500 students.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Solar for the Amish:
The Amish kids I believe were all home schooled
It is interesting that I believe the Amish won a supreme court vote that allows them to stop schooling their kids at the end of 8th grade.
If there a big enough community of Amish, they will send them to a one-room school house, like this one in north Ohio. There are about 325 Amish Parochial Schools, with about 9,500 students.
@taiwan_girl said in Solar for the Amish:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Solar for the Amish:
The Amish kids I believe were all home schooled
If there a big enough community of Amish, they will send them to a one-room school house, like this one in north Ohio.
Yes, thank you, I know that. The kids I grew up around had the option to go to this one, which I passed every drive we took into town. My dad taught astronomy there.
A lot of Amish families still opted for homeschooling. My dad went there on occasion, too, if the parents reached out.
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@taiwan_girl said in Solar for the Amish:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Solar for the Amish:
The Amish kids I believe were all home schooled
If there a big enough community of Amish, they will send them to a one-room school house, like this one in north Ohio.
Yes, thank you, I know that. The kids I grew up around had the option to go to this one, which I passed every drive we took into town. My dad taught astronomy there.
A lot of Amish families still opted for homeschooling. My dad went there on occasion, too, if the parents reached out.
@Aqua-Letifer Very cool that your Dad was well thought of to be asked to do that.
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@Aqua-Letifer Very cool that your Dad was well thought of to be asked to do that.
@taiwan_girl said in Solar for the Amish:
@Aqua-Letifer Very cool that your Dad was well thought of to be asked to do that.
Eh, it was his job. He taught everybody. And he often said the Amish and Mennonite kids were about ten times better behaved than the miscreants he taught in public school.
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@taiwan_girl said in Solar for the Amish:
@Aqua-Letifer Very cool that your Dad was well thought of to be asked to do that.
Eh, it was his job. He taught everybody. And he often said the Amish and Mennonite kids were about ten times better behaved than the miscreants he taught in public school.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Solar for the Amish:
he often said the Amish and Mennonite kids were about ten times better behaved than the miscreants he taught in public school.
The hell you say, LOL.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Solar for the Amish:
he often said the Amish and Mennonite kids were about ten times better behaved than the miscreants he taught in public school.
The hell you say, LOL.
@George-K said in Solar for the Amish:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Solar for the Amish:
he often said the Amish and Mennonite kids were about ten times better behaved than the miscreants he taught in public school.
The hell you say, LOL.
No shit, it's what he said!
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I admit to ignorance about the Amish. Closest thing we have are Mennonites, and not too many of them.
@Jolly said in Solar for the Amish:
I admit to ignorance about the Amish. Closest thing we have are Mennonites, and not too many of them.
You'd get along with them, I think. They are extremely hard working and very knowledgeable about their tradecrafts. If the SHTF, I'm calling Jolly or the Amish to help me build a house in the woods.
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