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In a message dated 1/17/2003 4:37:43 PM Central Standard Time,
love-it-here@... writes:

> This brings a thought to my mind. I have noticed that the teachers I
> know, both personally and casually, who defend the public school system
> to what seems their death, all send their children to private schools.
> What they claim is appropriate for the general populous, just isn't right
> for their own children. Their loyalty to the school system always ends
> with their own children. Are they just lying to themselves trying to
> justify their positions? Just an observation and me pondering again.
> Wende

One item of thought here is that PS teachers have invested
a lot of time and money to get their education, and have a hard
time understanding the concept of parents wanting to homeschool
their children without any teaching degree's. Especially myself,
homeschooling an LD student. The unsaid word I have come
to know very well is un-qualified.

How is it than that we have alot fo teachers on the unschooling
list , how did they get here? I would be interested to hear their
thoughts, and what would their responses would be to being
questioned about homeschooing.

Linda L.



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In a message dated 1/17/03 3:57:21 PM, encadia@... writes:

<< How is it than that we have alot fo teachers on the unschooling
list , how did they get here? I would be interested to hear their
thoughts, and what would their responses would be to being
questioned about homeschooing. >>

I don't know if there are any or many currently-employed-as-teachers people
here. Might be some.

It was fairly common where I grew up for teachers to have their kids in the
parochial school. A very Catholic town, it was. But that ended after 8th
grade.

A friend of mine was in private school, but when his dad wanted to be
superintendent, he put him in the regular school. Cool for me, because we're
still friends about fifty or a hundred years later. But his best friends at
the time were going to McCurdy (a protestant mission school in Santa Cruz,
New Mexico) and he couldn't go there because the school board wouldn't think
his dad was being supportive of the public schools.

Sandra