Amy Mason

As long as you aren't offended by language, crude humor etc...that comes
along with teen movies, you have got to see "Accepted"! It is the best
unschooling movie I've ever seen (not that I've seen tons but this is
awesome).

Premise...high school graduate didn't get accepted to any colleges...his
parents insist that he HAS to go to college because that is what
everyone is supposed to do after high school and they have to be like
everyone else...so he starts his own make believe Technical Institute
complete with web page...parents fall for it and give him $$...he
invests in an abandoned mental institution and with help from friends
turns it into a "college"...tons of other "misfits" get accepted as well
and turn the make believe college into a real "school"...including a
curriculum that they make up entitled "What do we _/want/_ to learn".
They preach about how all of their lives they've been told what to learn
and how to learn and now is their chance to learn what they want to
learn...an example of one girl from a real college who really wanted to
take photography but her advisor said she couldn't because she wasn't in
the right major...you get the picture.
Gotta see it...
Amy in WV

Chris

--- In [email protected], Amy Mason <doodlemakers@...>
wrote:
>
> As long as you aren't offended by language, crude humor etc...that
comes
> along with teen movies, you have got to see "Accepted"! It is the best
> unschooling movie I've ever seen (not that I've seen tons but this is
> awesome).

I second this recommendation thoroughly. I found that the underlying
messages in the movie were quite significant, and actually the crude
humor may actually be a bonus in this case that could enable the movie
to reach a wider audience than it might have otherwise.

Chris
Spiritual-Short-Stories.com

Linda Green

Thanks for the tip on the unschooling movie, "Accepted". I'd like to
try to show this movie for free at our local public library friends
room open to the public, and with an email invitation to members of a
local alternative learning exchange group we started in our area. We
have shown some movies at the library to this group and the public
within the last year, and have had a table at a couple of local
Sustainable Living fairs where we showed books we wanted to share with
people, including John Taylor Gatto's books, Llewellyn's "Teenage
Liberation Handbook", old copies of Growing Without Schooling
Newsletter and John Holt's books. One of Gatto's books has a section
by Pat Farenga, John Holt's successor. And we included the Sudbury
philosophy and "Summerhill", among some others. So we are initiating
dialog and gathering together concerned parents with kids, a lot of
them in the public school system who want to get out. And a few
unschooling families have come to our meetings. Due to our public
involvement and holding meetings at the public library, a couple of
learning projects have gotten started in our area, which are very close
to what I would call collective unschooling. My husband and I see
value to all learning experimentation and our own conclusion from our
experience with homeschooling was that the freer the kids are the
better it is for them. If any of you have suggestions on how to
reach the public and get the word out that there are options, and how
unschooling can be shared in a community, I'd be happy to hear them.
Linda

On Nov 18, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Chris wrote:

> --- In [email protected], Amy Mason <doodlemakers@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > As long as you aren't offended by language, crude humor etc...that
> comes
> > along with teen movies, you have got to see "Accepted"! It is the
> best
> > unschooling movie I've ever seen (not that I've seen tons but this
> is
> > awesome).
>
>
>


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