Cindy

Tia Leschke wrote:
>
> I think you'd find that there are two distinct grassroots groups involved
> in the homeschooling movement, the people who homeschool for religious
> reasons or because the schools are too liberal, and the group that John
> Holt started helping to homeschool when he got fed up with trying to change
> the schools.
> Tia
>
There's also a group around here (in the Santa Cruz Mountains) who were
homeschooling long before John Holt did much! They were homeschooling
in the 70s - I think most of them would have been considered hippies.

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Cindy Ferguson
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In a message dated 2/24/02 5:35:06 PM, crma@... writes:

<< There's also a group around here (in the Santa Cruz Mountains) who were
homeschooling long before John Holt did much! They were homeschooling
in the 70s - I think most of them would have been considered hippies. >>

Santa Fe too.

I know he knew some of the people at the Santa Fe Community School, which I
think pre-dates "Teach your Own" and such. And he taught at the Rocky
Mountain School a bit, where my friend Peyton Dew went to high school. She
lived on a ranch in Wyoming or Montana or somewhere (I forget), wintered in
Santa Fe (because the ranch would get totally socked in), and her dad was
rich. And when she got high school age, she went for at least a couple of
years to live in a barn and learn with a small group of other rich teens
while they (teachers and students together) built other buildings. I don't
know what became of the school. That was late1960's; she was older than I am
by a bit. So John Holt learned from some of the radical hippie schools out
here in New Mexico and Colorado.

I have several friends who went to the Santa Fe Community School in the
1970's. They were required to show up twice a week, I think, but didn't have
to stay. They got credit for community service and projects and verbal
reports and consultations with teachers. I have no idea about funding or
accreditation.

Hippies were doing it quietly, but John Holt was a previously-published
author in use in college classrooms, and so when HE said "let them go home,"
millions of people heard that.

Sandra

Tia Leschke

>
>There's also a group around here (in the Santa Cruz Mountains) who were
>homeschooling long before John Holt did much! They were homeschooling
>in the 70s - I think most of them would have been considered hippies.

They're probably the ones who gave up on trying to start "free schools" for
their kids. That's the kind of school I always thought I would send my
kids to. Only problem with that. . . there weren't any around or enough
interest to start them when my older kids were coming on to school age.
Tia

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