Anything for Unschooling (was Re: [AlwaysLearning] How do kids learn?)
Pam Hartley
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From: "Kinkade" <kinkade@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] How do kids learn?
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2002, 11:40 AM
So, how do the rest of you deal with state requirements? Do you try to find
an evaluator who will be open to unschooling (and how do you do that), or do
you find an umbrella school that will let your kids learn without requiring
tests or evaluations and only require what they have to? I guess I am just
wondering how the rest of you handle this obstacle to their freedom.
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What state? And you could also post this question (or search the archives)
on your state at the message boards at www.unschooling.com.
I know there are unschoolers in every state, so there are ways to do these
things. I also know that if I lived in a state that was particularly
annoying (and the way California is about legislation-in-general, someday I
might be!) I'd move if necessary.
Unschooling is our main priority in life while our kids are of compulsory
attendance age -- everything else has to "fit in" with it, and Wally and I
will do anything to preserve it for them, including changing states,
careers, whatever it takes.
So that might be a fun topic here, too: how far would YOU go to unschool? Is
there anywhere you'd draw the line and just say, "Okay, I give, it's not
worth THAT"?
Pam
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From: "Kinkade" <kinkade@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] How do kids learn?
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2002, 11:40 AM
So, how do the rest of you deal with state requirements? Do you try to find
an evaluator who will be open to unschooling (and how do you do that), or do
you find an umbrella school that will let your kids learn without requiring
tests or evaluations and only require what they have to? I guess I am just
wondering how the rest of you handle this obstacle to their freedom.
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What state? And you could also post this question (or search the archives)
on your state at the message boards at www.unschooling.com.
I know there are unschoolers in every state, so there are ways to do these
things. I also know that if I lived in a state that was particularly
annoying (and the way California is about legislation-in-general, someday I
might be!) I'd move if necessary.
Unschooling is our main priority in life while our kids are of compulsory
attendance age -- everything else has to "fit in" with it, and Wally and I
will do anything to preserve it for them, including changing states,
careers, whatever it takes.
So that might be a fun topic here, too: how far would YOU go to unschool? Is
there anywhere you'd draw the line and just say, "Okay, I give, it's not
worth THAT"?
Pam
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moonmeghan
<<<<--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., Pam Hartley <pamhartley@m...>
wrote:
But first I'd do everything in my power to get around any
legislation that made it difficult. And of course, there's always
faking it (as in do the kids work and hand it in if necessary) <g>.
Lawless Meghan
wrote:
> So that might be a fun topic here, too: how far would YOU go tounschool? Is
> there anywhere you'd draw the line and just say, "Okay, I give,it's not
> worth THAT"?I'd definitely move if I couldn't unschool here for some reason.
>
> Pam>>>>
But first I'd do everything in my power to get around any
legislation that made it difficult. And of course, there's always
faking it (as in do the kids work and hand it in if necessary) <g>.
Lawless Meghan