Nichoel

HAHAH Andrea!!
I am on that list and I caught that too, and I almost brought it up but I didnt want to 'piss' off the entire list (albeit I might anyway; it's pretty obvious the list is a bit younger than my daughter..)


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----- Original Message -----
From: aelanmichael@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:07 AM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Re: Welcome new members (and question)


In a message dated 1/26/02 3:49:02 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


> -No Joanna, it was my doing. Inadvertantly.
> I'm glad there are a few other voices so I'm not alone. I questioned
> a person that said something about if her child "got behind" she
> would do something about it.
> Sheesh.
> When I called that view into question, against the views of
> unschooling, it started the whole mud slinging battle again.
> What an idiot I am to think that someone over there could be
> questioned and actually give some thoughtful answers without feeling
> attacked.
> I can't believe the fallout from my post.
> I should know better. But like you I can not stomache the thought
> of "do whatever works for your family"
> Why even have Unschooling as a concept if we're just goint to tell
> everyone that line of BS.
> It's not right that they've ousted the clearest voice on the planet
> about unschooling (Yes, Sandra)
> and the voices that have taken over are giving lousy advice to people.
> Ren
>


Would any of you hardcore unschoolers who live in WA
want to join the WAUNSCHOOLERS list and tell me if
they are *really* unschoolers? They are talking about
curriculum books and asking the kids to do a page or
two in a book every day and trying to figure out ways
to teach math,,,,"so the kids don't fall behind", etc,,,

I joined that list since I live in WA and wanted to learn all
I can about unschooling,,,,but the list seems more of a
place to plan and do field trips with other homeschoolers
than a place to learn about unschooling. They have set
times to go to the children's museum, set times to go to
a thing in Renton called FLIGHT (FLIGHT means Families
Learning In God's Honor Together. It is a very large
homeschooling co-op comprising some 180+ families
representing more than 30 churches/faiths etc. They
go there, separate the kids by age and then send them
off to classrooms to do age appropriate activities),,,etc
It all seems very scheduled and not very *unschool* like
to me. One newbie to the group got slammed on the
list for questioning FLIGHT and saying it didn't sound
like unschooling.

The owner of the list even said that she thinks society
would crumble to pieces without public school! I wouldn't
be questioning any of this if their name was
WAHomeschoolers or WAFieldTripsforHomeschoolers,
but their name is WAUNSCHOOLERS! (so it seems kind
of misleading).

On the other hand, I'm still new to all this, so maybe
I'm not informed enough about unschooling to make
comments about something not seeming very
unschooling-like.

Andrea Kim :-)
Mommy to two sweeties!
Laura (2/16/96) & Allison (8/31/99)
Kent, WA,,,,,,,,soon to be Seattle!








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