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In a message dated 4/6/03 8:56:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

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I don't think they stop caring. They just are in a transition and healing
stage before they can embrace a new idea. Sometimes they send their kids to
school instead. Sometimes they unschool. Sometimes they adopt a different
philosophy. But I don't think anyone gives up and doesn't care anymore. If
they didn't care, they wouldn't burn out. >>

I know a Mom like that.
She "homeschooled" by not doing ANYTHING. I suppose being a single Mom and
not working would have put her in the position to be a fabulous unschooler.
But she never did anything with the kids.
She was kind and gentle, but not very aware or interesting.....no passions of
her own.
Her kids grew up with virtually NO knowledge of the world. Unaware of
historical events, mathematical concepts etc....
I think she really loved her children, and I still think they were better off
in that situation than in school BUT she was not an unschooler in my opinion.
She's close to her adult children, they are kind and well adjusted people,
finding their way in this world and I think they'll learn anything she didn't
expose them to in their own time.
But I also think it was educational neglect to just leave them on their own
and not be involved in showing more of the world to them.

Ren
"The sun is shining--the sun is shining. That is the magic. The flowers are
growing--the roots are stirring. That is the magic. Being alive is the
magic--being strong is the magic The magic is in me--the magic is in
me....It's in every one of us."

----Frances Hodgson Burnett