Course Work-High School
kalib1970
Hello Everyone,
My name is Kali, and I am brand new to this. I live in Columbia South
Carolina, and my 10th grader just moved back home with me after living
with his dad in Hawaii for the last year. We have tried the high
schools here in the past, and they just don't work for him. I have
another child who attends the school district here, and loves it! It
is so true that each child is different! Anyway, I am looking for the
best place to find curriculum for Justin. I have found some online
courses through South Carolina Virtual School; however, he can only
take three credits per year, and he wishes to do more. Can anyone give
me any information.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Kali
My name is Kali, and I am brand new to this. I live in Columbia South
Carolina, and my 10th grader just moved back home with me after living
with his dad in Hawaii for the last year. We have tried the high
schools here in the past, and they just don't work for him. I have
another child who attends the school district here, and loves it! It
is so true that each child is different! Anyway, I am looking for the
best place to find curriculum for Justin. I have found some online
courses through South Carolina Virtual School; however, he can only
take three credits per year, and he wishes to do more. Can anyone give
me any information.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Kali
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: kalib1970 <kalib1970@...>
My name is Kali, and I am brand new to this. I live in Columbia South
Carolina, and my 10th grader just moved back home with me after living
with his dad in Hawaii for the last year. We have tried the high
schools here in the past, and they just don't work for him. I have
another child who attends the school district here, and loves it! It
is so true that each child is different! Anyway, I am looking for the
best place to find curriculum for Justin. I have found some online
courses through South Carolina Virtual School; however, he can only
take three credits per year, and he wishes to do more. Can anyone give
me any information.
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Kali,
This might not be the group you're looking for. We don't use
curricula---just life and all it offers. <g> We're UNschoolers! <G>
I just got your membership application for SOS, so you will be getting
your cards and letter from me as soon as the PayPal goes through.
But you're welcome to call me to talk more about what's necessary in SC
in order to homeschool.
803 776 4849 home
803 237 4948 cell
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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From: kalib1970 <kalib1970@...>
My name is Kali, and I am brand new to this. I live in Columbia South
Carolina, and my 10th grader just moved back home with me after living
with his dad in Hawaii for the last year. We have tried the high
schools here in the past, and they just don't work for him. I have
another child who attends the school district here, and loves it! It
is so true that each child is different! Anyway, I am looking for the
best place to find curriculum for Justin. I have found some online
courses through South Carolina Virtual School; however, he can only
take three credits per year, and he wishes to do more. Can anyone give
me any information.
-=-=-=
Kali,
This might not be the group you're looking for. We don't use
curricula---just life and all it offers. <g> We're UNschoolers! <G>
I just got your membership application for SOS, so you will be getting
your cards and letter from me as soon as the PayPal goes through.
But you're welcome to call me to talk more about what's necessary in SC
in order to homeschool.
803 776 4849 home
803 237 4948 cell
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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trektheory
Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it is
appropriate.
Linda
appropriate.
Linda
--- In [email protected], kbcdlovejo@... wrote:
>
> Kali,
>
> This might not be the group you're looking for. We don't use
> curricula---just life and all it offers. <g> We're UNschoolers! <G>
>
> I just got your membership application for SOS, so you will be getting
> your cards and letter from me as soon as the PayPal goes through.
>
> But you're welcome to call me to talk more about what's necessary in SC
> in order to homeschool.
>
> 803 776 4849 home
> 803 237 4948 cell
>
>
>
> ~Kelly
>
> Kelly Lovejoy
> Conference Coordinator
> Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
> http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
>
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Ren Allen
~~
Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it is
appropriate.~~
No, not always. That one is a big, huge IT DEPENDS.
If a child thinks that is the best way to learn, or has been
brainwashed by the school system or schoolish parents, it might pay to
invest some time helping them find multiple paths to what they want.
Or spend time helping them HEAL from that damage so they can see that
curriculum is one of the WORST ways to learn most anything!!
I think it's important to invest time in helping a child trust the
natural learning process, helping them explore the exciting world we
live in, help them find new and interesting EXPERIENCES rather than
just shoving a curriculum at them as a first response.
My nephew is going to high school this year. As a radically unschooled
kiddo, his experience is vastly different from that of a child that
thinks they need school to learn.
Curriculum is not designed to help a learner get what they need for
the most part, it is designed to put information inside of another
person, something that never works. As a partial tool, it can be O.K.
(not great, but ok). If a learner believes it is the best way to learn
a new skill or validate an interest, they are sadly mistaken.
There are reasons an unschooler might use curriculum, including a
desire to attend college. But that isn't what this mother asked about
and this list is here to help people UNSCHOOL, not find curriculum.
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it is
appropriate.~~
No, not always. That one is a big, huge IT DEPENDS.
If a child thinks that is the best way to learn, or has been
brainwashed by the school system or schoolish parents, it might pay to
invest some time helping them find multiple paths to what they want.
Or spend time helping them HEAL from that damage so they can see that
curriculum is one of the WORST ways to learn most anything!!
I think it's important to invest time in helping a child trust the
natural learning process, helping them explore the exciting world we
live in, help them find new and interesting EXPERIENCES rather than
just shoving a curriculum at them as a first response.
My nephew is going to high school this year. As a radically unschooled
kiddo, his experience is vastly different from that of a child that
thinks they need school to learn.
Curriculum is not designed to help a learner get what they need for
the most part, it is designed to put information inside of another
person, something that never works. As a partial tool, it can be O.K.
(not great, but ok). If a learner believes it is the best way to learn
a new skill or validate an interest, they are sadly mistaken.
There are reasons an unschooler might use curriculum, including a
desire to attend college. But that isn't what this mother asked about
and this list is here to help people UNSCHOOL, not find curriculum.
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
Joyce Fetteroll
On Dec 2, 2007, at 12:31 PM, trektheory wrote:
is, though.
Once a parent understands unschooling, once a child is over their own
need to do school, it's obvious that whatever way a child wants to
explore something is unschooling.
But a child coming out of school will want curriculum for different
reasons than a long time unschooling child.
Joyce
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> Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it isIt's just confusing to add it into explanations of what unschooling
> appropriate.
is, though.
Once a parent understands unschooling, once a child is over their own
need to do school, it's obvious that whatever way a child wants to
explore something is unschooling.
But a child coming out of school will want curriculum for different
reasons than a long time unschooling child.
Joyce
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[email protected]
I had a BUNCH of unschoolers over to my house last March (and we'll
have another big group here this next weekend---Amy Steinberg,
anyone?), and someone came downstairs and called me on the mat.
Laughing at all the textbooks and workbooks and reference books we had
in an upstairs bookshelf. Like it was this big joke that *I* had such
things in my house. My high school Latin books, my college Greek and
German books, biology, physics, and chemistry books by the tons,
history texts---all made for some good ribbing that weekend. <g>
It's not that unschooling homes *don't* have these things; it's just
that their importance doesn't overshadow the importance of tv and video
games and fencing equipment and trampolines and drumsets and decks of
cards. All equal in importance to learning.
Had *I* been unschooled, I would have probably been a very "academic"
unschooler. I would have been drawn to Latin and Greek and physics and
grammar and WWII and literature naturally. And I *was*. I would have
been drawn to certain curricula---I think I would have LOVED _The
Well-Trained Mind_. I *do* love _The Well-Trained Mind_! <G>
But I would not consider pushing a curriculum on a child to be
unschooling. If a child chooses, on his own, to work through a certain
curriculum, super! But to choose a curriculum and expect a child to do
it joyfully in order to "get an education" is not a good
expectation---and it's not unschooling.
Because unschooling is about learning from the whole wide world and
because texts and curricula are *parts* of the whole wide world, it's
reasonable to believe that a child would be interested in following a
curriculum.
And although all unschooling IS homeschooling, all homeschooling is not
necessarily UNschooling. (All poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are
poodles.)
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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From: trektheory <trektheory@...>
Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it is
appropriate.
Linda
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have another big group here this next weekend---Amy Steinberg,
anyone?), and someone came downstairs and called me on the mat.
Laughing at all the textbooks and workbooks and reference books we had
in an upstairs bookshelf. Like it was this big joke that *I* had such
things in my house. My high school Latin books, my college Greek and
German books, biology, physics, and chemistry books by the tons,
history texts---all made for some good ribbing that weekend. <g>
It's not that unschooling homes *don't* have these things; it's just
that their importance doesn't overshadow the importance of tv and video
games and fencing equipment and trampolines and drumsets and decks of
cards. All equal in importance to learning.
Had *I* been unschooled, I would have probably been a very "academic"
unschooler. I would have been drawn to Latin and Greek and physics and
grammar and WWII and literature naturally. And I *was*. I would have
been drawn to certain curricula---I think I would have LOVED _The
Well-Trained Mind_. I *do* love _The Well-Trained Mind_! <G>
But I would not consider pushing a curriculum on a child to be
unschooling. If a child chooses, on his own, to work through a certain
curriculum, super! But to choose a curriculum and expect a child to do
it joyfully in order to "get an education" is not a good
expectation---and it's not unschooling.
Because unschooling is about learning from the whole wide world and
because texts and curricula are *parts* of the whole wide world, it's
reasonable to believe that a child would be interested in following a
curriculum.
And although all unschooling IS homeschooling, all homeschooling is not
necessarily UNschooling. (All poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are
poodles.)
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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From: trektheory <trektheory@...>
Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it is
appropriate.
Linda
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Michelle Turnbow
good points! you shouldn't prohibit the use of texts/curricula if the child is interested in them.
kbcdlovejo@... wrote: I had a BUNCH of unschoolers over to my house last March (and we'll
have another big group here this next weekend---Amy Steinberg,
anyone?), and someone came downstairs and called me on the mat.
Laughing at all the textbooks and workbooks and reference books we had
in an upstairs bookshelf. Like it was this big joke that *I* had such
things in my house. My high school Latin books, my college Greek and
German books, biology, physics, and chemistry books by the tons,
history texts---all made for some good ribbing that weekend. <g>
It's not that unschooling homes *don't* have these things; it's just
that their importance doesn't overshadow the importance of tv and video
games and fencing equipment and trampolines and drumsets and decks of
cards. All equal in importance to learning.
Had *I* been unschooled, I would have probably been a very "academic"
unschooler. I would have been drawn to Latin and Greek and physics and
grammar and WWII and literature naturally. And I *was*. I would have
been drawn to certain curricula---I think I would have LOVED _The
Well-Trained Mind_. I *do* love _The Well-Trained Mind_! <G>
But I would not consider pushing a curriculum on a child to be
unschooling. If a child chooses, on his own, to work through a certain
curriculum, super! But to choose a curriculum and expect a child to do
it joyfully in order to "get an education" is not a good
expectation---and it's not unschooling.
Because unschooling is about learning from the whole wide world and
because texts and curricula are *parts* of the whole wide world, it's
reasonable to believe that a child would be interested in following a
curriculum.
And although all unschooling IS homeschooling, all homeschooling is not
necessarily UNschooling. (All poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are
poodles.)
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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From: trektheory <trektheory@...>
Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it is
appropriate.
Linda
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kbcdlovejo@... wrote: I had a BUNCH of unschoolers over to my house last March (and we'll
have another big group here this next weekend---Amy Steinberg,
anyone?), and someone came downstairs and called me on the mat.
Laughing at all the textbooks and workbooks and reference books we had
in an upstairs bookshelf. Like it was this big joke that *I* had such
things in my house. My high school Latin books, my college Greek and
German books, biology, physics, and chemistry books by the tons,
history texts---all made for some good ribbing that weekend. <g>
It's not that unschooling homes *don't* have these things; it's just
that their importance doesn't overshadow the importance of tv and video
games and fencing equipment and trampolines and drumsets and decks of
cards. All equal in importance to learning.
Had *I* been unschooled, I would have probably been a very "academic"
unschooler. I would have been drawn to Latin and Greek and physics and
grammar and WWII and literature naturally. And I *was*. I would have
been drawn to certain curricula---I think I would have LOVED _The
Well-Trained Mind_. I *do* love _The Well-Trained Mind_! <G>
But I would not consider pushing a curriculum on a child to be
unschooling. If a child chooses, on his own, to work through a certain
curriculum, super! But to choose a curriculum and expect a child to do
it joyfully in order to "get an education" is not a good
expectation---and it's not unschooling.
Because unschooling is about learning from the whole wide world and
because texts and curricula are *parts* of the whole wide world, it's
reasonable to believe that a child would be interested in following a
curriculum.
And although all unschooling IS homeschooling, all homeschooling is not
necessarily UNschooling. (All poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are
poodles.)
~Kelly
Kelly Lovejoy
Conference Coordinator
Live and Learn Unschooling Conference
http://www.LiveandLearnConference.org
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From: trektheory <trektheory@...>
Well, technically, if the child wants curricular material, it is
appropriate.
Linda
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In a message dated 12/2/2007 7:28:57 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
kbcdlovejo@... writes:
Anyway, I am looking for the
best place to find curriculum for Justin. I have found some online
courses through South Carolina Virtual School; however, he can only
take three credits per year, and he wishes to do more. Can anyone give
me any information.
_______________
hi, kali. you might want to try _www.globalvillageschool.org_
(http://www.globalvillageschool.org) . they have a lovely, unschooling minded (i know that
can seem a misnomer, lol) group of online classes and you can be full time or
just a class or two. it was a good transition from conventional education to
home to unschooling fir us. my son fell in love with the Buddhist Class.
Karen
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kbcdlovejo@... writes:
Anyway, I am looking for the
best place to find curriculum for Justin. I have found some online
courses through South Carolina Virtual School; however, he can only
take three credits per year, and he wishes to do more. Can anyone give
me any information.
_______________
hi, kali. you might want to try _www.globalvillageschool.org_
(http://www.globalvillageschool.org) . they have a lovely, unschooling minded (i know that
can seem a misnomer, lol) group of online classes and you can be full time or
just a class or two. it was a good transition from conventional education to
home to unschooling fir us. my son fell in love with the Buddhist Class.
Karen
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