[email protected]

In a message dated 1/19/2005 12:32:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Parents who plan to homeschool their young children, and parents interested
in supporting child-led learning outside of school hours
Hmmm... I agree that it seems to miss the whole point. Unschooling after
school. Sigh. This is starting to wear on me.
Elissa
Mystik Hill Farm
Kearneysville, WV


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Robyn Coburn

<<<<parents interested in supporting child-led learning outside of school
hours>>>

I agree that this phrase made me cringe a bit also. I have read somewhere -
specifically stated in some of the Unschooling lists' descriptions and/or
guidelines (or was it unschooling.com?) - that Unschooling is *not* defined
as this idea.

The broader question of whether taking a course leads to not taking courses,
makes me think of Kelly's essay on the Three Stages of Unschooling, only 180
degrees opposite.

I guess if they paid their money and then were given a list of resources and
books, and invited to read all they wanted at their own speed, they might
get irritated and say "but what about the assessments? How will I know when
I am qualified to begin Unschooling? How do I graduate from the course? What
are the standards for completion?"

This is somewhat along the lines of some of the books, like "Unschooling
Handbook" - great for absolute beginners, but if you hang around here long
enough you get it all for free and mostly from the same writers.

I would consider, for *me*, a course like that might have become a detour in
my personal deschooling process, a safety net that was actually more like a
spider's web.

Robyn L. Coburn

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