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In a message dated 4/6/03 10:49:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
<<
Why wouldn't you treat an anonymous person in e-mail with the same
consideration and respect as you would your child? >>
Is this a serious question?
I mean really, do you treat other people with the same patience, love and
care that you do your own children?
It's not disrespectful to say "that isn't unschooling" on an unschooling
board.
It IS disrespectful to come onto a board and whine about the advice being
given.
Let me give you an example of MY typical week in regards to helping newcomers.
I run a support group, get between 1-3 families each week calling for
information, emailing for help and showing up at our support group needing
their hand held.
I help them understand FL law, how to meet it, where to get more information,
I haul supplies, books etc... to our resource day every Wed., print
brochures, attend local meetings, set up dates at the local health food co-op
to promote unschooling, plan our mini-conference for this fall and THEN come
here and to a couple other spots to promote unschooling on the internet.
Oh, and we have our groups website which I add things to (via LeeAnn), and I
write about unschooling!!!
Every month or so, some new person comes along, gets some advice that
apparently upsets them and starts in about how we shouldn't post this way or
that way, how the "old timers" (which I don't consider myself yet) are rude,
how we should be more gentle....yadayadayada....
BUT, the thing that got me to let go of all that school CRAP, was the blunt,
useful information given by the folks here.
Sure, I had a hard time digesting a lot of it. I questioned and got my
feathers ruffled, but I NEVER told them they should quite posting a certain
way or change the board to suit my needs.
That is the problem.
I've seen the folks here answer question after question after question,
process the same ideas over and over and over for YEARS (in addition to
helping local people daily) and never flag in their devotion.
If someone has a problem asking questions, I say that is a personal issue.
The only time you're going to get your ideas jumped on is if you're defending
stuff that is not unschooling.
Questions get answered over and over with nothing short of patience.
Defense of schoolish crap or disrespect to kids will get dissected readily.
That's what this list is FOR!!!
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
[email protected] writes:
<<
Why wouldn't you treat an anonymous person in e-mail with the same
consideration and respect as you would your child? >>
Is this a serious question?
I mean really, do you treat other people with the same patience, love and
care that you do your own children?
It's not disrespectful to say "that isn't unschooling" on an unschooling
board.
It IS disrespectful to come onto a board and whine about the advice being
given.
Let me give you an example of MY typical week in regards to helping newcomers.
I run a support group, get between 1-3 families each week calling for
information, emailing for help and showing up at our support group needing
their hand held.
I help them understand FL law, how to meet it, where to get more information,
I haul supplies, books etc... to our resource day every Wed., print
brochures, attend local meetings, set up dates at the local health food co-op
to promote unschooling, plan our mini-conference for this fall and THEN come
here and to a couple other spots to promote unschooling on the internet.
Oh, and we have our groups website which I add things to (via LeeAnn), and I
write about unschooling!!!
Every month or so, some new person comes along, gets some advice that
apparently upsets them and starts in about how we shouldn't post this way or
that way, how the "old timers" (which I don't consider myself yet) are rude,
how we should be more gentle....yadayadayada....
BUT, the thing that got me to let go of all that school CRAP, was the blunt,
useful information given by the folks here.
Sure, I had a hard time digesting a lot of it. I questioned and got my
feathers ruffled, but I NEVER told them they should quite posting a certain
way or change the board to suit my needs.
That is the problem.
I've seen the folks here answer question after question after question,
process the same ideas over and over and over for YEARS (in addition to
helping local people daily) and never flag in their devotion.
If someone has a problem asking questions, I say that is a personal issue.
The only time you're going to get your ideas jumped on is if you're defending
stuff that is not unschooling.
Questions get answered over and over with nothing short of patience.
Defense of schoolish crap or disrespect to kids will get dissected readily.
That's what this list is FOR!!!
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