Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] how have unschoolers fared after growing up?
The Scanlons
<<And increasingly, both employers and colleges are
<<looking at a lot of things _besides_ a high-school sheepskin to gauge
<<applicants, as said sheepskins have plummeted in value.
Sheepskin? All I got was paper!
There are so many jobs out there that are "out of the box". People don't
think about them as jobs or careers, but they are what make the world go
'round. I knew a guy in college who did data entry. He made big bucks
doing this "girly work" and it's not a summer or part time job that I ever
would have thought about. College students get jobs at temp agencies or
they wait tables. Period. The world is so much bigger than that!!!!
I do think that homeschoolers are/have to be more creative in the job
search. Their lifestyle has been so different than the average kid's that
they won't settle for the daily grind. Even the most schoolish
homeschoolers have more flexibility and spontaneity in their lives than
school-raised kids. They come from families who buck the trends of society.
Sandy
<<looking at a lot of things _besides_ a high-school sheepskin to gauge
<<applicants, as said sheepskins have plummeted in value.
Sheepskin? All I got was paper!
There are so many jobs out there that are "out of the box". People don't
think about them as jobs or careers, but they are what make the world go
'round. I knew a guy in college who did data entry. He made big bucks
doing this "girly work" and it's not a summer or part time job that I ever
would have thought about. College students get jobs at temp agencies or
they wait tables. Period. The world is so much bigger than that!!!!
I do think that homeschoolers are/have to be more creative in the job
search. Their lifestyle has been so different than the average kid's that
they won't settle for the daily grind. Even the most schoolish
homeschoolers have more flexibility and spontaneity in their lives than
school-raised kids. They come from families who buck the trends of society.
Sandy
catherine aceto
I think it is useful, though, to point out that unschoolers can easily do the same corporate grind, shoudl they want to. I could easily have gotten into the same college I attended (small, not very selective, took people who left highschool without getting a diploma), if I had unschooled instead of going to public school. From there, I could have made the same high grades, gotten into the same excellent lawschool, gotten the same high-paying job, and left it when my daughter was born! just the same. Now -- whether I would have wanted to, if I had unschooled, I don't know. Maybe -- I was pretty entranced by how much I could get paid for doing my two favorite things (reading and arguing), so I suspect that I might have followed the same initital career path.
Frankly, given the combination of (1) the ivy league college recruiters say that they look for quirky bright kids who have found and follow their own interest, and (2) the number of professional women electing to stay home with their children, and my guess that (3) the next "trend" will be for them to unschool, I wonder (only party tongue-in-cheek) whether 25 years from now or so, it will be considered very hard for anyone not "individually educated" (but instead "mass educated" in a public or private school) to get into an ivy league college.
Which is *not* to say that I think ivy league or corporate jobs are superior -- because in fact I don't -- just that sometimes the discussion tends to surround how unschooling kids will follow an unschooling life by eschewing the modern rat race and I don't think that might sound to someone not unschooling as if the unschoolers choices were precluded from making the choice to go to a conventional college, grad school or job.
-Cat
Frankly, given the combination of (1) the ivy league college recruiters say that they look for quirky bright kids who have found and follow their own interest, and (2) the number of professional women electing to stay home with their children, and my guess that (3) the next "trend" will be for them to unschool, I wonder (only party tongue-in-cheek) whether 25 years from now or so, it will be considered very hard for anyone not "individually educated" (but instead "mass educated" in a public or private school) to get into an ivy league college.
Which is *not* to say that I think ivy league or corporate jobs are superior -- because in fact I don't -- just that sometimes the discussion tends to surround how unschooling kids will follow an unschooling life by eschewing the modern rat race and I don't think that might sound to someone not unschooling as if the unschoolers choices were precluded from making the choice to go to a conventional college, grad school or job.
-Cat
----- Original Message -----
From: The Scanlons
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] how have unschoolers fared after growing up?
<<And increasingly, both employers and colleges are
<<looking at a lot of things _besides_ a high-school sheepskin to gauge
<<applicants, as said sheepskins have plummeted in value.
Sheepskin? All I got was paper!
There are so many jobs out there that are "out of the box". People don't
think about them as jobs or careers, but they are what make the world go
'round. I knew a guy in college who did data entry. He made big bucks
doing this "girly work" and it's not a summer or part time job that I ever
would have thought about. College students get jobs at temp agencies or
they wait tables. Period. The world is so much bigger than that!!!!
I do think that homeschoolers are/have to be more creative in the job
search. Their lifestyle has been so different than the average kid's that
they won't settle for the daily grind. Even the most schoolish
homeschoolers have more flexibility and spontaneity in their lives than
school-raised kids. They come from families who buck the trends of society.
Sandy
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
"List Posting Policies" are provided in the files area of this group.
To unsubscribe from this send an email to:
[email protected]
Visit the Unschooling website and message boards: http://www.unschooling.com
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]