zenmomma *

>>Is "radical unschooling" already the term?>>

That's the one I use to describe how we live. The "radical" qualifyer tips
them off that they're about to hear something different and out of the norm.

~Mary

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I use that too. Especially in the bay area, where, as Cindy pointed out,
*everyone* claims to be an unschooler. Tucson is actually better on that
score...

Dar

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:42:10 -0700 "zenmomma *" <zenmomma@...>
writes:
>
>
> >>Is "radical unschooling" already the term?>>
>
> That's the one I use to describe how we live. The "radical" qualifyer
tips
> them off that they're about to hear something different and out of the
norm.
>
> ~Mary
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--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., "zenmomma *" <zenmomma@h...>
wrote:
>
>
> >>Is "radical unschooling" already the term?>>
>
> That's the one I use to describe how we live. The "radical"
qualifyer tips
> them off that they're about to hear something different and out
of the norm.
>
> ~Mary
>
>


Ditto. When people-in-general ask, we're homeschoolers. If
another homeschooler asks, I just tell them right out, "we're
radical unschoolers". Very rarely do they ask (at first meeting,
lots as later) what I mean by that. <g>

Pam

Cindy

freeform@... wrote:
>
> I use that too. Especially in the bay area, where, as Cindy pointed out,
> *everyone* claims to be an unschooler. Tucson is actually better on that
> score...
>

I use it too. It's so people will understand that I'm serious about it!

--

Cindy Ferguson
crma@...

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When people-in-general ask, we're homeschoolers. If
another homeschooler asks, I just tell them right out, "we're
radical unschoolers".

I've gotten so tired of all that down here in the Bible Belt! When anyone
asks, I just tell them that my children are autodidacts and leave it it that.


Sometimes they ask what that is. Sometimes they know. Sometimes they stare
stupidly at me. Sometimes they think I must have BRILLIANT children who are
going to Harvard next fall (they're 14 and 5!).

I've gotten to where I don't care AT ALL to be called a "homeschooler". And
nobody knows what unschooling is (much less, radical!)---and it's too hard
to *quickly* explain in the grocery check-out lane (even to many
homeschoolers here).

The local homeschoolers know I'm the wierd "Ratmom" and "Doglady" (great
visuals, huh?) and the RADICAL unschooler who won't discuss how to get
someone's daughter to do her math!

My 5 year old knows to say that he's an autodidact and to tell them, " It
means I teach myself." Stops 'em dead every time!

Kelly


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Nancy Wooton

on 1/30/02 10:32 PM, kbcdlovejo@... at kbcdlovejo@... wrote:

> My 5 year old knows to say that he's an autodidact and to tell them, " It
> means I teach myself." Stops 'em dead every time!

I just thought of a T-shirt slogan to amaze and perplex:

"Autodidactism is not a crime; it's a religion." (Praise Dodd!)

I do call my kids "autodidactyls" occasionally, which sounds dinosaurian but
implies giving school the finger.

Nancy

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:48:29 -0800 Nancy Wooton <Felicitas@...>
writes:
> I do call my kids "autodidactyls" occasionally, which sounds
> dinosaurian but
> implies giving school the finger.

:-) Cacie used to have this whole comedy routine she'd do, with a
reporter asking the kid questions, and one was "Where do you go to
school?" and the reply was "Oh, I'm an autodidact." Then the reporter
gets all excited about dinosaurs here in our small town, and the kid is
trying to talk him out of it, parsing the word into Latin roots, and then
the reporter notes to the audience that this is a dinosaur from Latin,
and the kid tries to explain that Latin isn't a country, but there's
Latin America, but anyway she's not a dinosaur... it went on and on and
was quite funny, if I do say so myself... she's been heavily influenced
by Monty Python, I think.

Dar
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