unschooling a high schooler
dmcml5
Hello-
Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
need some help.
Thank You
Michelle
Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
need some help.
Thank You
Michelle
April Morris
I am unschooling two high school age kids.(My oldest is no longer high
school age, but that hasn't changed what we do. She takes classes
at a local college now. I don't do anything different than I did before. I
help them do the activities and things they want to do. I spend time with
them. I make home a great place to be and a great place to bring friends to.
I don't 'count' anything for school because we are not doing school.
school age, but that hasn't changed what we do. She takes classes
at a local college now. I don't do anything different than I did before. I
help them do the activities and things they want to do. I spend time with
them. I make home a great place to be and a great place to bring friends to.
I don't 'count' anything for school because we are not doing school.
On 1/11/06, dmcml5 <dmcml5@...> wrote:
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Jennifer Blair
Michelle,
I am unschooling a high schooler, or he is educating himself.... I hate to put the I in there since its his life.... and we live in a state (VT), where to be in compliance we need to submit a curriculum and assessment. How we have done this is through brainstorming at the beginning of the year about what he might like to be doing that fits with the states categories, books he wants to read, history he is curious about, etc... what he already does... He is in a band which which is a big part of our "curriculum" (writing, playing and listening to music, audio recording, managing the band...promotion, publicity, etc.) and does community service ( and mischief making). If anything end up being different than what we initially reported we just say that interests changed and list what he did do. There are things he wants to learn that I help him with, like how to use design programs and geometry. There are things that he wants to learn that I help him find resources for. We do things as a family, travel... I can be more specific if you'd like.
Jennifer
I am unschooling a high schooler, or he is educating himself.... I hate to put the I in there since its his life.... and we live in a state (VT), where to be in compliance we need to submit a curriculum and assessment. How we have done this is through brainstorming at the beginning of the year about what he might like to be doing that fits with the states categories, books he wants to read, history he is curious about, etc... what he already does... He is in a band which which is a big part of our "curriculum" (writing, playing and listening to music, audio recording, managing the band...promotion, publicity, etc.) and does community service ( and mischief making). If anything end up being different than what we initially reported we just say that interests changed and list what he did do. There are things he wants to learn that I help him with, like how to use design programs and geometry. There are things that he wants to learn that I help him find resources for. We do things as a family, travel... I can be more specific if you'd like.
Jennifer
----- Original Message -----
From: April Morris<mailto:klkb624@...>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] unschooling a high schooler
I am unschooling two high school age kids.(My oldest is no longer high
school age, but that hasn't changed what we do. She takes classes
at a local college now. I don't do anything different than I did before. I
help them do the activities and things they want to do. I spend time with
them. I make home a great place to be and a great place to bring friends to.
I don't 'count' anything for school because we are not doing school.
On 1/11/06, dmcml5 <dmcml5@...<mailto:dmcml5@...>> wrote:
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> Hello-
> Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
> do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
> need some help.
> Thank You
> Michelle
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~April
Mom to Kate-19, Lisa-16, Karl-14, & Ben-10.
*REACH Homeschool Grp, an inclusive group in Oakland County
www.reachhomeschool.com<http://www.reachhomeschool.com/>
* Michigan Unschoolers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/michigan_unschoolers/<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/michigan_unschoolers/>
*Check out Chuck's art www.artkunst23.com<http://www.artkunst23.com/>
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Gandalf the Grey
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Sandra Dodd
On Jan 10, 2006, at 11:01 PM, dmcml5 wrote:
There are differences in having a "high schooler" who was never in
school, or who has been out a long time, and in beginning to unschool
with someone who has been in school. Tell us a little more.
in the meantime, though, look here:
http://sandradodd.com/teens
http://sandradodd.com/videogames
just to get some ideas of what parents of teens have discussed before.
Also, very important, http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
At first, you do nothing. And then nothing turns into curiosity and
interest, but you should expect it to take several months.
You don't "count it for school" in the way that you are "getting high
school credit," but there are other ways to look at it. If the child
is "nearly through" with high school, you might want to look at
classes online or at a community college for a child who is
academically leaning (who likes that sort of thing) and really avoid
classes and textbooks if you have a child who does NOT like that sort
of thing.
After you've read some of that, if you want feedback on your
particular situation, give us a little more detail. (Not lots, just
some.)
Sandra
> Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you=======================
> do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
> need some help.
There are differences in having a "high schooler" who was never in
school, or who has been out a long time, and in beginning to unschool
with someone who has been in school. Tell us a little more.
in the meantime, though, look here:
http://sandradodd.com/teens
http://sandradodd.com/videogames
just to get some ideas of what parents of teens have discussed before.
Also, very important, http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
At first, you do nothing. And then nothing turns into curiosity and
interest, but you should expect it to take several months.
You don't "count it for school" in the way that you are "getting high
school credit," but there are other ways to look at it. If the child
is "nearly through" with high school, you might want to look at
classes online or at a community college for a child who is
academically leaning (who likes that sort of thing) and really avoid
classes and textbooks if you have a child who does NOT like that sort
of thing.
After you've read some of that, if you want feedback on your
particular situation, give us a little more detail. (Not lots, just
some.)
Sandra
wifetovegman2002
--- In [email protected], "dmcml5" <dmcml5@y...>
wrote:
Andrew (14) loves to cook, watches a lot of Food Network and Discovery
and History Channel and SciFi, plays video games and computer games,
and reads about 10 books a week.
Sarah (16) works at Ben & Jerrys about 12 hours a week, sometimes
more, and she goes to art class once a week, and she loves to role
play and surf the internet, hang out with her friends, go to movies,
read books, and play volleyball whenever she can.
~Susan in VA
wifetovegman
wrote:
>Let's see...I'm living with two teenage unschoolers right now.
> Hello-
> Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
> do with them?
Andrew (14) loves to cook, watches a lot of Food Network and Discovery
and History Channel and SciFi, plays video games and computer games,
and reads about 10 books a week.
Sarah (16) works at Ben & Jerrys about 12 hours a week, sometimes
more, and she goes to art class once a week, and she loves to role
play and surf the internet, hang out with her friends, go to movies,
read books, and play volleyball whenever she can.
~Susan in VA
wifetovegman
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: dmcml5 <dmcml5@...>
Hello-
Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
need some help.
-=-=-=-
I have a 17 year old (he'll be 18 in 11 days!!!!). But I have no "high schooler"---he's just 17! <g>
He's VERY busy. He has three parttime jobs. He drums mostly---with an African drumming troups, a Scottish
pipe and drum corps, his own band, and at local bars with the house bands. Drumming "counts" as art, music,
composition, reading, history, social studies, math---in fact it goes above and beyond what is required by
our state! And that's if he didn't do *anything* other than drum!
He plays with his brother, helps out around the house, takes care of his car, volunteers in the community,
is engaged in art. He's waaay more active in things than his schooled friends, who avoid anything other
than the tiny bit of schoolwork they can't avoid.
He travels a LOT: last year he went to Albuquerque to visit friends, Bonaroo music festival, Scotland
with my dad, Florida to see friends and to Disneyworld, West Virginia to Not Back To School Camp, St
Louis to the Live and Learn Conference, Kentucky to visit a friend---probably somewhere else I can't
recall right now. We have a VERY busy schedule this year too! There aren't many free weekends left!
Unschooling means living a rich life---Doing Things, Being Present, Sucking that Marrow!
I can "count" everything!
~KellyKelly LovejoyConference CoordinatorLive and Learn Unschooling Conferencehttp://liveandlearnconference.org
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From: dmcml5 <dmcml5@...>
Hello-
Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
need some help.
-=-=-=-
I have a 17 year old (he'll be 18 in 11 days!!!!). But I have no "high schooler"---he's just 17! <g>
He's VERY busy. He has three parttime jobs. He drums mostly---with an African drumming troups, a Scottish
pipe and drum corps, his own band, and at local bars with the house bands. Drumming "counts" as art, music,
composition, reading, history, social studies, math---in fact it goes above and beyond what is required by
our state! And that's if he didn't do *anything* other than drum!
He plays with his brother, helps out around the house, takes care of his car, volunteers in the community,
is engaged in art. He's waaay more active in things than his schooled friends, who avoid anything other
than the tiny bit of schoolwork they can't avoid.
He travels a LOT: last year he went to Albuquerque to visit friends, Bonaroo music festival, Scotland
with my dad, Florida to see friends and to Disneyworld, West Virginia to Not Back To School Camp, St
Louis to the Live and Learn Conference, Kentucky to visit a friend---probably somewhere else I can't
recall right now. We have a VERY busy schedule this year too! There aren't many free weekends left!
Unschooling means living a rich life---Doing Things, Being Present, Sucking that Marrow!
I can "count" everything!
~KellyKelly LovejoyConference CoordinatorLive and Learn Unschooling Conferencehttp://liveandlearnconference.org
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Kathleen and David Gehrke
Thanks Kelly for the great description an unschooling
life!
Kathleen
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> I have a 17 year old (he'll be 18 in 11 days!!!!).
> But I have no "high schooler"---he's just 17! <g>
> He's VERY busy. He has three parttime jobs. He drums
> mostly---with an African drumming troups, a Scottish
>
> pipe and drum corps, his own band, and at local bars
> with the house bands. Drumming "counts" as art,
> music,
> composition, reading, history, social studies,
> math---in fact it goes above and beyond what is
> required by
> our state! And that's if he didn't do *anything*
> other than drum!
>
> He plays with his brother, helps out around the
> house, takes care of his car, volunteers in the
> community,
> is engaged in art. He's waaay more active in things
> than his schooled friends, who avoid anything other
> than the tiny bit of schoolwork they can't avoid.
>
> He travels a LOT: last year he went to Albuquerque
> to visit friends, Bonaroo music festival, Scotland
> with my dad, Florida to see friends and to
> Disneyworld, West Virginia to Not Back To School
> Camp, St
> Louis to the Live and Learn Conference, Kentucky to
> visit a friend---probably somewhere else I can't
> recall right now. We have a VERY busy schedule this
> year too! There aren't many free weekends left!
>
> Unschooling means living a rich life---Doing Things,
> Being Present, Sucking that Marrow!
>
> I can "count" everything!
> ~KellyKelly LovejoyConference CoordinatorLive and
> Learn Unschooling
> Conferencehttp://liveandlearnconference.org
>
>
>
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> removed]
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In a message dated 1/11/2006 4:31:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
My son is 16. Some of the things he's been doing lately:
*He has a part-time job as a Coordinator of Religious Education at a
Unitarian Universalist church in our town. (It's actually a position, sort of, that
I held most of his earlier years.)
*Last semester he took an online college course in Marine Biology. This
semester he's taking one online course through the same college (University of
Califonia at Dominguez Hill) on Theatre, Television, and Film, and another at
Harvard University Extension in Bioethics.
*He spends many hours a week working on music, since he'd like to be a
professional musician. That means he takes guitar lessons and voice lessons each
week, practices singing and playing, sometimes performs, writes songs,
practices with two bands, etc.
*He spends lots of time online doing many, many things: chatting and
e-mailing with unschooled friends all over the country, general "discovering",
reading ubersite, playing online games, perusing craigslist for music equipment,
etc......
*He hangs out with his parents relaxing and watching tv most evenings for a
few hours.
*He is starting a business doing sound for events with another unschooled
friend. They started out last week putting together an impressive business plan.
*He has an unschooled girlfriend who lives in Arkansas (They met at the last
couple of Live and Learn Unschooling Conferences), so he spends lots of late
nights on the phone with her.
*He reads a lot, plays a lot, etc.
Okay, reading this is overwhelming me...I'm tired just looking at it.
But....because he doesn't go to high school, he can do all this AND have lots of
time to just laze around whenever he wants!
Kathryn
Come to the Northeast Unschooling Conference, Memorial Day Weekend, May
26-28, 2006 in Peabody, Massachusetts! www.NortheastUnschoolingConference.com
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[email protected] writes:
> Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you*************************
> do with them
My son is 16. Some of the things he's been doing lately:
*He has a part-time job as a Coordinator of Religious Education at a
Unitarian Universalist church in our town. (It's actually a position, sort of, that
I held most of his earlier years.)
*Last semester he took an online college course in Marine Biology. This
semester he's taking one online course through the same college (University of
Califonia at Dominguez Hill) on Theatre, Television, and Film, and another at
Harvard University Extension in Bioethics.
*He spends many hours a week working on music, since he'd like to be a
professional musician. That means he takes guitar lessons and voice lessons each
week, practices singing and playing, sometimes performs, writes songs,
practices with two bands, etc.
*He spends lots of time online doing many, many things: chatting and
e-mailing with unschooled friends all over the country, general "discovering",
reading ubersite, playing online games, perusing craigslist for music equipment,
etc......
*He hangs out with his parents relaxing and watching tv most evenings for a
few hours.
*He is starting a business doing sound for events with another unschooled
friend. They started out last week putting together an impressive business plan.
*He has an unschooled girlfriend who lives in Arkansas (They met at the last
couple of Live and Learn Unschooling Conferences), so he spends lots of late
nights on the phone with her.
*He reads a lot, plays a lot, etc.
Okay, reading this is overwhelming me...I'm tired just looking at it.
But....because he doesn't go to high school, he can do all this AND have lots of
time to just laze around whenever he wants!
Kathryn
Come to the Northeast Unschooling Conference, Memorial Day Weekend, May
26-28, 2006 in Peabody, Massachusetts! www.NortheastUnschoolingConference.com
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[email protected]
My daughter is 16 and my son is 12. She was asked earlier tonight.."so you have never been to any high school?" She said..."I went to first grade." She didn't elaborate about that but did start talking about some other things. The guy asking is selling us his house and is probably 27 or so...went to an IB program for high school, B.S. from a major university, then a pilot in the military in Afganistan and now is starting to work on his Masters in Electrical Engineering. I could tell he didn't know what to think of this very articulate young women who only went to first grade and was quite comfortable holding her own in a conversation with him.
He asked what we do and I told him the condensed version....read, play games, go the library, go to museums and to the beach. He didn't quite know what to make of us.
The more involved version would have been...We've moved across the country twice in the past 2 months so top on our list would be travel! :-) In addition to those 4000 miles, she also went to St. Louis for Live and Learn and to West Virginia for Not Back to School Camp. She has both schooled and unschooled friends that she keeps in touch with through hanging out at the house, e-mails and late night IM's. She plays guitar and piano, sings and takes voice lessons, reads, does art projects, writes and even wrote a short novel a couple of months ago that she published,
watches "House" with me on TV, loves to photograph people, bakes a perfect pie, makes bread, roasts chili, is almost ready to take her driver's test to get her license, makes lists and does everything on her list every day, laughs so hard telling a funny story that she falls on the floor. Does any of that "count" for high school? Probably not but our lives don't need anything to count for high school.
College is part of her future plans as well as more travel. She is considering some community college courses this next year....and kickboxing and learning how to develop her own pictures ......and going to Vermont for NBTSC and to Kentucky to visit friends. Her life is busy and happy. She isn't a high schooler...she is just Brenna living her life knowing that she can do anything she wants to do not only today but with her future.
Gail
-----Original Message-----
From: dmcml5 <dmcml5@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:01:41 -0000
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] unschooling a high schooler
Hello-
Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
need some help.
Thank You
Michelle
"List Posting Policies" are provided in the files area of this group.
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He asked what we do and I told him the condensed version....read, play games, go the library, go to museums and to the beach. He didn't quite know what to make of us.
The more involved version would have been...We've moved across the country twice in the past 2 months so top on our list would be travel! :-) In addition to those 4000 miles, she also went to St. Louis for Live and Learn and to West Virginia for Not Back to School Camp. She has both schooled and unschooled friends that she keeps in touch with through hanging out at the house, e-mails and late night IM's. She plays guitar and piano, sings and takes voice lessons, reads, does art projects, writes and even wrote a short novel a couple of months ago that she published,
watches "House" with me on TV, loves to photograph people, bakes a perfect pie, makes bread, roasts chili, is almost ready to take her driver's test to get her license, makes lists and does everything on her list every day, laughs so hard telling a funny story that she falls on the floor. Does any of that "count" for high school? Probably not but our lives don't need anything to count for high school.
College is part of her future plans as well as more travel. She is considering some community college courses this next year....and kickboxing and learning how to develop her own pictures ......and going to Vermont for NBTSC and to Kentucky to visit friends. Her life is busy and happy. She isn't a high schooler...she is just Brenna living her life knowing that she can do anything she wants to do not only today but with her future.
Gail
-----Original Message-----
From: dmcml5 <dmcml5@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:01:41 -0000
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] unschooling a high schooler
Hello-
Just wondering how many are unschooling a high schooler? What do you
do with them? How do you "count it for school"? Just curious, and
need some help.
Thank You
Michelle
"List Posting Policies" are provided in the files area of this group.
Visit the Unschooling website and message boards: <http://www.unschooling.info>
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