Rachel

My DD15 has as of today come to live with my husbandand I full time.
She has lived with her dad most of her life (we were young but that is
another story) but I have always been extremely active in her life. I
am fairly new to "radical" unschooling and am a recovering control
freak. I am on such a journey finding my spirit and setting it free
and now have been blessed that DD15 gets to come along (if she wants:)).

Now to get to the point. Her dad and step-mom really believe that
school is the way and have pushed her incredibly hard to excel. She
is a 4.0 student and of course her teachers love her because she is a
"good kid". In my previous life I was proud of her for this but my
heart aches now that I see how compliant she is. How can I help her
and her other parents see that not going to school would be better?
She could play in a mud hole or dance in a field of daisies and be
better of but she doesn't even know what she likes.

Rachel
DD5, DD15

Pamela Sorooshian

On Mar 4, 2007, at 6:59 PM, Rachel wrote:

> How can I help her
> and her other parents see that not going to school would be better?
> She could play in a mud hole or dance in a field of daisies and be
> better of but she doesn't even know what she likes.

Maybe you and she could read "Guerilla Learning" by Grace Llewelyn.
If she stays in school, that might help her feel less like being
compliant and more like being in control of her own life, anyway.

-pam
Relay for Life
http://www.acsevents.org/relay/ca/longbeach/pamsoroosh



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Rachel

--- In [email protected], Pamela Sorooshian
<pamsoroosh@...> wrote:
>
>

> Maybe you and she could read "Guerilla Learning" by Grace Llewelyn.
> If she stays in school, that might help her feel less like being
> compliant and more like being in control of her own life, anyway.
>
> -pam
> Relay for Life
> http://www.acsevents.org/relay/ca/longbeach/pamsoroosh
>
>
Thanks for responding Pam. I have "The Teenage Liberation Handbook"
by Grace Llewelyn from the library. Reading that is what made me
realize that RU was the only choice for DD5, and hope for DD15 to have
at least the choice.

Rachel

[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: radle12000@...\

Now to get to the point. Her dad and step-mom really believe that
school is the way and have pushed her incredibly hard to excel. She
is a 4.0 student and of course her teachers love her because she is a
"good kid". In my previous life I was proud of her for this but my
heart aches now that I see how compliant she is. How can I help her
and her other parents see that not going to school would be better?
She could play in a mud hole or dance in a field of daisies and be
better of but she doesn't even know what she likes.

-=-=-

Try Gatto's The Underground History of American Education
Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook (to get out) and Guerilla
Learning (if she must stay in school)



~Kelly

Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org


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