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Does anyone know more info about this? I received it today.
Elissa


<<<Dear Member of the Home-Education Community:

On behalf of the Quaqua Society, Inc., http://www.quaqua.org, I am writing
to extend our greetings to you.

Quaqua is a tax-exempt, non-profit, pro-bono, charitable foundation that
offers recognition, financial assistance, and career resources to home
educators of all backgrounds from around the world. We are committed to
working with existing organizations, publications, institutions, and
cultures in the global home-education community of this 21st century.

Those in your local home-education community are welcome to participate in
Quaqua at all levels of volunteer leadership, and to make use of the
services we provide. We are open to ideas for continued cooperation with
your local home-education community. We hope that you will let other local
home educators know about Quaqua, through conversation, e-mail, and linking.
We also welcome information and feedback from you and others that will help
us to improve the quality of our service. Our effort to improve our
organization and its website is ongoing.

We want you to know that we view helping home educators across the world as
central to our mission. We believe we have developed an exciting new concept
for doing this, and hope you will stay in touch with us.

Thank you,

Dan Witte

Chair of the Board of Trustees

Quaqua Society, Inc.>>>>




~Elissa Cleaveland
An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;
Happy in this, she is not so old
But she may learn.
W.S. The Merchant of Venice III, ii, 160

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In a message dated 8/27/02 8:43:06 AM Central Daylight Time,
ElissaJC@... writes:


> Does anyone know more info about this? I received it today.
> Elissa
>
>
> <<<Dear Member of the Home-Education Community:
>
> On behalf of the Quaqua Society, Inc., http://www.quaqua.org, I am writing
> to extend our greetings to you.

Elissa, I received this a few months ago. It is apparently a scholorship
foundation set up by a former homeschooler, for homeschoolers going to
college. There are a few different scholarships for different things, but
mainly the participant has to submit examples of the schoolwork, portfolios,
an essay topic (chosen by the committee) etc.. to be able to apply. There are
a ton (!!) of rules and regulations, including this excerpt from the
qualifications list.

> A commitment to one’s family, and respect for one or more of the
traditional forms >of the heterosexual family institution as found in
civilizations based (according to >self-assertion) upon Judeo-Christian
scripture or Jewish scripture, the Koran, the >Confucian Code, Buddhist
tradition, Hindu tradition, Sikh tradition, Shinto tradition, <Taoist
tradition, traditional aboriginal and tribal structures, and/or other<A HREF="http://www.quaqua.org/#_edn8"> [2] </A>
traditions

>A commitment to respecting and preserving the legal rights and liberties of
all >people with regard to their rights as adults to the following:

>direct the upbringing of their own natural child


>engage in the free exercise of religion


>enjoy free expression, meaningful petitioning of the government, free
association, >and a meaningfully opportunity to vote for sovereign
governmental representation


>be free of unreasonable government searches or seizures of property or
people


>enjoy family autonomy in their own homes and in their efforts to
meaningfully and >reasonably defend their own custodial children from
physical and non-physical >dangers


>obtain fair procedural processes for legal proceedings against them


>be free from core legal and economic badges and incidents of involuntary
servitude<A HREF="http://www.quaqua.org/#_edn9"> >[3] </A>and/or the terrorism of unprincipled, arbitrary and capricious
public mayhem



I found it an interesting site, but doubt I would participate :::shrug::: It
seemed (to me) to be a tad over the top. Although it was interesting to know
there are scholarships specifically for the homeschooled student. I just
seems to be tailored for the traditional school-at-homer and specifically the
religious school-at-homer. But then, I could have read the site in the wrong
light.
~Nancy


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Thanks Nancy!
I'm not even close to my kids thinking about college, it was just curiosity.
~Elissa Cleaveland
An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;
Happy in this, she is not so old
But she may learn.
W.S. The Merchant of Venice III, ii, 160

Tia Leschke

>
>
> > A commitment to one’s family, and respect for one or more of the
>traditional forms >of the heterosexual family institution as found in
>civilizations based (according to >self-assertion) upon Judeo-Christian
>scripture or Jewish scripture, the Koran, the >Confucian Code, Buddhist
>tradition, Hindu tradition, Sikh tradition, Shinto tradition, <Taoist
>tradition, traditional aboriginal and tribal structures, and/or other<A
>HREF="http://www.quaqua.org/#_edn8"> [2] </A>
>traditions
>
>
>I found it an interesting site, but doubt I would participate :::shrug::: It
>seemed (to me) to be a tad over the top. Although it was interesting to know
>there are scholarships specifically for the homeschooled student. I just
>seems to be tailored for the traditional school-at-homer and specifically the
>religious school-at-homer. But then, I could have read the site in the wrong
>light.

Well they certainly exclude gay people and anyone who isn't anti-gay, from
what I can tell. That would be enough to keep this live-and-let-live
heterosexual from being involved.
Tia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
*********************************************
Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island

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In a message dated 8/27/02 1:56:39 PM Central Daylight Time,
leschke@... writes:


> Well they certainly exclude gay people and anyone who isn't anti-gay, from
> what I can tell. That would be enough to keep this live-and-let-live
> heterosexual from being involved.
> Tia
>

Yeah, when they sent me that email a few months ago, my nose really wrinkled
up! At first I was kind of excited (not that Moly or Jack are ready for
college <g>) that there was a scholarship program for homeschoolers.... THEN
I spent some time reading through their site and @@ any way... Not my cupa,
but I know a family who are school-at-homers who have a 16yo and I forwarded
it to them. Maybe she won't mind the blatant homophobic references.
~Nancy


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Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema

Hello everyone,
We're considering an eventual move to the Big Sur-or-thereabouts area but
the remote-ness of the space and the terrain (terrifically different from
where we are now!) is bringing up some questions.

I'd greatly appreciate it if homeschoolers (or homeschool-friendly people)
who live in mountainous-coastal areas could email me off-list so I could
ask questions and get some opinions. Especially if you've built a home
from scratch in a mountainous area - up twisty roads where no semi-truck
will ever be able to go!

Please email me at heidi@...
Thanks!
Heidi

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In a message dated 8/30/02 8:34:36 AM, bearspawprint@... writes:

<< Well they are wrong, anyway. Not all of the listed
cultures have entirely heterosexual traditional family
insitutions. >>

OH HUH!

They have entirely heterosexual families and then some socially and eternally
doomed perverts.


Live is simple.