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In a message dated 12/02/2001 6:37:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


> >Do you see many homeschoolers saying, "Well my kid have very little in the
> >way of writing, math or test-taking ability, but they play soccer and dance
> >and they understand ALL their little friends' homelives and interpersonal
> >problems, they think about the nature of the universe every day and they
> >know
> >where all the birds' nests in our yard are" ?
>
>
> Maybe not so many school-at-homers, but I certainly hear this kind of
> understanding among unschoolers. And, of course, school-at-homers are just
> buying into the whole school mentality.
>
> >
> >Maybe some do. <g>
>
> Count me in. :o)
>

We do. My 12 year old son Julian sings like an angel, and "thinks" musically,
can use words in ways that make you see (and talk to) squirrels coming off
his fuzzy head, and knows exactly what to do whenever anyone around him is
sad (and is a fabulous friend to people who have literally never had one).

Kathryn


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