Pam Hartley

I try to visit the unschooling.com message boards (though I'm sporadic about
it). I am not currently subscribed to the unschooling.com mailing list, so I
don't know what the climate is there.

I would not like to write off the AlwaysLearning list. Off and on, we still
have pretty good discussions here. But by all means re-subscribe to
unschooling.com's mailing list and if it is a good place to be, I'd be
interested in knowing it!

Bringing up a nice interesting issue here would also work for me. ;)

Pam

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From: Dan Vilter <dvilter@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Questions about this list and Unschoolingdotcom
Date: Sun, Apr 28, 2002, 12:16 PM


Are the core posters from this list now posting at Unschoolingdotcom?

What is your (collective) opinion on the environment at Unschoolingdotcom?

If it is becoming a better place to be than it was, and writings there have
a greater exposure to more people, what do you think is going to become of
AlwaysLearning?



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Fetteroll

on 4/28/02 3:32 PM, Pam Hartley at pamhartley@... wrote:

> But by all means re-subscribe to
> unschooling.com's mailing list and if it is a good place to be, I'd be
> interested in knowing it!

Well of course it is because I'm the moderator over there now ;-)

(But don't expect perfection. There's a lot of strong personalities.)

And I do think it's just a natural lull. Even the busiest lists that you can
barely keep up with can hit quiet times.

I don't see the two lists in competition with each other, though they do
draw from some of the same people. AlwaysLearning has a different feel I
think because it tends to draw more long time unschoolers than newbies.

> Bringing up a nice interesting issue here would also work for me. ;)

Don't anybody look to me. My topics always die a sad muddled death.

Joyce

Kate Green

> I don't see the two lists in competition with each other, though they do
> draw from some of the same people. AlwaysLearning has a different feel I
> think because it tends to draw more long time unschoolers than newbies.
>
And bringing up chatting about unschooling and long timers. I have to say
that sometimes I get tired of talking about (gasp)
unschooling/homeschooling. That seems silly to say when I am on a list
about it. I don't mean chatting about expanding existing things or how to
handle things that can crop up with people who share your own basic
beliefs. What I mean is so often having to explain what you do to people
who are skeptical. Support groups and people new to hs always want to talk
to those who have been in this for a few years. I know that's
understandable and I can remember appreciating the people who talked to me
but just sometimes I get tired of having to defend or provide rationale for
the way we live.

Of course when you nurse an older kid you get used to explanations:)

Kate


>> Bringing up a nice interesting issue here would also work for me. ;)
>
> Don't anybody look to me. My topics always die a sad muddled death.
>
> Joyce
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