Re: List guidelines
Pam Hartley
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subject. They've already said (more than once, more than twice) that posters
who are coping with just having taken their children out of a bad situation
in a school are of course going to talk about that bad situation (and
should) in their process of heading toward healing, and in their process of
beginning unschooling.
There is a big (huge, galactic) difference between Jane Doe showing up on
the list with school tales of horror just done to her 10 year old twins and
how she's so glad to find unschooling and can we please help... versus what
seems to be your never-ending posts that either attempt to derail
non-school-bashing discussions to school-bashing discussions or complain
that you can't understand simple list parameters, simply stated, repeatedly.
Now, others here have given it as their opinion that you must know that
you're doing what you're doing. But I've seen people who can write pretty
well who are so caught up with their own voices that they truly do NOT hear
anyone else (similar to the way a pet Basset Hound will pick up a ground
scent and will not HEAR his owners calling him away from the busy road --
not a matter of ignoring, just a matter of physical limitation and strong
tracking drive).
So, if you really don't understand but are sincere in wanting to, I suggest
you email one of the moderators privately and try to get it worked out.
If, on the other hand, you are doing what others have said, intentionally
derailing conversations, then please stop it.
Pam "back from hiatus" Hartley
(And the more things change, the more they stay the same.)
>From: [email protected]The moderator(s) have been incredibly clear, concise and specific on this
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2286
>Date: Sun, Aug 25, 2002, 6:41 PM
>
> There are calls to "move on" but to what? Will they tell us? My own grief
> for my kids damaged by school has made me devote myself to helping others
> escape that same damage. Yes, my kids were hurt twenty years ago, but the
> schools are just as terrible today, if not worse, so how are we supposed to
> "move on"? Some people here seem terrified by the schools they have just
> escaped. Are they supposed to simply "move on"? How do you mean that?
subject. They've already said (more than once, more than twice) that posters
who are coping with just having taken their children out of a bad situation
in a school are of course going to talk about that bad situation (and
should) in their process of heading toward healing, and in their process of
beginning unschooling.
There is a big (huge, galactic) difference between Jane Doe showing up on
the list with school tales of horror just done to her 10 year old twins and
how she's so glad to find unschooling and can we please help... versus what
seems to be your never-ending posts that either attempt to derail
non-school-bashing discussions to school-bashing discussions or complain
that you can't understand simple list parameters, simply stated, repeatedly.
Now, others here have given it as their opinion that you must know that
you're doing what you're doing. But I've seen people who can write pretty
well who are so caught up with their own voices that they truly do NOT hear
anyone else (similar to the way a pet Basset Hound will pick up a ground
scent and will not HEAR his owners calling him away from the busy road --
not a matter of ignoring, just a matter of physical limitation and strong
tracking drive).
So, if you really don't understand but are sincere in wanting to, I suggest
you email one of the moderators privately and try to get it worked out.
If, on the other hand, you are doing what others have said, intentionally
derailing conversations, then please stop it.
Pam "back from hiatus" Hartley
(And the more things change, the more they stay the same.)