Sandra Dodd

On someone else’s facebook page, she sweetly described her days with her child, and how wonderrul her unschooling is.

FB friends of hers (from another hobby they have in common, that I’m kind of / formerly involved in—not the SCA this time, but something else)… 
Those friends who know her, but don’t know about unschooling, started with the same lame questions and objections.

Here’s my response to one statement:
_______________________________________________

-=-A good teacher sparks the student's interest in subjects and concepts that the child has not considered worth exploring.-=-

So do talkative parents and siblings and movies, TV shows, visits to parks, zoos, museum, play groups, having friends over, travel, YouTube.  

Bad teachers can do lasting damage.

I had nine teachers in elementary (six main, and three music/art), and 36 teachers after that (33, because I took more than one class with two of them. So for me, 42 teachers. A dozen of them were really great. I stayed in contact with many of them for years. Another dozen were good, and I liked them and I learned. Some were good sometimes, a few were not very competent.

I taught in the same district myself for six years, so some of them were my co-workers later.

So I know a lot about school AND about homeschooling. It's interesting when someone asks me a question of makes a statement that makes it seem they think I don't know anything about either one. :-)

The real world is big. Kids in school are kept away from the real world. My kids lived right in it, right there, every day.

_______________________________________________
It seemed worth sharing with unschoolers, rather than friends-only where someone was being told things like "I guess I am not convinced. I see a great disadvantage in learning alone. “ and " and also how then do the kids learn about socialisation?”

For anyone new to this group, who wonders anything like that, here:  http://sandradodd.com/faq
All those questions, with answers and some links.  

Sandra