Robyn Carter

Hi all:
I need some perspectives, please! My 13yod, after being unschooled her whole
life, decided to try middle school last year. She started in October,
stayed 5 days, said "It's interfering with my life..." and stopped. One girl
that she met there has called sometimes. Jayme and her got together to go
shopping yesterday. Now, Jme wants to try middle school again, in March,
after she goes down to visits friends in February, flying back and forth
unaccompanied! Help! There has been so much change this year-we moved 1000
miles in April, she's in dance, 4h, the yearbook committee, 2 youth in
philanthropy projects, and she baby-sits and works for an elderly neighbor.
I think she has a cool life with out adding #@$%&*! school to it.
I also think my comfort level has to have something to do with the equation.
Let's hear what ya'll think...
Robyn

Mary Bianco

>From: "Robyn Carter" <rcarter@...>

>Let's hear what ya'll think...
>Robyn>>


Well Robyn, I can't offer any help but I'm curious what some others would do
or has done as well. I use to think that I would never let my kids go to
school, but after being on the list, I've changed my mind. Thinking that if
they really wanted to bad enough and were aware of what it entailed, I would
let them try. Now you have brought up another good point. How many times
should they keep trying? I know the back and forth would be a lot for me.

Tara has a friend from grade school yet that really wants to attend the
private school Tara does. She does sometimes but when her parents run out of
money, she attends the local high school. She goes to public school for a
couple of weeks and then back at the private school for a couple of weeks.
This has been going on for 2 years. I honestly don't know how she does it.


Mary B


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Tia Leschke

> I need some perspectives, please! My 13yod, after being unschooled her
whole
> life, decided to try middle school last year. She started in October,
> stayed 5 days, said "It's interfering with my life..." and stopped. One
girl
> that she met there has called sometimes. Jayme and her got together to go
> shopping yesterday. Now, Jme wants to try middle school again, in March,
> after she goes down to visits friends in February, flying back and forth
> unaccompanied! Help! There has been so much change this year-we moved 1000
> miles in April, she's in dance, 4h, the yearbook committee, 2 youth in
> philanthropy projects, and she baby-sits and works for an elderly
neighbor.
> I think she has a cool life with out adding #@$%&*! school to it.
> I also think my comfort level has to have something to do with the
equation.
> Let's hear what ya'll think...

Lets see. She stayed 5 days the last time. My guess is that she'll stay
even fewer days this time. Like she said. It interfered with her life.
She's probably just forgotten *how much* it interfered last time. I'd let
her do it and hope that she gets at least one of the kind of teacher my
granddaughter got when she tried school for a week. That teacher was
perfect for our purposes (convincing her that school wasn't for her).
Tia

Have a Nice Day!

This must be a symptom of the age.

My daughter went to 5th grade for a few days and came home. Then she did cyberschool. Then she quit bec. she wanted to homeschool. Now she wants to go back to school. I am making her wait until the beginning of next year because the honest truth is she really does not know what she wants to do (yet).

In the meantime, I am talking with her about her friends' idea of fun being different than hers because they have so much less freedom to start with.

Kristen

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From: Robyn Carter
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Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Can't seem to make up her mind...


Hi all:
I need some perspectives, please! My 13yod, after being unschooled her whole
life, decided to try middle school last year. She started in October,
stayed 5 days, said "It's interfering with my life..." and stopped. One girl
that she met there has called sometimes. Jayme and her got together to go
shopping yesterday. Now, Jme wants to try middle school again, in March,
after she goes down to visits friends in February, flying back and forth
unaccompanied! Help! There has been so much change this year-we moved 1000
miles in April, she's in dance, 4h, the yearbook committee, 2 youth in
philanthropy projects, and she baby-sits and works for an elderly neighbor.
I think she has a cool life with out adding #@$%&*! school to it.
I also think my comfort level has to have something to do with the equation.
Let's hear what ya'll think...
Robyn



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In a message dated 1/21/03 11:21:37 AM, rcarter@... writes:

<< I think she has a cool life with out adding #@$%&*! school to it.
I also think my comfort level has to have something to do with the equation.
Let's hear what ya'll think... >>

http://sandradodd.com/schoolchoice

that's one thing, something I wrote about my sister's kids being in and out
of school, and her attitude.

Sandra