I'm thinking that the answer from Pomona wasn't much better:

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Anticipate what we would like to see.

Yeah, well-- beyond common sense that is almost the worst advice EVER.

There's an entire professional INDUSTRY built around that very thing, in case Poch hasn't noticed... and even the pros who make this their profession have enough trouble accomplishing that task over the long haul. Sheesh.

The entire purpose in homeschooling for most people is to garner a superior education, and to worry LESS about rubrics and benchmarks.

I thought that the second of those questions was, truthfully, a lot more thoughtful than any of the answers-- barring perhaps TX.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.