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In a message dated 7/9/99 8:20:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jbecza@... writes:

<< My son is 6, we've been back here for about 3 years now. It's interesting
that with as many homeschoolers as there are in this area, that there aren't
many unschoolers. This will be our first year homeschooling, after a very
bad kindergarten year. I actually found out about homeschooling by trying
to find anti-homeschooling info for a case I'm working on... and lo and
behold I started to really like the idea of child-led learning and the
entire unschooling theory.>>




Jenn,

Wouldn't ya know......I have a girl 14 and you have a boy 6!! Couldn't be
more opposite!! Oh well!! I started homeschooling Valerie right after
Kindergarten also...we had been to a museum in Chicago and she was very
interested in Egypt (the museum had a great pyramid) so we bought lots of
books, etc. When she came back to school, she asked the teacher when they
could study Egypt and was told that "you aren't scheduled to be interested in
that until you're older"!!! We started with Calvert (which as you may or may
not know is veeerrrry structured) because I wasn't sure if I could do it
alone, but pretty soon we couldn't stand the one-lesson-a-day,
"school-at-home" stuff...that was not what I thought home education was going
to be like. I first learned about unschooling when I read Mary Pride's "Big
Book of Home Learning" (or something like that) and she described all the
different approaches to home education. Unschooling was one way and she
mentioned John Holt and his theories. I bought "Teach Your Own" and that was
it!!

What do you do??.....you mentioned working on a "case". You said you came
back to Jax...are you natives? We're all from Los Angeles with a
hubby-career stop in St. Louis, but we love it here...a lot like "home"
without all the problems of LA (so far....fingers crossed).

Sam