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In a message dated 2/6/03 5:44:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
shyrley.williams@... writes:

> What a terrible piece of work. Badly written, ungrammatical.
> If I had turned in something that badly written in High School my tutor
> would have made me re-write the whole thing.
> tsk tsk
>
> Shyrley
>

I agree.. It was very obvious it was a "student work" As far as
technically written reasearch papers go, it fails miserably. The student
cited works "for" unschooling, but only gave personal opinions "against"
unschooling.. There was absolutely no research cited to support her
conclusion. Landon has had to write 2 research papers for school. One was
the history of Vampirism.. and the last one was about King Arthur,.. .. Myth
VS Facts... both were immensely more interesting that this students work.

Teresa


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In a message dated 2/6/2003 5:44:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
shyrley.williams@... writes:

> What a terrible piece of work. Badly written, ungrammatical.
> If I had turned in something that badly written in High School my tutor
> would have made me re-write the whole thing.
> tsk tsk

I gave her a "C"---and I'd recommend a re-write. Too much repetition too. <g>

It's listed as a model paper. If this is representative of their "method", I
believe I would avoid them!

~K


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In a message dated 2/6/03 5:51:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
kbcdlovejo@... writes:

> It's listed as a model paper. If this is representative of their "method", I
>
> believe I would avoid them!
>
> ~K
>

Yeah.. maybe its a model for how NOT to write a paper.. LOL

T


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In a message dated 2/6/03 3:50:04 PM, grlynbl@... writes:

<< I agree.. It was very obvious it was a "student work" As far as
technically written reasearch papers go, it fails miserably. The student
cited works "for" unschooling, but only gave personal opinions "against"
unschooling.. >>

I thought it looked like she had read the Teenage Liberation Handbook, was
refuting points (it's not "research," that book...), defending school, and
justifying tradition.

Tradition is never based on research. It's tradition.
School is traditional.

Unschooling isn't based on research. It's experimental and reactionary. The
times it works are "anecdotal evidence." But school's evidence is
statistical evidence. Not TOO many kids kill themselves to get out of tests.
LOTS eventually reproduce and pass on the tradition.

Sandra

Heidi <[email protected]>

I couldn't get through the whole thing. Don't they provide teachers
to correct things? My word...Abbie loves to write, but I would NEVER
let her submit a piece like that for anything. It reads like a rough
draft or some airhead's diary entry. ugh.

hmm

Heidi


--- In [email protected], Shyrley
<shyrley.williams@v...> wrote:
>
>
> Well I read it..
>
> http://wps.ablongman.com/long_behrens_saw_1/0,5312,86595-,00.html
>
> What a terrible piece of work. Badly written, ungrammatical.
> If I had turned in something that badly written in High School my
tutor would have made me re-write the whole thing.
> tsk tsk
>
> Shyrley