Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] HomePolSchooling Rally Thing
[email protected]
In a message dated 9/16/2004 1:07:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
I have two reasons for sending this. It's not the kind of thing I would
normally send.
1) Maybe some of you in that area would be interested
2) Maybe this is an indicator of what some of the recent undercurrent of
unhappiness with unschoolers/unschooling as a separate-from-homeschooling
thing
could be related to, for some people.
Dear School Liberator Subscriber:
Join the best thinkers on education at SepCon2004,
Saturday-Monday, November 20-22, at the lovely
Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC
It's right in my neighborhood! ANd Michael Farris is speaking!
YYYYYAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!
Run away! Run Away!
Elissa Jill
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
They're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon
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[email protected] writes:
I have two reasons for sending this. It's not the kind of thing I would
normally send.
1) Maybe some of you in that area would be interested
2) Maybe this is an indicator of what some of the recent undercurrent of
unhappiness with unschoolers/unschooling as a separate-from-homeschooling
thing
could be related to, for some people.
Dear School Liberator Subscriber:
Join the best thinkers on education at SepCon2004,
Saturday-Monday, November 20-22, at the lovely
Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC
It's right in my neighborhood! ANd Michael Farris is speaking!
YYYYYAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!
Run away! Run Away!
Elissa Jill
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
They're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Beth
Who is Michael Farris and why is he so scary?
Beth
out of the Farris loop...or should that be Farris wheel? <g>
Beth
out of the Farris loop...or should that be Farris wheel? <g>
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> Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC
> It's right in my neighborhood! ANd Michael Farris is speaking!
> YYYYYAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!
>
> Run away! Run Away!
> Elissa Jill
[email protected]
In a message dated 9/16/04 9:26:12 AM, saremca@... writes:
<< Who is Michael Farris and why is he so scary? >>
Conservative Christian-Homeschooling activist in or around Virginia, studied
law but not practicing (last I heard, which was a while back and could be no
longer true), draws a huge salary from HSLDA which many homeschooling families
send $100 or whatever it is now every year out of fear. The fear is created
from within HSLDA, mostly. He is alleged to intend to run for some big public
office (or has?) and is in the middle of a conservative movement that pushes
Christian-Homeschoolers (not people who homeschool who happen to be Christian,
but those who are part of the same big movemet he is) to train for public
office. The boys, not the girls, of course.
When seen from a distance that movement is WAY more about politics than about
children.
He's not the only one, but he has a recognizeable and out-there name so he
gets blamed for or takes credit for lots of it.
That's off the top of my head. If you went to google.com and looked him up
there would be more.
It's not about unschooling, but it is about the why of unschooling sometimes
being so profoundly separate from what some others consider "home schooling."
Sandra
<< Who is Michael Farris and why is he so scary? >>
Conservative Christian-Homeschooling activist in or around Virginia, studied
law but not practicing (last I heard, which was a while back and could be no
longer true), draws a huge salary from HSLDA which many homeschooling families
send $100 or whatever it is now every year out of fear. The fear is created
from within HSLDA, mostly. He is alleged to intend to run for some big public
office (or has?) and is in the middle of a conservative movement that pushes
Christian-Homeschoolers (not people who homeschool who happen to be Christian,
but those who are part of the same big movemet he is) to train for public
office. The boys, not the girls, of course.
When seen from a distance that movement is WAY more about politics than about
children.
He's not the only one, but he has a recognizeable and out-there name so he
gets blamed for or takes credit for lots of it.
That's off the top of my head. If you went to google.com and looked him up
there would be more.
It's not about unschooling, but it is about the why of unschooling sometimes
being so profoundly separate from what some others consider "home schooling."
Sandra
Sylvia Toyama
He is alleged to intend to run for some big public
office (or has?) and is in the middle of a conservative movement that pushes Christian-Homeschoolers (not people who homeschool who happen to be Christian, but those who are part of the same big movemet he is) to train for public office. The boys, not the girls, of course.
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He has run for office in recent years -- I think gov or lt. gov? It was during the mid-90's when I lived in the DC area. He's a fundamentalist christian homeschooler with, I think, nine kids (at last count) and a very conservative Republican. Even for Virginians, this guy is ultra-conservative (and that's saying a lot in my experience with VA in my 13 yrs there).
Sylvia
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office (or has?) and is in the middle of a conservative movement that pushes Christian-Homeschoolers (not people who homeschool who happen to be Christian, but those who are part of the same big movemet he is) to train for public office. The boys, not the girls, of course.
******
He has run for office in recent years -- I think gov or lt. gov? It was during the mid-90's when I lived in the DC area. He's a fundamentalist christian homeschooler with, I think, nine kids (at last count) and a very conservative Republican. Even for Virginians, this guy is ultra-conservative (and that's saying a lot in my experience with VA in my 13 yrs there).
Sylvia
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Crystal
***draws a huge salary from HSLDA which many homeschooling families
send $100 or whatever it is now every year out of fear. The fear is
created from within HSLDA, mostly.***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh, yeah, the fear. I was at my first local homeschooling meeting
of the year yesterday. There was a new family there that just
pulled their pre-teens out of school. One of the mom's said, "Oh,
don't forget to sign up for HSLDA. Better to be safe than sorry."
Then all the other mom's nodded their heads in agreement with her.
I said, "I just keep the phone number of a few umbrella schools on
hand. If the school dept ever gave me a hard time, I'd just join
one of them and be considered a private schooler." I got the "your
putting your life in jeopardy!" looks. O, well.
Crystal
send $100 or whatever it is now every year out of fear. The fear is
created from within HSLDA, mostly.***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh, yeah, the fear. I was at my first local homeschooling meeting
of the year yesterday. There was a new family there that just
pulled their pre-teens out of school. One of the mom's said, "Oh,
don't forget to sign up for HSLDA. Better to be safe than sorry."
Then all the other mom's nodded their heads in agreement with her.
I said, "I just keep the phone number of a few umbrella schools on
hand. If the school dept ever gave me a hard time, I'd just join
one of them and be considered a private schooler." I got the "your
putting your life in jeopardy!" looks. O, well.
Crystal