noctilucentaurora

What can happen in a span of time: CNN reported that over 150,000
natural learners comprise around 1.1mil homeschoolers. I wrote an
English paper about autodidacticism for college and my professor who
had never heard of unschooling became interested.

MWSS

Sandra Dodd

On Feb 16, 2006, at 5:41 PM, noctilucentaurora wrote:

> CNN reported that over 150,000
> natural learners comprise around 1.1mil homeschoolers.


Rephrase please. It doesn't make sense as is.

queenjane555

> On Feb 16, 2006, at 5:41 PM, noctilucentaurora wrote:
>
> > CNN reported that over 150,000
> > natural learners comprise around 1.1mil homeschoolers.
>
>
> Rephrase please. It doesn't make sense as is.

I assume the poster meant that there are 1.1 million homeschoolers in
the US and of those, over 150,000 are unschoolers.

I didnt realize the numbers were so high. I guess i always assume that
we *know* all the unschoolers from this list!;o)

Katherine

Deb

--- In [email protected], "queenjane555"
<queenjane555@...> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 16, 2006, at 5:41 PM, noctilucentaurora wrote:
> >
> > > CNN reported that over 150,000
> > > natural learners comprise around 1.1mil homeschoolers.
> >
> >
> > Rephrase please. It doesn't make sense as is.
>
> I assume the poster meant that there are 1.1 million homeschoolers
>in
> the US and of those, over 150,000 are unschoolers.
>
> I didnt realize the numbers were so high. I guess i always assume
>that
> we *know* all the unschoolers from this list!;o)
>
> Katherine
>
Actually 1.1 million homeschoolers is a really OLD number -
something like 1995 or 1998 or whatever - it's actually grown a lot
since then. And too that's a fairly inaccurate number because of the
number of states that don't require registering or anything so they
have to just approximate based on census numbers of about how many
kids there are, about how many are of school age (which varies by
state also), and how many are registered in public schools (private
schools often don't have to report to anyone either which further
skews the data).

--Deb

Sandra Dodd

On Feb 17, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Deb wrote:

> > I assume the poster meant that there are 1.1 million homeschoolers
> >in
> > the US and of those, over 150,000 are unschoolers.


When people are posting, though, they need to back up their
statements with sources and state clearly what they meant to say.

"Natural learners" is a term used, but not then defined for this
list. Does it mean just not buying a curriculum? Lots of unit-
studies families don't buy a curriculum.

I was just asking for a clearer statement, and maybe a link to a source.

Sandra