Re: [unschoolingbasics] wanting to go to school and intro
sharon camm
All-
By way of introduction, I have been homeschooling my 9 year old daughter for one year. My 11 year old dd goes to an unschool (Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, MA), and my 3.5 year old ds was doing a few mornings at a playschool last year but will be home fulltime this year.
Every time Rachel asks to go to school it is because she thinks she will get to spend more time with the person she knows who goes there. I remind her that the time will be very structured and supervised and they might not be in the same class. Then she remembers all the cool stuff we've been doing and the freedom that she'll miss. (For those of you asking, she went to Sudbury Valley one year and decided to stay home instead.)
I don't necessarily want to coerce her out of it, but I want to make sure she has all the info to make a choice. The only way to do that is to really find out *why* your child wants to go to school. It's like sales and marketing - find the need and address it directly.
Sharon in MA
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By way of introduction, I have been homeschooling my 9 year old daughter for one year. My 11 year old dd goes to an unschool (Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, MA), and my 3.5 year old ds was doing a few mornings at a playschool last year but will be home fulltime this year.
Every time Rachel asks to go to school it is because she thinks she will get to spend more time with the person she knows who goes there. I remind her that the time will be very structured and supervised and they might not be in the same class. Then she remembers all the cool stuff we've been doing and the freedom that she'll miss. (For those of you asking, she went to Sudbury Valley one year and decided to stay home instead.)
I don't necessarily want to coerce her out of it, but I want to make sure she has all the info to make a choice. The only way to do that is to really find out *why* your child wants to go to school. It's like sales and marketing - find the need and address it directly.
Sharon in MA
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Betsy Varga
Hi,
I met your 11 year old when my daughter was in Charlotte's Web. Will she be
returning to Sudbury Valley in the fall?
Betsy in MA
-----Original Message-----
From: sharon camm [mailto:scamm@...]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [unschoolingbasics] wanting to go to school and intro
All-
By way of introduction, I have been homeschooling my 9 year old daughter for
one year. My 11 year old dd goes to an unschool (Sudbury Valley School in
Framingham, MA), and my 3.5 year old ds was doing a few mornings at a
playschool last year but will be home fulltime this year.
Every time Rachel asks to go to school it is because she thinks she will get
to spend more time with the person she knows who goes there. I remind her
that the time will be very structured and supervised and they might not be
in the same class. Then she remembers all the cool stuff we've been doing
and the freedom that she'll miss. (For those of you asking, she went to
Sudbury Valley one year and decided to stay home instead.)
I don't necessarily want to coerce her out of it, but I want to make sure
she has all the info to make a choice. The only way to do that is to really
find out *why* your child wants to go to school. It's like sales and
marketing - find the need and address it directly.
Sharon in MA
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I met your 11 year old when my daughter was in Charlotte's Web. Will she be
returning to Sudbury Valley in the fall?
Betsy in MA
-----Original Message-----
From: sharon camm [mailto:scamm@...]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [unschoolingbasics] wanting to go to school and intro
All-
By way of introduction, I have been homeschooling my 9 year old daughter for
one year. My 11 year old dd goes to an unschool (Sudbury Valley School in
Framingham, MA), and my 3.5 year old ds was doing a few mornings at a
playschool last year but will be home fulltime this year.
Every time Rachel asks to go to school it is because she thinks she will get
to spend more time with the person she knows who goes there. I remind her
that the time will be very structured and supervised and they might not be
in the same class. Then she remembers all the cool stuff we've been doing
and the freedom that she'll miss. (For those of you asking, she went to
Sudbury Valley one year and decided to stay home instead.)
I don't necessarily want to coerce her out of it, but I want to make sure
she has all the info to make a choice. The only way to do that is to really
find out *why* your child wants to go to school. It's like sales and
marketing - find the need and address it directly.
Sharon in MA
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