Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Doom and gloom/Sandra
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In a message dated 4/6/01 6:28:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:
<< They're at the unschooling
stage, and I don't think that's a good place to tell horror-anecdotes of
school and its effect on particular kids you don't even know.
aspects. I want to say that I didn't agree with the statement that seemed
like a personal attack on you, Sandra, because I have always found that is
how respectful debates over issues turn into angry arguments with little
positive coming out of them.
I missed some of the posts because I had been leary of opening the
emails that showed as some kind of attachments on my computer but there are
so many of them on this list now that I finally just started opening them
yesterday. I didn't know if this would make me more likely to pick up a
virus because AOL always posts a warning before I open them.
Anyway, I was just thinking about something this morning relating to
what you just said. My sister just had twins, a boy and a girl, in January
and was telling me that she doesn't know if she'll homeschool, that it
depends upon whether the schools really make her mad. So I was thinking,
realizing that I no longer homeschool because the public schools were such a
disallusionment to me. That is definitely what initially brought me this
direction but I now homeschool/unschool because I can't imagine us living any
other way. This just feels so normal to me and my family. I unschool
because it's wonderful and not because the schools aren't. This may not seem
like an important distinction but it is a different feeling within me. It
used to be that if friends asked why we homeschool, I would explain why I was
down on the schools and didn't want my kids there. Now, the first thing that
would come to my head, I think, is that it enables us to live in a way that
we really enjoy, lets the kids grow and learn in such healthy ways, etc.
I think for those that come out of the school systems, this is something
that takes time because for a while, you are pretty focused on what was wrong
with those systems and the bad experiences your kids had there. Also, my
parents both work for public schools so I am still sometimes reeling from
things they tell me that go on there. But there is something more positive
and peaceful about coming TO something, rather than running FROM something.
Lucy in Calif.
SandraDodd@... writes:
<< They're at the unschooling
stage, and I don't think that's a good place to tell horror-anecdotes of
school and its effect on particular kids you don't even know.
>>I didn't read the beginning of all this...only the environmental
aspects. I want to say that I didn't agree with the statement that seemed
like a personal attack on you, Sandra, because I have always found that is
how respectful debates over issues turn into angry arguments with little
positive coming out of them.
I missed some of the posts because I had been leary of opening the
emails that showed as some kind of attachments on my computer but there are
so many of them on this list now that I finally just started opening them
yesterday. I didn't know if this would make me more likely to pick up a
virus because AOL always posts a warning before I open them.
Anyway, I was just thinking about something this morning relating to
what you just said. My sister just had twins, a boy and a girl, in January
and was telling me that she doesn't know if she'll homeschool, that it
depends upon whether the schools really make her mad. So I was thinking,
realizing that I no longer homeschool because the public schools were such a
disallusionment to me. That is definitely what initially brought me this
direction but I now homeschool/unschool because I can't imagine us living any
other way. This just feels so normal to me and my family. I unschool
because it's wonderful and not because the schools aren't. This may not seem
like an important distinction but it is a different feeling within me. It
used to be that if friends asked why we homeschool, I would explain why I was
down on the schools and didn't want my kids there. Now, the first thing that
would come to my head, I think, is that it enables us to live in a way that
we really enjoy, lets the kids grow and learn in such healthy ways, etc.
I think for those that come out of the school systems, this is something
that takes time because for a while, you are pretty focused on what was wrong
with those systems and the bad experiences your kids had there. Also, my
parents both work for public schools so I am still sometimes reeling from
things they tell me that go on there. But there is something more positive
and peaceful about coming TO something, rather than running FROM something.
Lucy in Calif.
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In a message dated 4/6/01 10:45:12 AM, LASaliger@... writes:
<< But there is something more positive
and peaceful about coming TO something, rather than running FROM something.
there! I don't want school in my kids' lives any more than it naturally
occurs (like going to friends' plays, or the 8th grade "graduation" to high
school, or the very occasional such thing).
Sandra
<< But there is something more positive
and peaceful about coming TO something, rather than running FROM something.
>>And once you're safely there, revisiting the old place is... going back
there! I don't want school in my kids' lives any more than it naturally
occurs (like going to friends' plays, or the 8th grade "graduation" to high
school, or the very occasional such thing).
Sandra