Freedom Panther

KOLLEEN,

SOUNDS GREAT! Wish I had resources in my area. We have an only child (9
1/2 years) and it is difficult to find people to help us provide the things
Dylan is inspired to learn. Sometimes there simply isn't a bunch of time to
devote, but usually the problem is that we live so far away from just about
everything that, even if we do find something he's interested in, the travel
time to get there and back is often a deal-breaker for him.

My husband and I both work, so we are sometimes not "inspired" when Dylan
is, if you get my drift.

Good luck in your endeavors.

Freedompanther

>From: "kaydeecross" <Kolleen@...>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Unschooling Schools WASRe: JUST JOINED! What
>do you know about NATURAL MATH???
>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:54:35 -0000
>
>--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "Lynda" <lurine@s...> wrote:
> > Even Sudbury's have mandatory attendance rules and since they are
> > democractic institutions, they really wouldn't qualify as "pure"
>unschooling
> > but rather eclectic or relaxed style schools.
> >
> > If everyone in your house sat down and voted on what to
>do "unschooling"
> > wise and 3 out of 5 voted to do workbooks on a daily basis, you
>wouldn't
> > call it unschooling. so why call a school that operates on that
>basis an
> > "unschooling" school?
>
>
>Attendance is based upon state laws. Just like my son is required to
>attend homeschool in NY according to state law required hours. I
>can't avoid it at home anymore than they can avoid it in their
>institution.
>
>The democratic process doesn't mean that the ones that want to do
>workbooks can make the others do it by voting on it. It means that
>the budget, the staff (there are no teachers) members are voted in or
>out, and other non-cirruculum stuff is voted on. They also use a
>judicial committee to handle complaints between students. So in
>essence, its the non-coercive parenting type things that are
>democratic. The cirriculum is not. Each child is allowed to pursue
>their own paths. If a bunch of them get-together because they all
>want to learn something like basket-weaving, then they can vote it
>into the budget to hire a bonafide basket-weaver to teach them.
>
>The age mixing, the ability to have many kinds of adults around of
>with differing abilities to help you when you want to pursue
>something is, in my opinion, far better than unschooling at home.
>
>SV has a basic set of principles, then each school develops it's
>own 'flavour' in addition to the principles that allow them to be
>called Sudbury.
>
>regards,
>kolleen
>


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