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In a message dated 11/4/03 10:16:21 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


> But TV is the tool people use to achieve that state, not the cause of it.
> Unschooled kids don't need to watch TV to tune out the noise of the day. And
> if they do need that, then there's something wrong in the unschooling
> environment that needs fixed! Unschooled kids watch TV because they want to
> pay attention to a particular show not because they want to tune something
> out.
>
> Joyce
>
>

Thank you, Joyce!

I was getting a little worried <g> with this thread, because 15 yo ds watches
quite a bit of TV, really. Someone said the other day that tuning out is a
sign of a problem (and you repeated it here). That is what worried me. Back
when he was in school, he used the TV to tune out on a disturbingly regular
basis. Now, after 2 years at home, he's started watching it more again.

But I'm looking at what he's watching, and it's *stimulating* TV, for the
most part. Not *tuning out* TV. There really is a difference. He's getting a
lot of history, physics, mechanical engineering, biology, etc. with his TV
time. And some pure entertainment, and I don't see anything wrong with that,
either. Science fiction shows and anime.

Laura B.


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