Leslie

I've always been basically an un-schooler but with my first I was more worried about not giving him the information he might need. To compromise I insisted that he keep a daily journal and we did the Kumon math program. When he decided he wanted to go to school at 14, grade 9 level, he had no problem. He lasted for 20 credits worth, but now that he has enough friends, he'd rather work for money.
Leslie


From: cleopatra@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Help - Pagan Flavored Science/Health Curriculum


Hey all, Jacli here :)

Okay, here goes my plea for help: We are both
non-religious, I have
very strong pagan leanings. I am a very vehemently
inclined UNschooler.
My husband is an sweet, but slightly anal retentive
overachiever who insists on
workbook type curriculum so he can track our dd's progress.
We tried compromising
by getting the Life Pac series of workbooks (as recommended
by a homeschooling
friend in NH).

It's killing me. Every other paragraph lists a scripture
and this stuff is so jam packed
with dogma even the child is a-moanin! (For ex. in a
chapter on hygiene in the Health
book they spent 4 pages examining a chapter in Ephesians
that talks about obeying
your parents.)

I hope I have not offended anyone with this but the fact is
I'm not looking for bible
classes. I would gleefully go back to ordering from
Carolina, but dh is also right that
the cost is AMAZING. I just want something that helps her
focus on getting the job done, learning
about health, provoking discussions and more learning and
giving dh the workbook
type recording he is looking for. Is this just too tall an
order?

Any suggestions or thoughts? Anybody?

Thanks, Jacli


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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Vicki A. Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elsa Haas" <ElsaHaas@...>

>Stanley Milgram's Obedience
>to Authority, which describes the horrifying >results of experiments used to
>see how far people will go in obeying, would >help him start to question this
>goal.

I am soooooooo pleased to see this book referenced. It made a big impact on me
years ago. Some of it was dry reading and I was always amused by their
assumptions of what would have happened had the "victims" been women or children
(I *think* the experiments were indeed run that way later with the horrifying
conclusion that most were even MORE willing to inflict pain on those), but I
thought the commentary was very revealing.

I tried to get professor friends to incorporate it in their classes but to
little avail. Did it finally become popular? Is it still around?

Vicki
P.S.: How Children Fail has ALWAYS been my favorite of JHs books. Instance
after instance of observations of what "really" goes on.....