Unschooled not Schooled
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**I can only imagine what it would have been like to have an Unschooled kid
in one of my classes.**
Probably a lot like having those returning students, without the depth of
life experience (though more than most of the schooled students).
Melissa (always unschooled) has been taking community college classes off and
on for three years or so, part time. (She's 20 now). Without exception, the
people she connects with and make friends with are the older students, almost
always adult women many years older than she is.
The absolute biggest difference between her and her schooled age mates in
those classes is what I noted before - they don't really expect things to make
sense. Some sigh and roll their eyes when she asks questions because she doesn't
understand something - not because they do (the sighers are often barely
passing) but because it keeps them from getting out early. Whatever they're there
for, it isn't the learning, they don't expect that. It's baffling to her.
Deborah in IL
in one of my classes.**
Probably a lot like having those returning students, without the depth of
life experience (though more than most of the schooled students).
Melissa (always unschooled) has been taking community college classes off and
on for three years or so, part time. (She's 20 now). Without exception, the
people she connects with and make friends with are the older students, almost
always adult women many years older than she is.
The absolute biggest difference between her and her schooled age mates in
those classes is what I noted before - they don't really expect things to make
sense. Some sigh and roll their eyes when she asks questions because she doesn't
understand something - not because they do (the sighers are often barely
passing) but because it keeps them from getting out early. Whatever they're there
for, it isn't the learning, they don't expect that. It's baffling to her.
Deborah in IL
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In a message dated 4/1/2005 2:36:57 PM Mountain Standard Time,
DACunefare@... writes:
Melissa (always unschooled) has been taking community college classes off
and
on for three years or so, part time. (She's 20 now). Without exception, the
people she connects with and make friends with are the older students,
almost
always adult women many years older than she is.
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Kirby is having the odd experience of being in classes with people he knew
already. Unschoolers. <G> Liam McClure, whose mom was one of my first LLL
leaders when Kirby was a baby, is in one of his classes. Liam's twin sister,
Renee, has class in another building and they all go to lunch afterwards.
Someone in his math class is also in another class, but he's young too. They
and two others of their crowd (these others are 19-21, to Kirby's 18) are
planning to take at least one class together next semester. Of those five, four
are unschooled (Brett from 3rd grade, Renee went to school part of one year,
7th grade or so, out of curiosity) and the fifth was schooled at home by a
very forgetful and disorganized mom.
Among the gamers and anime club, Kirby's had lots of older friends. Maybe
when he was little they just thought he was cute, or he was available more
easily than kids in school, or maybe he just actually TALKED to them like they
were human instead of ducking and dodging because they were adults and he
wasn't. He was offered rides and meals and participation in lots of things
other kids his age didn't have.
Just a little more info-dump.
Sandra
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DACunefare@... writes:
Melissa (always unschooled) has been taking community college classes off
and
on for three years or so, part time. (She's 20 now). Without exception, the
people she connects with and make friends with are the older students,
almost
always adult women many years older than she is.
-------------
Kirby is having the odd experience of being in classes with people he knew
already. Unschoolers. <G> Liam McClure, whose mom was one of my first LLL
leaders when Kirby was a baby, is in one of his classes. Liam's twin sister,
Renee, has class in another building and they all go to lunch afterwards.
Someone in his math class is also in another class, but he's young too. They
and two others of their crowd (these others are 19-21, to Kirby's 18) are
planning to take at least one class together next semester. Of those five, four
are unschooled (Brett from 3rd grade, Renee went to school part of one year,
7th grade or so, out of curiosity) and the fifth was schooled at home by a
very forgetful and disorganized mom.
Among the gamers and anime club, Kirby's had lots of older friends. Maybe
when he was little they just thought he was cute, or he was available more
easily than kids in school, or maybe he just actually TALKED to them like they
were human instead of ducking and dodging because they were adults and he
wasn't. He was offered rides and meals and participation in lots of things
other kids his age didn't have.
Just a little more info-dump.
Sandra
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