Paula Sjogerman

on 5/17/03 1:01 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

> With over 1000 members on this list is there no one????? who has taken
> their young kids out of public school when there was no real issues-(ie,
> bad schools-learning difficulties-reluctance to go-bullying) other than the
> conviction that realxed home schooling ar unschooling was a very positive
> thing?


Pam Sorooshian, where are you? (probably in one of the gazillions of digests
I have yet to read <g>).

Paula

Pamela Sorooshian

LOL - I have almost 900 emails piled up - but somebody sent me this one
(thanks Jocelyn).

My older daughters were both extremely successful and happy in school -
one in 4th grade and the other in an nongraded primary classroom. They
were superstars of the school - everybody loved them, they were given
special privileges just because they were successful and popular. Roya
was in the gifted program and Rox was in a wonderful class of kids from
4 to 8 years old. There were no tests in this school - no textbooks -
no grades. It was a public school - but very innovative (I'd done a lot
of legwork to get them a transfer to that particular school). They used
"authentic assessment" and a lot of learning centers - little
whole-group teaching. Lots of music and art - really high quality.
Couldn't ask for better public school situation. I was PTA treasurer -
a job that required that I work pretty closely with the school
principal, so we were friends and I took advantage of that to make sure
my kids got the best teachers.

I took them out because I got AOL, was interested in education, ended
up on the homeschooling forums - met Sandra and others there - and
caught the unschooling fever. Roxana was happy about the idea, but Roya
wanted to stay in school. I had to promise her we'd reconsider after 6
weeks. I took the kids to the beach almost every day for the first
three weeks - and they quickly got involved with a very active
homeschooling group. She never wanted to go back and they both thank me
almost every single day for discovering unschooling!!!

-pam

On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Paula Sjogerman wrote:

>> With over 1000 members on this list is there no one????? who has taken
>> their young kids out of public school when there was no real
>> issues-(ie,
>> bad schools-learning difficulties-reluctance to go-bullying) other
>> than the
>> conviction that realxed home schooling ar unschooling was a very
>> positive
>> thing?
>
>
> Pam Sorooshian, where are you? (probably in one of the gazillions of
> digests
> I have yet to read <g>).

joanna514

--- In [email protected], Pamela Sorooshian
<pamsoroosh@m...> wrote:
>


><< I took them out because I got AOL, <snip>

THAT is why we unschool today!

Joanna :-)