Paula Sjogerman

on 1/31/03 9:10 AM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

> I guess I know that the percentage of people who radically unschool is
>> small. But would there be an area of the country where it might be easier
>> to do it?
>>

Illinois - especially the Chicago area with its richness of resources!

Paula, Chicago fan

athom <[email protected]>

--- In [email protected], Paula Sjogerman
<sjogy@s...> wrote:
> on 1/31/03 9:10 AM, [email protected] at
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > I guess I know that the percentage of people who radically
unschool is
> >> small. But would there be an area of the country where it
might be easier
> >> to do it?
> >>
>
> Illinois - especially the Chicago area with its richness of
resources!
>
> Paula, Chicago fan

Okay. I admit as a relative newbie relocated to this area for
reasons other than home education I am not a big fan
of "Cincinnattitude," but as far as an area that is rich in self-
directed learning resources, I'd put the Greater Cincinnati Metro
Area way up there. A large tri-state metropolitan area with
everything and anything available, a good deal of it for FREE! One
drawback....no decent mass transit, so mom is primarily chauffeur.
Oh, well. I get to enjoy everything, too!

Norma

Rachel Ann

Having been born and raised in Cincinnati, you are so right! Art museum,
science museum, botanical gardens (love the waterfall!!!) the new science
museum in the old train station(and isn't that place just the best!!!) great
libraries, great zoo, great park....and they even have kosher resturants
now!!! Sometimes I wish I had never left... And nothing is that far apart...


be well,
Rachel Ann



Okay. I admit as a relative newbie relocated to this area for
reasons other than home education I am not a big fan
of "Cincinnattitude," but as far as an area that is rich in self-
directed learning resources, I'd put the Greater Cincinnati Metro
Area way up there. A large tri-state metropolitan area with
everything and anything available, a good deal of it for FREE! One
drawback....no decent mass transit, so mom is primarily chauffeur.
Oh, well. I get to enjoy everything, too!

Norma


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athom <[email protected]>

--- In [email protected], Rachel Ann <hindar@o...>
wrote:
<>Having been born and raised in Cincinnati, you are so right! Art
museum, science museum, botanical gardens (love the waterfall!!!) the
new science museum in the old train station(and isn't that place just
the best!!!) great libraries, great zoo, great park....and they even
have kosher resturants now!!! Sometimes I wish I had never left...
And nothing is that far apart...<>

Rachel Ann:

Dh and Dd both work at the Cincinnati Museum Center in the 1930s art
deco Union Terminal where they have an excellent youth volunteer
program, so we know it well. And we dash between there, Indiana
(Lawrenceburg) for skiing, Oxford (Miami University) for theatre and
workshops and lots of sports, Dayton (tons more great stuff to see
and do!), Newport (Kentucky, on the Ohio River front, with its new
big Aquarium that has a great teen volunteer program and lots of
development going on), Covington (also in KY with parks and museums
and great cheap art classes for home educators at the Baker Hunt
Foundation).

In northern Cincinnati Dd volunteers in an historical village,
studies dance and movement, piano, and trains for figure skating
daily. Both Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky are training up some of
the top up and coming figure skaters in the country. With a fine
fencing school and every imaginable kind of martial arts training
center, as well as its Olympic gymnastics training facilities,
several good climbing gyms, and all kinds of other physical fun
opportunities from unicycle training to horseback riding, period
dance troups, and more.

Dd attends lots of great teen activities and events at our branch
library (teen drama club, chess club, writing club, knitting club,
book club), and others in the large downtown library facility, too.
Known for its hills and beautiful parks Cincinnati provides a great
variety of volunteer opportunities and tons of nature related events
and activities, some especially for home educators. Not to mention
the symphony, the ballet, lots and lots of theatre, jazz, concerts of
all kinds, art galleries galore. We often go to great free concerts
or free theatre presentations where only a handful of people show
up! Go figure.

Cincinnati has a whole bunch of colleges and universities, too, with
all the great freebie learning and cultural opportunities that they
often sponsor. The new architecturally acclaimed Contemporary Art
Center downtown, the Taft Museum (currently undergoing renovation),
and the soon to open National Underground Railroad Museum will add
even more options for those who live in this area. And we also enjoy
a very active and diverse home education community with lots of
different home ed support groups, something for everyone. Okay,
that's it for my Cincinnati spiel. With all its other problems we
have thoroughly enjoyed mining its unschooling riches!

Norma