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Dear Sandra (and list),

As owner of this list, I heartily applaud your letter!

I've been on the road for much of this past week, and have been unable to
monitor the posts here, but I've got a mailbox full of complaints and
requests for a change of subject matter on this list.

I think you've done a fine job of outlining the situation, so I won't
repeat things here, but I wanted to let you and the list know that I am in
complete agreement with your request.

Helen
Helen@...
http://unschooling.com
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"I took the road less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."
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At 1:53 PM -0400 6/9/99, SandraDodd@... wrote:
>From: SandraDodd@...
>
>Hi, all!
>
>I was becoming uncomfortable with some of the postings on this list and I
>thought it was just me, but there are a few others as well, so if I might
>have your attention for a moment I would like to present some reminders and a
>proposal.
>
>www.unschooling.com is an incredible resource for the homeschooling
>community. There is a mountain of material on homeschooling in general, but
>it's hard to find some clear, quality unschooling support. Not only are
>there essays and FAQs and message boards, there is a mail list!
>
>If those message boards fill up with things which aren't unschooling related,
>or if the mailing list goes off on structured-learning tangents and doesn't
>come back, it will be harder for people to get the focussed support they
>should be able to expect in an area called unschooling.com.
>
>There are lots of people on this list and I'm glad of it, and I don't work
>for the forum, I'm just someone on the list. But as others have inquired of
>me as though they think I might be able to redirect the flow of these
>mailings, I am bravely going to ask that conversations which encourage
>structured learning over unschooling be minimized or eliminated and that
>conversations which have nothing to do with either of those be taken to
>private e-mail.
>
>Now someone who actually works on the forum might come along and ask me to
>quit asking anyone to change anything, but that's a risk I'll take for the
>sake of helping keep this list fascinating and useful for the unschoolers who
>might sign on just now as I'm writing this, or next weekend when a bunch of
>us are away, or next month.
>
>I'd also ask that the most experienced homeschoolers among us go and post
>something in the message boards at www.unschooling.com at least once a week,
>if not more. If we spend all our energy here we won't be building as
>glorious a life-changing resource on the internet. We can keep children in
>distant states from suffering the indignity of being put through school at
>home if we provide their parents with inspiring alternative information.
>
>Thank you for your time and consideration.
>
>
>Sandra Dodd
>
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In a message dated 3/22/2002 10:53:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:


> Maybe spending more time discussing unschooling, then, and less discussing
> the list itself would help everyone's ideas, discovery and thinking. Less
> time being offended and more time telling us about your unschooling?

Thank you, Sandra! This is exactly what I'm looking for on this list.
Since joining this list to learn more about unschooling, I've found myself
deleting almost all the messages that have the subject "Unschooling or not?"

kathy


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