Luz Shosie and Ned Vare

on 8/9/02 8:02 AM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

This is part of a thread from two weeks ago that I didn't answer:

I had written:
>> Unschoolers are in the same war as all other homeschoolers. I don't think
>> that is Off Topic at all.
The "war" is the one in which homeschoolers are trying to keep our rights,
while school system employees and certain politicians are working to
eliminate those rights.
> Tia wrote (from Canada):
> I'm not in a war. One of many reasons why I left the U.S. is the tendency
> there to turn everything into a war. (war on poverty, war on drugs,
> etc.) I'm really a pretty peaceable person.

Ned responds:
We are all "pretty peacable persons," but when our rights are threatened,
there is sometimes no option but to act in our own defense. Otherwise, we
can kiss our rights good-bye.

"If you don't know your rights, you have none." --- (can't find the author
of that)

Ned Vare

Tia Leschke

>
>I had written:
> >> Unschoolers are in the same war as all other homeschoolers. I don't think
> >> that is Off Topic at all.
>The "war" is the one in which homeschoolers are trying to keep our rights,
>while school system employees and certain politicians are working to
>eliminate those rights.

Actually, I think the HSLDA does at least as much to threaten our rights as
school system employees and politicians.


>Ned responds:
>We are all "pretty peacable persons," but when our rights are threatened,
>there is sometimes no option but to act in our own defense. Otherwise, we
>can kiss our rights good-bye.

I think we probably disagree as to how much our rights are threatened.


>"If you don't know your rights, you have none." --- (can't find the author
>of that)

Well, I know what mine are.
Tia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
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On Vancouver Island