File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9912, message 681


Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:18:35 +0000
From: Erik <anarchie-AT-buelinckx.net>
Subject: Re: homeschooling


Ha good to get a response (i was asking for it)

I still have a question then. How certain are you about your own abilities
to do this homeschooling ?

I ask this because i'm not sure about myself in this. I would be afraid to
give my children not enough. I feel easier in playing a counterweight to
established ideas. Although maybe this is a lost fight already. On the
other hand i went through twelve years of catholic school so our opting for
a state school should be considered in this light as a choice for a more
openminded schooling environment.
As for other types of school: since here in Belgium the choices are rather
limited (state schools or catholic schools -- the latter go by the name of
free education, go figure), it is also not so easy to find an alternative.
There are some (extremely few) "experimental" schools but they have to fit
in in the general educational framework. There are some Steiner schools
which i consider to be little fascist children camps disguised as an
artistic free environment.
 I am going to look into a Freinet school (my niece started recently as a
teacher in one) but the general school system (in the state schools at
least) are adapting their teaching methods to a greater emphasize on the
creational aspects (schools are indeed much different then when i went).
Ofcourse underlying is still the same relation teacher-child with all its
possibilities and pitfalls. But these are not different in homeschooling.

As far as historical lies go: is our truth any better ?

Still looking for a good solution.

Erik

PS. Could you tell a bit more on who decides in the U$ state and private
schools about the curriculum, and what kind of help you get in
homeschooling. (thanks)

At 04:46 -0600 15-12-1999, Sandi & Scott Spaeth wrote:
> One way is to homeschool, were we can avoid the debilitating sameness
>enforced by mass schooling (not to mention the outright lies teachers tell
>- history, civics, world cultures - you name it, there's usually a truth
>warping agenda hidden not far from the lessons).  Other ways, perhaps
>better I don't know, include starting or finding free schools or modern
>schools to send your children to.  We haven't found anything like that in
>St. Louis, so we homeschool (after first trying and rejecting state
>schools).  You wouldn't trust the state with your life, then why the lives
>of your children?  I understand that for many people, financially
>homeschooling doesn't seem like an option, but where and when it's
>possible, I think it's preferable.
>
> cheers,
> Scott
>---------------------------------------------------------





   

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