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>>Here the AEP are programs by the district to entice new homeschooler
and suck them back into the system were they (the district) have the
control. And then to tell the bold face lie that you are still a
homeschooler. <<

If you'd made that choice it would be your choice. If you didn't choose to
participate, then you didn't. Either way, it wouldn't mean someone else
should tell you that you're not a real homeschooler, especially in the rest
of the homeschooling world where MANY people are enrolled (voluntarily) in
controlling programs - many of them private - and are still considered part
of the homeschooling community. People voluntarily sign up for all kinds of
correspondence schools, for example, and still consider themselves part of
the homeschooling community. People buy the full Calvert Curriculum with
teacher support and do just what the teacher tells them to do and send their
kids papers in to be graded, but they still consider themselves part of the
homeschooling community. Shall we start telling them that they aren't real
homeschoolers since they've given up so much control (and they PAY to give up
that control so they don't even have the excuse of getting free materials).

What effect does telling people that they aren't real homeschoolers have on
those who choose the public school programs? Does it mean that the public
schools are going to shut down their programs and stop their nefarious
activities?

No, but it isolates those people in those programs even more than the public
schools try to do already. It makes them leave open email lists when they
have to hear, yet again, that they're not real homeschoolers. The more
isolated they are, the LESS aware they will be of the importance of
maintaining the option to homeschool independently and that is
counterproductive.

To tell people that are in certain programs that they aren't real
homeschoolers is hurtful for no good reason and it doesn't do anything at all
to reduce the possible negative impacts of the programs themselves.

--pam


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This is a Sandra-in-New-Mexico response, not a Pam-in-California or anyone
else.

If someone here is enrolled in The Family School and says "we're
homeschooling," I will say right then and there, "No, you're in an
alternative school program." They are not only required to be in school
LOTS, but the parents are required to attend weekly meetings on perpetual
threat of the family being dropped from the program. ("We have a waiting
list, so we only want dedicated families.") There's no "home" left. The
families have much less autonomy and privacy than if the kids were in a
regular all-day program.

If someone here is doing Calvert by mail, they can do all their work naked in
the middle of a Saturday night if they want to, and they can be at home. And
the parents can help them as much as they want. And they can do the work in
whatever order they want, and can speed up, slow down, personalize, take a
month off, go on vacation and take the work with them or not... Calvert has
been practically the definition of "homeschooling" since before John Holt
believed in homeschooling. I remember seeing the ads in the back of National
Geographic when I was a kid and imagining it to be only for shut-in,
bedridden or deformed children, or missionary families in Zimbabwe or up some
tributary of the Amazon.

Sandra

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<<. I remember seeing the ads in the back of National
Geographic when I was a kid and imagining it to be only for shut-in,
bedridden or deformed children, or missionary families in Zimbabwe or up
some
tributary of the Amazon.

Sandra>>

If I was drinking coffee, I'd have spewed! I believe this is exactly what my
Father thinks of homeschoolers! (Incidentally, He is very supportive but he
thinks I'm weird)
Elissa, who will soon be singing
Yippee - Kai - Yay!
-----Original Message-----
From: SandraDodd@... <SandraDodd@...>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] re: school-based homeschooling


>This is a Sandra-in-New-Mexico response, not a Pam-in-California or anyone
>else.
>
>If someone here is enrolled in The Family School and says "we're
>homeschooling," I will say right then and there, "No, you're in an
>alternative school program." They are not only required to be in school
>LOTS, but the parents are required to attend weekly meetings on perpetual
>threat of the family being dropped from the program. ("We have a waiting
>list, so we only want dedicated families.") There's no "home" left. The
>families have much less autonomy and privacy than if the kids were in a
>regular all-day program.
>
>If someone here is doing Calvert by mail, they can do all their work naked
in
>the middle of a Saturday night if they want to, and they can be at home.
And
>the parents can help them as much as they want. And they can do the work
in
>whatever order they want, and can speed up, slow down, personalize, take a
>month off, go on vacation and take the work with them or not... Calvert
has
>been practically the definition of "homeschooling" since before John Holt
>believed in homeschooling. I remember seeing the ads in the back of
National
>Geographic when I was a kid and imagining it to be only for shut-in,
>bedridden or deformed children, or missionary families in Zimbabwe or up
some
>tributary of the Amazon.
>
>Sandra
>
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