Pam Hartley

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>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 1359
>Date: Sun, Aug 12, 2001, 2:31 AM
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>>If I say "hey Kyson, come here with mom and do this sheet,
> okay?", I can't be an unschooler??? to me, that is a far cry from
> forced, scheduled work. They are not forced, not stressed. <
>
> I have to agree. My son and daughter love to do workbook pages, but I
> certainly don't sit them down at 9 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday for an
> hour of 3+4= It is just another aspect of learning, and why not? We
> consult textbooks, encyclopedias, maps, use crayons, glue, paper,
> scissors-all very much 'school' items.


The point is not the workbooks, the textbooks, the encyclopedias, the maps,
the crayons, the glue, the paper, the scissors.

The point is, what happens if the answer to "Do this sheet, okay?" is, "No,
thanks."

There's where the rubber (or the unschooler) meets the road.

Pam