carolyn

Today we went to our homeschooling weekly roller skating event.
Sometimes, toward the end of the hour and a half we're there, someone
from the skating rink announces games and races and whoever wants to
join in does.

Recently, they started segmenting by age groups (perhaps it's a larger
group now) and having a one event race with a winner and a runner up.
Today, there was a different guy there calling the race. He said,
"Okay, first let's have all the girls come on out and race." The whole
place got very quiet and I heard one kid gasp, "What?" Long pause.
Nobody moved. Finally, someone skated over to him, whispered and then
he said, "Okay, everybody 8 and under" and everything returned to
normal.

I just thought it was funny and that it shows (perhaps) that
homeschoolers are used to being divided by age but not gender.

Carolyn

Joylyn

I just told this to lexie and she totally got it. Yep, this is
ahomeschooling group. :-)

Joylyn

carolyn wrote:

> Today we went to our homeschooling weekly roller skating event.
> Sometimes, toward the end of the hour and a half we're there, someone
> from the skating rink announces games and races and whoever wants to
> join in does.
>
> Recently, they started segmenting by age groups (perhaps it's a larger
>
> group now) and having a one event race with a winner and a runner up.
> Today, there was a different guy there calling the race. He said,
> "Okay, first let's have all the girls come on out and race." The
> whole
> place got very quiet and I heard one kid gasp, "What?" Long pause.
> Nobody moved. Finally, someone skated over to him, whispered and then
>
> he said, "Okay, everybody 8 and under" and everything returned to
> normal.
>
> I just thought it was funny and that it shows (perhaps) that
> homeschoolers are used to being divided by age but not gender.
>
> Carolyn
>
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Shyrley

carolyn wrote:

>
>
> I just thought it was funny and that it shows (perhaps) that
> homeschoolers are used to being divided by age but not gender.
>
> Carolyn
>

I find this dividing by age thing bizarre (although I will admit that maybe
in racing it is a good thing). Nearly every home-school activity here in VA
is done according to age. This never happened with the people I knew in
England. We did rock climbing, indoor skiing, ice skating, art lessons, music
sessions, debating etc etc and nothing was ageist. All ages joined in
together.
One of the beauties of Home education is watching teenagers cooperating with
toddlers and the trust that builds up between the differnt ages. Sad not to
see that here :-)

Shyrley

Diane

I totally agree with this, and find the age (not ability) segregation really
depressing. One of the real lessons of public school, IMHO.

:-) Diane

Shyrley wrote:

> One of the beauties of Home education is watching teenagers cooperating with
> toddlers and the trust that builds up between the differnt ages. Sad not to
> see that here :-)
>
> Shyrley

Cindy

Diane wrote:
>
> I totally agree with this, and find the age (not ability) segregation really
> depressing. One of the real lessons of public school, IMHO.
>
> :-) Diane
>
> Shyrley wrote:
>
> > One of the beauties of Home education is watching teenagers cooperating with
> > toddlers and the trust that builds up between the differnt ages. Sad not to
> > see that here :-)
> >
> >

I had one mother of teens tell me though that she didn't want the younger
children around since they might slow down her children. Of course when
her sons were younger, she liked having the older children around! I lost
all respect for her - she's a homeschooling "leader" here in the Bay Area.
So all the museum days, etc. are age segregated here. I don't go to them
since I'd rather go on my own and let my kids see what they want, how they
want!

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Kate Green

>
> I had one mother of teens tell me though that she didn't want the younger
> Of course when
> I lost
>"" here in the Bay Area.
> I don't go to them
> since I'd rather go on my own and let my kids see what they want, how they
> want!
>

that's really sad -- little ones make us think more creatively and see
things thru a new lense!

I think the visits to museums with hs groups are funny when the staff try
to get the kids to line up. I remember watching about 40 mixed age hs kids
in Denver spend about 10 minutes trying to figure out the lining up thing.
The education staff (used of course to ps kids) were amazed but the moms
thought it really funny.

Kate


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moonmeghan

<<<<--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., Shyrley <shyrley@s...> wrote:

> I find this dividing by age thing bizarre (although I will admit that
maybe in racing it is a good thing). Nearly every home-school
activity here in VA is done according to age. This never happened
with the people I knew in England. We did rock climbing, indoor
skiing, ice skating, art lessons, music sessions, debating etc etc
and nothing was ageist. All ages joined in together. One of the
beauties of Home education is watching teenagers cooperating
with toddlers and the trust that builds up between the differnt
ages. Sad not to see that here :-)
>
Shyrley>>>>

I've noticed that too. Everything we did in the UK seemed to
involve all ages. Here it's so age segregated. The oldest kid we
know is 10.

Meghan