Luz Shosie and Ned Vare

on 8/12/02 6:50 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

>
> What if every parent who intended to and did send a child to kindergarten at
> 5 said "up until that time, we were unschoolers, but now it's time for him to
> go to school"?

That is how words have often been co-opted by our culture and often by
commercial interests.

For our purposes, unschooling includes an attitude and certain intentions
regarding schooling, I believe. Sandra's example exclude themselves because
of their intentions. Those who would say the above are either
misunderstanding the word "unschooling" (as seems to be common) or maybe
just want to sound "cool."

Ned Vare
Lead me not into temptation, I can find the way myself. -- Rita Mae Brown