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In a message dated 5/18/02 6:20:36 AM, ElissaJC@... writes:

<< Oohh! Sandra!!!
BAN HIM!!! Have No Mercy!!!! >>

Joyce beat me to it. <g>

I was spending the morning as I have spent many Saturday mornings of
late--taking Holly to "school." She's taking classes at John Robert Powers,
which is a kind of finishing school and acting thang tending toward modelling
and TV commercials.

It is weird, and nothing I would have wanted when I was a kid, but a few
months ago we were cleaning the side yard and Holly walked out and said to
me, "Mom, I would like to be in a TV commercial."

I said I didn't know anything about that sort of thing, but I'd keep my ear
out.

I was working in that very same part of the yard one day when we got a call
saying someone had recommended Holly for an audition. It turned out two
families had done so--both homeschooling families she knows, with kids she
has played make-believe and dress-up with. So they knew her. <g>

I figured it was scammish and too weird, but her dad was a frustrated
actor/performer type of guy whose parents never supported him much. And on
the other hand, Holly likes auditions. She's gotten a couple of callbacks
for musicals, and tries out for things she doesn't even really want to be in
just because she enjoys the auditioning. (Weird, I know--like she craves the
competition I'm trying to avoid for her, at least she enjoys it in short and
optional bursts.)

So this and that leads to her being in classes for a year, as of March.

And she has had incidents with two teachers who thought she should be reading
better. But this morning I talked to the #2, young, mother of an 18 month
old baby, teacher who had made Holly cry last week. So I arranged for her to
have the packet I had made up for three others there, and she read it. It
was a two page letter (which I might have posted here, I put most of it
somewhere in public, here or unschooling.com maybe), and a copy of the
inverview Emily Subler did with me in HEM a few years back, and copies of a
couple of recent columns about Holly.

So the teacher was EFFUSIVELY apologetic, enthusiastic, wanted to know more
about it for her son, etc. Cool!

So anyway, I was out proselytizing while Joyce was bravely keeping this list
clean for unschoolers.

Sandra

Kate Green

> which is a kind of finishing school and acting thang tending toward
modelling
> and TV commercials.
>
My boys all ended up doing this when we were in Colorado. The oldest took
the classes and was in TV commercials and various print ads. The other two
were recruited from being on set with their brother and ended up doing
almost as much work without taking the classes (well the youngest was only
18 months so it would have been tricky).
One funny shoot was for one of the largest sunday school curriculum
producers. All 3 of mine were figured prominently throughout with the very
schooly christian material. Pretty interesting for pagan/UU unschoolers:)
But you don't get to know what it's going to be before the shoot.

It works in your favor as homeschooling because you have the flexiblity to
make shoots during the day when other kids can't. They also often want moms.

Mine still have very good savings accounts from it and good memories.
Watching all the things that goes into making a commercial is interesting.

Kate

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In a message dated 5/18/02 10:38:08 PM, karegree@... writes:

<< My boys all ended up doing this when we were in Colorado. The oldest took
the classes and was in TV commercials and various print ads. >>

Holly's really enjoying the structure of it, the homework, the dress code.

<<Mine still have very good savings accounts from it and good memories.
Watching all the things that goes into making a commercial is interesting.>>

Keith says he doesn't care if Holly never gets a single job. He figures at
the very least it will make job interviews easier for her. I agree. It's a
fun human-factors lab for her too. She's always been really analytical about
how and why people are. She's unschooling more psychology than many people
get in college. One of the most fun aspects of my relationship with Holly is
getting to be there for her questions and observations about why people do or
say or respond certain ways. This is a goldmine for her!! <g>

Sandra