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Happy [Not] Back to School Days to You
[cont'd]
"...His
imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of
value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work
for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety,
military poise for national security, the rat race for productive
work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor
are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions
which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to
depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals,
schools, and other agencies in question."[from DESCHOOLING
SOCIETY by Ivan Illich] |
You
see the thing is that the schools want total control over not just our
children's minds, but their bladders as well.
This
kind of stuff always reaffirms why we homeschool.
Teachers
can say no when kids have to go
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special for USA TODAY
[snip]
"So many parents would tell us, 'We can't do that. The teachers
won't let them go to the bathroom' " as often as they need
to, Cooper says. He says teachers should let children go whenever
they say they need to.
"Responding to your body's need to urinate or defecate is a
basic human right, or even one step below that, it's a basic animal
right," Cooper says.
"I don't think we would (restrict) animals, yet we do restrict
the kids."
Bathroom access is almost always determined at the discretion of
a classroom teacher, according to the Education Commission of the
States, an education policy resource center in Denver. Directives
from the district or state level would be unnecessarily intrusive,
says Francisco Negron, general counsel for the National School Boards
Association, which represents 15,000 local school boards across
the USA. [read
on] |
Everybody
offers "advice" this time of year as to how you can sucessfully
hand your kids over to the state to be educated and yet still be "allowed"
to contribute as a parent.
This
from the National PTA website:
National
Standards for Family-School Partnerships
A new way of learning; building family-school partnerships for
student success.
In the 2002 research review A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact
of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement,
Anne T. Henderson and Karen L. Mapp conclude that there is a positive
and convincing relationship between family involvement and student
success, regardless of race/ethnicity, class, or parents’
level of education. To put it another way, when families are involved
in their children’s learning both at home and at school,
their children do better in school.
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Sounds
a lot like homeschooling to me.
And
in case parents just aren't smart enough to figure out that they ought
to be the ones in charge of their children's education...
100
Ways to Help Your Child and School Succeed
There are many ways to be involved with your child’s education.
You’re probably doing some of these things already. Maybe
it’s calling the teacher to say “thank you” or
to ask a question, or attending a parent or school board meeting.You’ll
soon see the effects of your efforts—that’s because
when parents get involved in their children’s education, everyone
benefits. |
Though
the awesome truth is that they want us bad
The
Seduction of Homeschooling Families
by Chris Cardiff
Do the public school authorities feel threatened by homeschooling?
Judging by their efforts to lure homeschooling families into dependence
on local school districts, the answer is apparently yes. [snip]
Homeschooling also refutes the “more money equals better education”
mantra of teacher unions. The average homeschooling family spends
approximately 10% of the per pupil costs associated with government
schools [2] in achieving these academic results. Multiplied by the
number of homeschoolers, even these modest amounts add up to a sizeable
market attracting numerous educational entrepreneurs. [read
on] |
So
with all those lovely thoughts on the table, aren't you glad you're family
is NOT Going Back to School?
Here
are some ways homeschool familys celebrated NOT GOING BACK TO SCHOOL last
year:
 Not
Back To School Camp
is a summer camp created by Grace Llewellyn, the author of The Teenage
Liberation Handbook. there are three sessions: one in Plymouth, Vermont
at the Farm and Wilderness Camps, and two outside of Bridge, Oregon at
Camp Myrtlewood.
Not
Back to School Party
Ren Allen
Jonesborough, Tennessee, US
We had a great time hanging out at Rock Creek again today! This time with
three other unschooling families, celebrating our freedom with sand, water,
marshmallows and happy kids.:)
Not
Back To School Day
Doc, Backwoods, Oregon, US
That's right, Doc promised to get back to the meat and potatoes posting
in September. Christ on a stick, is it September already???
No
More School
Lori Mortimer's Mortpiphanies - Watch where you step
It’s official: after ~3 years of research (a.k.a. obsessive blog
reading and lurking on mailing lists) and 2 years of alternative schooling
(for one of my children), we’re saying “goodbye” to
school and “hello” to home learning. My kids will be finished
with school by June 15.
Yeehaw!
In September we hope to attend our first not-back-to-school-picnic, as
we also start to figure out exactly what home learning will look like
for us.
Not
Back to School
Melissa Wiley
Yesterday, while their neighborhood friends were getting acclimated to
new teachers, new classmates, new school clothes, my kids were:
1) playing games in a bank lobby while Scott and I tried unsuccessfully
to get me added to his new bank account
Not
Back to School
Amy Cortez - Travelin' With the Kid
Every homeschooling family celebrates a “Not Back to School Day”,
at least that is what I like to believe. Our day to celebrate was Mondaythis
week. The plan was to go to our local coffee house to catch up onthe latest
news with the coffee-house-posse, to go to Staples to not-buy back to
school supplies, to go to Morgan’s Livery one last time to kayak
our favorite river and then to Eat at Joe’s (Joe’s Crab Shack)
on the river for dinner.
We're going to the
beach this year.....
See
you next Month -- OldSage |
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judgment comes from the experiences gained when exercising bad judgment.
