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In a message dated 1/22/2005 7:18:15 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
Earthmomma67@... writes:

Anyway, Zack asked me to buy a mini-notebook to write down his cheat codes.
If you are unfamiliar with them they consist of pressing certain buttons in
a
certain sequence - right, x, triangle, left, up, down, down, etc etc. There
are
usually 7-10 buttons in a sequence. For many of thse cheat codes,


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Once in a while I get an e-mail from some relative of an unschooler who
wants to somehow get me to agree that their daughter or sister is not unschooling
right, and that they're ruining their child and they want me to agree with
them that they should call the country or some such. It's happened half a
dozen times over the years, and inevitably I try to explain unschooling, and the
other person, figuring out I'm not going to express shock and try to help
them, gets crazy-hostile.

One was in the desperation phase and went off about how her nephew or
whatever was playing video games all the time, and when I said there were lots of
advantages, she said "NOT IF HE CHEATS." She had gotten wind of the idea of
"cheat codes" and saw it as cheating, as in cheating to get into West Point,
or cheating on a bar exam. Immoral, preventative of actual learning, evil
CHEATING.

I said they were programming codes to change the game, but she was sure then
I was in cahoots to help people be CHEATERS, that cheating was cheating and
I was obviously as immoral as her evil unschooling cheating relatives.

Heck of a rant.

But it reminded me of "Pigs is Pigs," a short story from 1906, which is here:

_http://www.ellisparkerbutler.info/epb/biblio.asp?id=2149_
(http://www.ellisparkerbutler.info/epb/biblio.asp?id=2149)

Sandra


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