"full time education"
Sandra Dodd
I just finished an online survey after having bought something from the Apple store online.
Usually those are blah blah, same old questions, but today there was something new, in all my life of completing surveys and forms, and I wonder about it!
"How old were you when you finished full-time education?"
Oh, that's a good one. "Education" (other people putting their choices of ideas toward you), they asked, not "learning."
I was in grad school a few times, but not "full time." And is high school "full time"? Maybe that's why they give so much homework, to make it total 40 hours. :-) But these same young teens who aren't legally able to work in factories or even ice cream parlors, SHOULD they be doing anything "full time?"
So...
I said 20.
It's a survey—the answers go into a pile as data to tumble around. But what will "20" mean to them? I had a BA in English at 20, because I finished high school at 16. As races go, I "won—not much, but just that... the oddity of being out "young."
When he was 29, my husband got a BS in computer science (with a minor in theatre, when he was planning on a math degree—they "graduated him" to get him to stop living there at undergrad rates; I think he was messing up their stats and they hoped he would continue at the more expensive grad school fees, but he didn't).
There were some years in there when my husband wasn't enrolled at the university at all, and some when it was part-time. So... would he say 29 on an Apple survey?
What about Kirby who has never yet been in "full-time education"? Unless unschooling would be considered that. And if so... still, what would his response be? 18 when it wasn't state-mandated? I never registered him after he was 8. Would he say.... 0? Never started "full-time education"?
Sandra
Usually those are blah blah, same old questions, but today there was something new, in all my life of completing surveys and forms, and I wonder about it!
"How old were you when you finished full-time education?"
Oh, that's a good one. "Education" (other people putting their choices of ideas toward you), they asked, not "learning."
I was in grad school a few times, but not "full time." And is high school "full time"? Maybe that's why they give so much homework, to make it total 40 hours. :-) But these same young teens who aren't legally able to work in factories or even ice cream parlors, SHOULD they be doing anything "full time?"
So...
I said 20.
It's a survey—the answers go into a pile as data to tumble around. But what will "20" mean to them? I had a BA in English at 20, because I finished high school at 16. As races go, I "won—not much, but just that... the oddity of being out "young."
When he was 29, my husband got a BS in computer science (with a minor in theatre, when he was planning on a math degree—they "graduated him" to get him to stop living there at undergrad rates; I think he was messing up their stats and they hoped he would continue at the more expensive grad school fees, but he didn't).
There were some years in there when my husband wasn't enrolled at the university at all, and some when it was part-time. So... would he say 29 on an Apple survey?
What about Kirby who has never yet been in "full-time education"? Unless unschooling would be considered that. And if so... still, what would his response be? 18 when it wasn't state-mandated? I never registered him after he was 8. Would he say.... 0? Never started "full-time education"?
Sandra
lucy.web
On 3 Nov 2013, at 20:39, Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
What about Kirby who has never yet been in "full-time education"? Unless unschooling would be considered that. And if so... still, what would his response be? 18 when it wasn't state-mandated? I never registered him after he was 8. Would he say.... 0? Never started "full-time education"?
In the UK he would be considered as in ‘full time education’ as an unschooler. Basically the law says your child must be in “full time education suited to their age, ability and aptitude”, or some wording like that anyway! So anyone that says they are home educating in the UK is careful to call what their child is doing ‘full time education’.