not anti unschooling!
cartoontv5
Hi.Thanks for all this great info.No, Kelly I am not anti unschooling
and I am not against it.I was just trying to understand.
I was on an unschooling chat a long while ago which Sandra Dodd was
on but the people were so nasty to each other I finally had to
unsubcribe.I am going to read more.
I see how kids can learn everything they need just through living-but
math is the only thing that really has me "worried".I only had basic
math so when it comes to algebra or higher math I coulnt help
them.What if my child wants to go to college and needs this to be
excepted? I really dont know this- I am not being negative.It seems
to me that unschoolers in general get very upset when people question
them-or maybe I am just taking it the wrong way.
Thank again everyone,
Jeanne
and I am not against it.I was just trying to understand.
I was on an unschooling chat a long while ago which Sandra Dodd was
on but the people were so nasty to each other I finally had to
unsubcribe.I am going to read more.
I see how kids can learn everything they need just through living-but
math is the only thing that really has me "worried".I only had basic
math so when it comes to algebra or higher math I coulnt help
them.What if my child wants to go to college and needs this to be
excepted? I really dont know this- I am not being negative.It seems
to me that unschoolers in general get very upset when people question
them-or maybe I am just taking it the wrong way.
Thank again everyone,
Jeanne
liannemargaret
Yeah, math had me worried, too.
To the point that I printed out an assessment for curriculum
[Singapore Math] for ds (5) which was about 15 pages long and looked
SOOOO daunting.
But before I could attempt to "get him" to do it, he was sneaking it,
one page at a time, and running off to do the various questions by
himself. Correctly, I might add. He couldn't tell me how he knew the
answers to many of the questions, but that doesn't matter.
Aside from measuring for baking, playing cribbage, or figuring out how
much paint needed to paint a room, I don't think we've actually "done"
any math. Certainly we haven't done more than one concept beyond
counting.
He's proven to me I need to have more faith in him.
He's proven I need to have more faith in unschooling.
It just works.
BTW, when I did college for Registered Massage Therapy, they almost
didn't let me in because of 2 low science marks. I was informed that
I would have been accepted immediately, and without interview, without
any diploma. I get the impression that badges in boy scouts are more
meaningful.
JMO,
Lianne
--- "cartoontv5" <LJeanne28@a...> wrote:
To the point that I printed out an assessment for curriculum
[Singapore Math] for ds (5) which was about 15 pages long and looked
SOOOO daunting.
But before I could attempt to "get him" to do it, he was sneaking it,
one page at a time, and running off to do the various questions by
himself. Correctly, I might add. He couldn't tell me how he knew the
answers to many of the questions, but that doesn't matter.
Aside from measuring for baking, playing cribbage, or figuring out how
much paint needed to paint a room, I don't think we've actually "done"
any math. Certainly we haven't done more than one concept beyond
counting.
He's proven to me I need to have more faith in him.
He's proven I need to have more faith in unschooling.
It just works.
BTW, when I did college for Registered Massage Therapy, they almost
didn't let me in because of 2 low science marks. I was informed that
I would have been accepted immediately, and without interview, without
any diploma. I get the impression that badges in boy scouts are more
meaningful.
JMO,
Lianne
--- "cartoontv5" <LJeanne28@a...> wrote:
>
> Hi.Thanks for all this great info. No, Kelly I am not anti unschooling
> and I am not against it.I was just trying to understand.
> I was on an unschooling chat a long while ago which Sandra Dodd was
> on but the people were so nasty to each other I finally had to
> unsubcribe.I am going to read more.
> I see how kids can learn everything they need just through living-but
> math is the only thing that really has me "worried".I only had basic
> math so when it comes to algebra or higher math I coulnt help
> them.What if my child wants to go to college and needs this to be
> excepted? I really dont know this- I am not being negative.It seems
> to me that unschoolers in general get very upset when people question
> them-or maybe I am just taking it the wrong way.
> Thank again everyone,
> Jeanne
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In a message dated 1/2/2005 1:34:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
liannemargaret@... writes:
He's proven to me I need to have more faith in him.
He's proven I need to have more faith in unschooling.
It just works.<<<<
Cool. Major Cool!
~Kelly
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liannemargaret@... writes:
He's proven to me I need to have more faith in him.
He's proven I need to have more faith in unschooling.
It just works.<<<<
Cool. Major Cool!
~Kelly
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Syndi
HI Jeanne!
I also worried, and honestly still do sometimes, about math. But I
was an A student in math, after a teacher humiliated me in front of
the class! It stuck with me and after that math never beat me
again. But, now at 40, if I tried to do some of that math again, I'd
have to study it again! I think back to this and find it so funny, I
thought I knew it and now I can't do it!
But the ONE thing I really really wanted to do was cut short
because of all the homework. I got in trouble for trying to do it in
every class I was in! So now I'm trying to figure out how to get
myself back into what I was meant to do, which is drawing!
Keep reading, it'll make more and more sense as time goes on and
those "little monsters" will soon go away.
The nice thing about THIS message board is they let everyone who
has a thought post a thought, without ridicule. So stick around!
syndi
I also worried, and honestly still do sometimes, about math. But I
was an A student in math, after a teacher humiliated me in front of
the class! It stuck with me and after that math never beat me
again. But, now at 40, if I tried to do some of that math again, I'd
have to study it again! I think back to this and find it so funny, I
thought I knew it and now I can't do it!
But the ONE thing I really really wanted to do was cut short
because of all the homework. I got in trouble for trying to do it in
every class I was in! So now I'm trying to figure out how to get
myself back into what I was meant to do, which is drawing!
Keep reading, it'll make more and more sense as time goes on and
those "little monsters" will soon go away.
The nice thing about THIS message board is they let everyone who
has a thought post a thought, without ridicule. So stick around!
syndi