Julie Bogart <[email protected]>

Sandra said:
<<<<Will this C+ from
a high school stand out as proof that homeschool hasn't
educated him enough when we apply to colleges? Am I
overcompensating in my head by saying he's actually smart
when really he isn't because the tests are proving it?
>>

<<THIS IS SCARY.
This is not an unschooling attitude, if you're thinking that tests
scores
prove or disprove "smart.">>

Well I know that in my knower but I needed to get "support." Isn't
that what this group is for?

I don't want to think that way. I'm trying to dump it. I need to hear it
about, oh, 100 more times, perhaps. Isn't that the purpose of this
list? To repeat yourselves to newbies like us over and over
again? <bwg>

<<<<Have your kids taken four years of math for college prep?
>>

<<I'm surprised you would honestly ask unschoolers that. NO.>>

Sandra, I didn't know. I guess I thought if some kids felt they
needed to get prepared for college in computers, they may be
doing math but by their own initiative. Grace Llewellyn's books
point that out and she recommends Saxon, of all things (which
my kids hate). But I figured some of you may have done it in
creative ways hence my question.

<<Did you take four years of math before you went to college?
New Mexico
requires two. I took ONE. I got a degree at 21.>>

I took two and a half years at which point my teacher told me to
quit so I wouldn't ruin my GPA (which was really high, but I was
miserable in math). I was aimed at theater arts, however, not
technology.

<<Is there someone there who could dash cold water on you
maybe?>>

LOL Okay, I'll go take a cold shower.

I just need to know that I can come here for suggestions and
reminders.

I do appreciate the help everyone's offered.

Julie B (splashes cold water on face and watches it freeze in the
below twenty weather)

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In a message dated 1/28/03 10:07:23 AM, julie@... writes:

<< Well I know that in my knower but I needed to get "support." Isn't
that what this group is for? >>

No.
I don't think it's a "support group," technically speaking.

But even if it is, I don't consider supporting people in NOT unschooling to
be anything I personally want to do!

I want to support you to turn away from the school and see your children in
the light of the lack of school. <g>



Sandra