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January 2, 2007, 6:30 am PST
11/24 Great School Debate
Quote From: mammato4boysWW, I completely understand your point of view. At this point in our homeschooling I have little need for "proof" that homeschooling works. I know it works, I see it daily.
But, I am concerned about people in high places (media) throwing around false statements. There are many people who will take Dr. Phil's statement as the gospel truth. As such, it is highly likely our homeschooling choice will be questioned based on this specific "research". It would be nice to see if it actually exists and what exactly it entails. I completely agree. As an unschooler, that choice gets questioned every time people in my non-net life become aware that that is what we do...
We tend to be highly careful in our non-net life with the terminology we use. We use everything from "homeschooling" (a word that is not such a bad thing here in Nova Scotia) to "independent learning", and avoid the word "unschooling" because of all the baggage that seems to be attached to that word.
I, too, am uncomfortable with that term, because it sounds so aggressive, and "anti-culture".
I get a lot of questions for many of my choices, because so many of them are completely different than the mainstream, and in my non-net life I tend to avoid (sometimes painstakingly LOL) having my differences be detectable because I completely dislike being the focus of attention.
Being a natural foodist in a world where Christmas celebrations revolve around consumption of shortbread cookies LOL... solution? Bring a giant tray of organic grapes haha. They disappeared so fast you'd think it was pecan pie haha. And nobody noticed my non consumption of nanaimo bars (grin).
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