From the interviewer:

Dear Sandra,

The show has been uploaded so that you can listen to it when you get a chance. It was very inspiring—I must say, quite a few people have told me they were inspired too. . . Thanks again,

Warmly
Beatrice Ekoko

Comments: I heard you!! You were awesome! I don't think you were talking too fast ... you can tell it's edited, but you still seemed to be speaking deliberately. You are right to be happy with it- and I liked the music, although it was a lot louder than your speaking, so I had to keep adjusting the volume ;-) Hey, at least that means I have speakers now. Thanks for sharing —Lori Thanks for tipping me off about the radio interview. I enjoyed listening to it! Wow--what insights! —Ymelda I finally had a chance last night to listen to the radio show you did and LOVED it (I've been forwarding the link to all my friends and relatives!). It's not only wonderfully wise, but you have such a nice voice...very soothing and convincing....just right to help my dh 'get' radical unschooling even better :) —Denise Thanks so much for the link to Sandra's radio show. I LOVED it. As usual, it came at JUST the right time. —[friend of friend] Hi Sandra, I want you to know I've quoted you in my blog just now 5/4/05: http://www.lifemedia.ca/wendy/blog.html Thanks for the insight! Wendy Wendy Priesnitz, Editor Life Learning Magazine Box 112, Niagara Falls NY 14304-0112 USA or 508-264 Queens Quay W, Toronto ON M5J 1B5 Canada Phone: (416) 260-0303 or toll-free: 1-800-215-9574 Email: [email protected] Web: LifeLearningMagazine.com Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko prepared a transcript of the interview, which was published in Life Learning Magazine (July/August 2005) and can be read in a PDF version here. A subsequent letter to the editor appears below.

wed. march 16, 2005 Improving Unschooling Interview: Sandra Dodd music: Pete Seeger; Bronwyn Kay-original composition edit: Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko "Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons; they think that raising their children is their business, not the government’s; they enjoy being with their children and watching them and helping them learn, and don’t want to give that up to others; they want to keep them from being hurt mentally, physically and spiritually." —John Holt RADIO FREE SCHOOL an all volunteer show by, for and about Un-schoolers/Home Learners. Check out our web site at www.hwcn.org/~ap951/ Contact us at [email protected] or P.O. Box 19, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton ON, L8S 1C0. Every Wednesday at 12 noon to 12:30 pm (EST) on CFMU 93.3 FM - Listen live on the web at http://cfmu.mcmaster.ca; also on: Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM , California http://www.freakradio.org/ KRBS-lp 107.1 FM in Oroville, California www.radiobirdstreet.org Free Radio Asheville, 107.5 fm, North Carolina http://main.nc.us/iww/fra/ Fredericton, New Brunswick on CHSR 97.9 FM http://www.unb.ca/chsr/home.html CFUR FM 88.7 UNBC/CNC Campus/Community Radio http://ears.unbc.ca CFRU 93.3 FM, Guelph Ontario, Canada. http://www.cfru.ca/ Radio Lava Lamp from Osaka, Japan at http://www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/ and searchable for download at http://www.radio4all.net

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