[email protected]

In a message dated 7/14/2002 7:46:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


>
> isn't 'damage' a much too harsh word for kids who had a disappointing
> or even traumatic experience?
> to me, 'damage' has the connotation that, no matter how much you try to
> 'fix' :
>
> 1) the child, they will always be somehow flawed.
> 2) the situation, there is always someone to blame.
>
> how can homeschooling be about fixing anything or anybody?

My oldest daughter, almost 18, feels like she was "damaged" by school - in
the sense that she has to overcome some conditioning that was sometimes
subtle, but also went surprisingly deep and pops up once in a while,
unexpectedly.She went through 4th grade.

National Home Education Network
http://www.NHEN.org
Changing the Way the World Sees Homeschooling!


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Olly Harari

--- PSoroosh@... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/14/2002 7:46:23 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>
> >
> > isn't 'damage' a much too harsh word for kids who
> had a disappointing
> > or even traumatic experience?
> > to me, 'damage' has the connotation that, no
> matter how much you try to
> > 'fix' :
> >
> > 1) the child, they will always be somehow flawed.
> > 2) the situation, there is always someone to
> blame.
> >
> > how can homeschooling be about fixing anything or
> anybody?
>
> My oldest daughter, almost 18, feels like she was
> "damaged" by school - in
> the sense that she has to overcome some conditioning
> that was sometimes
> subtle, but also went surprisingly deep and pops up
> once in a while,
> unexpectedly.She went through 4th grade.
>
> National Home Education Network
> http://www.NHEN.org
> Changing the Way the World Sees Homeschooling!
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>


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