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In a message dated 4/28/2003 11:52:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> ************I've never seen Sonlight, though I've heard of it (no glowing
> reports, mostly bad reports) but I do know that the Alpha-Omega
> curriculum, which is PURELY fill in the blank workbooks for every
> subject, cost more than $600, ten years ago. More than $600 for a
> passel of cheap newsprint workbooks, for the kids to sit and fill in
> the FREAKING blanks? Even before I started homeschooling, I knew that
> was a bunch of malarky.*********
>
> Geesh..you are absolutely on the mark there...we tried Alpha Omega too, the
> workbooks for one and the cds for another... fill in the blanks for sure!
> what's the point?
>

I'm marketing a new series of Unschooling curriculum, just $1243 per year per
child. I anticipate that 83.47% of Unschoolers will choose to use this
curriculum, which consists of newsprint workbooks -- of blank pages.

Let me know how many you want to order.
Kathryn


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In a message dated 4/29/2003 8:09:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> >I'm marketing a new series of Unschooling curriculum, just $1243 per year
> per
> >child. I anticipate that 83.47% of Unschoolers will choose to use this
> >curriculum, which consists of newsprint workbooks -- of blank pages.
>
> Nah. Too many unschooling kids are doers rather than readers and writers.
> My estimate would be closer to 71.635%
>

I'll adjust my business plan accordingly. Or...I could have the kinesthetic
learners package.... It will be a bit more expensive, as it includes a jump
rope.

Kathryn, who on the state e-mail list just had someone ask what kinds of
curriculum vendors would be at the Unschooling Conference


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unschooling_dad

As a vendor who was at the Unschooling Conference in South Carolina
last year, I had to change the subject line to match the question and
comments people have been making.

"Vendors" can definitely have a place at an unschooling conference.
Pre-packaged "curriculum vendors" are another matter, and aren't as
likely to receive a warm welcome from most unschoolers.

We prefer to think of ourselves as a resource vendor and definitely
not a curriculum vendor.

Billy
www.FUN-Books.com

> Kathryn, who on the state e-mail list just had someone ask what
kinds of
> curriculum vendors would be at the Unschooling Conference

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In a message dated 4/30/2003 10:57:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
FUNLists@... writes:
> As a vendor who was at the Unschooling Conference in South Carolina
> last year, I had to change the subject line to match the question and
> comments people have been making.
>
> "Vendors" can definitely have a place at an unschooling conference.
> Pre-packaged "curriculum vendors" are another matter, and aren't as
> likely to receive a warm welcome from most unschoolers.
>
> We prefer to think of ourselves as a resource vendor and definitely
> not a curriculum vendor.
>

And I'm hoping that Bill and Nancy and their kids will be back this year!

They had a BUNCH of cool, fun things for unschoolers---and left before *I*
could spend $$ <g>

~Kelly


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