Jean McTigue

how about misunderstood unschooler : I was always drawing in class too then just find my place just before I had to read
Now if the class was assigned a book to read I could never read as fast as the teacher wanted so I was never prepaired for the test. So I learned that before the test I would tell the teacher there were somethings I wasn't "clear" about and that would start a discussion and answer all that was needed for the test or the teacher would have q and a sometime before the test and thats where I got all my info from.
So not every one is as interested or geared for reading but just about everyone who wants to "figures" out school in there own way before it is time to graduate

jean

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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:18:37 -0000
From: "sam"
Subject: Re: Misunderstanding Unschooling?...

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
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I'd always already seen the photos and
> read the book anyway, but I would pretend it was new an interesting
for a
> couple of seconds, and then go back to my "real" book).
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I would always draw in class. If you are writing, you must be taking
notes, which I also did. If we were reading as a class, I would read
ahead, and I was usually good at finding my place when I was called to
read. Other than homework, I couldn't be bothered to read the text
books outside of school. However, I've always been an avid reader.
I'd happily read ahead in class, but never outside of school. At home
it was all Louis L'Amour and Hardy Boys. I think I learned more from
Louis L'Amour than I did from school.
This story just came to me. We were assigned one year to read The
Scarlet Letter. I didn't read the book till after the test and passed
with a pretty good grade. During in class discussion I would try to
answer questions, and if I was patient, could actually do a good job
just from listening to the general discussion of the book. By the
time we were supposed to have finished and then took the test, I was
actually interested enough to read it and enjoyed it.






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Darlene Navarre

When I was growing up I hated to read and never read a book all the way through until I was 17 or 18 yr. Even in college I would get other people to tell me about the book or just skim through it reading only what I had too unless it was an autobiography or something along those lines or something I thought looked interesting. Looking back on it now I know it was because I was always forced to read what I did not want to read. Now I can read what I want and I love to read. I now read a book a week or more. I can relate to kids who do not want to read because they have too read what they dont want to.

Peace and love,
Darlene

PS: I am currently reading Sanda Dodd's new book "Moving a Puddle" and it is a joy to read and how wonderful it is that she let us into her family's lifes. I am so curious about the way other people live and what others lives are about. Some may call me nosey I believe I just have a desire to know what goes on in other peoples real worlds beyond my own.


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:18:37 -0000
From: "sam"
Subject: Re: Misunderstanding Unschooling?...

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
I'd always already seen the photos and
> read the book anyway, but I would pretend it was new an interesting
for a
> couple of seconds, and then go back to my "real" book).
>


I would always draw in class. If you are writing, you must be taking
notes, which I also did. If we were reading as a class, I would read
ahead, and I was usually good at finding my place when I was called to
read. Other than homework, I couldn't be bothered to read the text
books outside of school. However, I've always been an avid reader.
I'd happily read ahead in class, but never outside of school. At home
it was all Louis L'Amour and Hardy Boys. I think I learned more from
Louis L'Amour than I did from school.
This story just came to me. We were assigned one year to read The
Scarlet Letter. I didn't read the book till after the test and passed
with a pretty good grade. During in class discussion I would try to
answer questions, and if I was patient, could actually do a good job
just from listening to the general discussion of the book. By the
time we were supposed to have finished and then took the test, I was
actually interested enough to read it and enjoyed it.






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