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I've never been to a convention. A woman from our local unschooling list
went to one a few years ago and ended up walking out when the speaker
said there was no point in educating girls too much because then they
wouldn't want to serve God or their husbands.
We few brave Montana unschoolers are planning to go to the convention in
June here, to listen to John Taylor Gatto, and I'm embarrassed to say,
or maybe not, that his was the only name I recognized. I don't know
what to expect regarding the rest of the convention. Wish I had
something really good to look forward to. I have this horrible feeling
I'll spend the money and be sorry I did.

Deb L

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In a message dated 3/8/02 1:54:37 PM, ddzimlew@... writes:

<< I don't know
what to expect regarding the rest of the convention. Wish I had
something really good to look forward to. I have this horrible feeling
I'll spend the money and be sorry I did. >>

That's too much dread to overcome! If you look forward to it, you'll at
least break even.

Unless it's a really Christian conference, I know what to expect in
general--there will be experienced homeschoolers who are all calm and you can
borrow some of their energy, and some newcomers who are afraid, and you could
cheer them up, and lots of cool stuff to look at in the vendor room (and some
scary stuff to make you glad you're an unschooler), and as the weekend goes
on you'll know some people and be having a good time.

That's my experience. It's probably about the same at a Christian
conference, except starts with a prayer and more of the speeches would be by
men who were saying America needed to get back to its Christian purpose, and
the family was the model of the nation and of the church, and men were the
head of the family.

Sandra

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In a message dated 3/8/02 4:37:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ElissaJC@... writes:


> I might spend the money taking my daughter to a feminist radical type music
> festival in Michigan this summer

Michfest??? :)))

~Ginny


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In our area the christian homeschool community adn teh inclusive secular
side don't mix too much. I tend to not go to any HS conferences that are
sponsored by a christian group. I'm not christian for one, and I don't
school at home for the other. Nothing for me there. The unschooling
conference coming up is the first one I'll be attending out of my local
area. I may not even go to the local one this year, I might spend the money
taking my daughter to a feminist radical type music festival in Michigan
this summer. We can walk around topless and paint flowers on our breasts.
Sounds like more fun and She'll get much more out of that than looking at
various curriculums in the junior college cafeteria!
Elissa Cleaveland (who probably won't send pictures of the above to the
website - sorry.)
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein

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I've never been, are you talking about the Michigan womyns music festival?
Have you been? Are you going?
Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein

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In a message dated 3/8/02 4:47:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ElissaJC@... writes:


> I've never been, are you talking about the Michigan womyns music festival?
> Have you been? Are you going?
>

Yes! I've never been myself, but I've heard so much about it. I know women
who go every year. I've heard it's something every woman should attend at
least once. I would like to go, I think, but I'm such not the camper. <g>

~Ginny


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