Nanci Kuykendall

>What's important to one person might be exactly
>everything school teaches (because the person's
>intelligences are mathematical and verbal, and the
>person's personality is conservative and
>conforming).
>Sandra Dodd

I was thinking the same thing, as in defining what's
important is totally subjective and so forth. The
words you used above however put me in mind of my
sister in law, who loved school, is always preplexed
and defensive of my beliefs regarding institutional
shooling, has a teaching degree (although she is
currently at home raising her two youngest toddlers)
and is often singing the praises of her older
children's academic achievments. Her oldest daughter
is in a special school for the "gifted."

My sister in law skipped 2 grades in school and
graduated with top honors from highschool. I can see
how someone who fits the system so completely and is
naturally conservative and conforming to authroities
could be genuinely shocked and confused by a stance
like mine, so diametrically opposed to that same
system.

Nanci K.