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> Thank you! I love hearing this stuff! Did you and/or Shawn ever
> consider unschooling college?
>
>
Back then we sure didn't -- we read a little about it in "Growing Without
Schooling". When t the kids got older they started in Community College - and
went from there. Shawn's upper division schooling was in Clarion PA - where
there was a fabulous dive coach (Shawn was the national champion on both the 1
and 3 meter boards for his two years there). I think the kids decided that
regular college offered more of what they wanted by the time they were that age.
(Shawn in acting, Donika in music and dance, and Chris in business) Shawn
didn't start college til he was 21, and found out it was cheaper to keep his
health insurance by becoming a full time student - and discovered he liked school.

The kids don't do the go at 18 - finish straight thro --

My daughter now 21, started taking college classes as a high school student
at comm. college. She's still there taking loads of dance classes each
semester, with a little general ed. She feels safe there, and loves it - so what's
the hurry to get finished?

Knowing their own pace and their own needs I believe comes from having been
at home all those years, spending time with themselves and learning who they
are and what they want to do.

Right now Shawn is working several summer jobs - he told me he will consider
himself a success if he can support himself by acting and not have several
side jobs. I have visions of Tom Cruise success - but he laughes!!

Connie
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Diana Tashjian

Well, in a way, it seems like they *are* unschooling college!

Diana Tashjian
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Barb Eaton

Connie,
Interesting this can up now and I'm reading it today. ;-) Did any of
your kids have to have a GED to get their college degree? (Not com. college)
I ask because my SIL was here last night from GA and stated that students
have to have a GED or High School deploma to actually get there pieces on
paper, I mean degree. She said that you can go all you wnat but you won't
get your deploma with out a GED, etc. She see that as a holy grail I guess.
Her daughter is 10 and has had 5 yrs of french, bla bla bla.
The saddest part is the statement that daughter made. Mom had asked her
if she would be there to push around her wheelchair in her old age. Daughter
stated she'd be too busy with 2 jobs and a life of her own. :-(
Connie thanks for sharing this with us.


Barb E
"The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his
anxious parents think he should live, nor the life according to the purpose
of the educator who thinks he knows what is best. All of this interference
and guidance on the part of adults only produces a generation of robots."
A S Neill

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In a message dated 6/11/04 6:08:58 AM, homemama@... writes:

<< my SIL was here last night from GA and stated that students
have to have a GED or High School deploma to actually get there pieces on
paper, I mean degree. She said that you can go all you wnat but you won't
get your deploma with out a GED, etc. >>

Is she talking about state college in Georgia?

I say this to anyone with young children who's putting an ounce of energy
into worrying about college: Things will change by the time your child is
college age.

But if she's making a claim that you don't trust to be true, just calmly ask
her where she heard or read it, and ask her to show you. I've never heard
it. It might be true, or it might not be (I'd bet "not"), but it could change
anyway.

Sandra

Diane

Georgia College & State University doesn't list this requirement on
their website at
http://catalog.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Catalog/Under/SubHeadingDetail/77 , but it
certainly is interesting to find the various diploma options in Georgia:
http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/~mceachern/freshman/grad_requirements.asp

Ths one: http://www.gpc.edu/~acadaff/cat/Admission_Cats.html looks like
it's heading in that direction, though. But, as Sandra points out,
unless your child is over 16 and interested, it really doesn't matter.
Things change.

:-) Diane


SandraDodd@... wrote:

>In a message dated 6/11/04 6:08:58 AM, homemama@... writes:
>
><< my SIL was here last night from GA and stated that students
>have to have a GED or High School deploma to actually get there pieces on
>paper, I mean degree. She said that you can go all you wnat but you won't
>get your deploma with out a GED, etc. >>
>
>Is she talking about state college in Georgia?
>
>I say this to anyone with young children who's putting an ounce of energy
>into worrying about college: Things will change by the time your child is
>college age.
>
>But if she's making a claim that you don't trust to be true, just calmly ask
>her where she heard or read it, and ask her to show you. I've never heard
>it. It might be true, or it might not be (I'd bet "not"), but it could change
>anyway.
>
>Sandra
>

Barb Eaton

Thank you everyone for your replies. :-)
I was just curious if any of you had heard or experienced this. I found
it pretty far fetched to go to college for the whole term and finish all
those credits to get a degree. Then they tell you they aren't giving you
your earned sheepskin without a GED. I thought it was laughable but curious.
Sandra I wasn't able to ask because she left early the next morning for
home. I rarely think of the right thing to say at the time. It's always
later or the next day. LOL!
I do know now how much she disagrees with our choice. I didn't really
know until now and it's been 8 yrs. She still doesn't know what she is
talking about. She has just run into some really unfortunite cases.

Thanks again,

Barb E
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who
have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver, Chemist and Educator