using Clear English in the discussion
Response to complaints
JUST READ and don't join the group if your facebook page is private or mostly secret. If you're unwilling to let people see, then you REALLY don't want any of these posts where others can see them, which might happen if you post or comment.
If a moderator looks at your page and it has one or three of these conditions, you should just bookmark this page, and come read, rather than joining.
Made-up name or business nameThere are other things that can make it seem someone's not a good invitee to an international discussion of how unschooling works well. But the good news is that you can all look at these discussions without being members of the group.
No evidence of children or of any home ed
Crushing negativity
Strident politics
Overwhelming religiosity
Something to sell
Above all, JUST READ and don't post until you've been here a while and read this (maybe two or three times):
SandraDodd.com/facebookgroup
- If I can't click on the name (privacy settings so high)...
- If the page has no evidence of parenthood or unschooling...
- If the page is stridently political or vehemently religious or negative or mean...
- If the page has no photos, but just borrowed new-age images of fantasy women with glittery eyes and eagle feathers, I'll reject it faster than anything.
- All those people with all those pages will still be able to read, but not to post.
Blocked a moderator (if we can't all see what you're writing, it won't work)
Insulted moderators
Refusal to chill (if a moderator asks you not to post for a while, then stop or I'll stop you)
Other reasons might be added as they occur.
Sometimes we reject someone who might have been fine, and daily we reject several people who are clearly spammers, or childless salespeople, or political cranks who like fury more than they want joy.
REMINDER: This is a public group. It shows on people's pages. Anyone can read this, even if they are not members.
Someone deleted her post (which deleted ALL the responses—a lot of other people's time and effort, gone). It's difficult to help people see the purpose of this group, but we do keep trying. The "about," the pinned post, the files.... but when people are here on a phone or iPad, it's not so easy to find those things. Even on a computer it's not all in one place, but there are links to this, where it IS in one place:
using Clear English in the discussion
Response to complaints