Comments on: Won’t Get Schooled Again http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/ Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:08:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sharon http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-627 Sharon Fri, 02 May 2008 20:15:42 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-627 I tease my partner about how he picked me up in the 1950s display at the local museum. At least that's how it looks from the outside. He has a straight, full time job and I'm a part time graduate student. I study public policy as a critic and activist. Looking at educational policy from a critical standpoint is very interesting as a homeschooling parent. Even among progressives and radicals I've known, there is tension about a mother who stays home to facilitate a family-based education. Some think that it sequesters women from 'the movement' which I find hilarious. If only the boundaries between these areas of life were so certain and impermiable. It's a consciousness raising process all the time. I tease my partner about how he picked me up in the 1950s display at the local museum. At least that’s how it looks from the outside. He has a straight, full time job and I’m a part time graduate student. I study public policy as a critic and activist. Looking at educational policy from a critical standpoint is very interesting as a homeschooling parent.

Even among progressives and radicals I’ve known, there is tension about a mother who stays home to facilitate a family-based education. Some think that it sequesters women from ‘the movement’ which I find hilarious. If only the boundaries between these areas of life were so certain and impermiable. It’s a consciousness raising process all the time.

]]> By: yvonne http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-533 yvonne Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:49:32 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-533 I am also a homeschooling mom, with a husband in the military. Sounds traditional, doesn't it? Except my husband splits the housechores with me (actually, he does most of them, especially the cooking and laundry!), and my son shares cooking duties! We are both secular--which really stands out both in the homeschooling world and the military world. I love that my son looks at injustice and asks "Why?". And I love that he takes it upon himself to question, to wonder, and to seek ways to actually do something about a given issue. You wrote a great article :) I am also a homeschooling mom, with a husband in the military. Sounds traditional, doesn’t it? Except my husband splits the housechores with me (actually, he does most of them, especially the cooking and laundry!), and my son shares cooking duties! We are both secular–which really stands out both in the homeschooling world and the military world.

I love that my son looks at injustice and asks “Why?”. And I love that he takes it upon himself to question, to wonder, and to seek ways to actually do something about a given issue.

You wrote a great article :)

]]> By: Denny http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-528 Denny Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:44:42 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-528 I like your term "community-based learning" - like SAHM who say they do anything but stay at home! I think that we can learn a lot more from the community than from schools, and it's a lot more fun, interesting, and useful. I like your term “community-based learning” - like SAHM who say they do anything but stay at home! I think that we can learn a lot more from the community than from schools, and it’s a lot more fun, interesting, and useful.

]]> By: coleen http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-520 coleen Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:39:12 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-520 hey Becky! people pointed me to this article from the UU homeschoolers list, I am delighted to see that it's YOU, stranger. nicely put. hey Becky!
people pointed me to this article from the UU homeschoolers list, I am delighted to see that it’s YOU, stranger. nicely put.

]]> By: Amy http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-515 Amy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:59:14 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-515 I'm also a homeschooling mom the US, and it is refreshing to hear from another homeschool mom that shares my thoughts. Thank you! This article is a blessed relief from many of the typical religious-based articles on homeschooling. I know I'm in the minority, but we homeschool for academic reasons. It was so nice to read of another mom who is homeschooling so that her children can "lead the way" so to speak. I, too, believe in the importance of letting children decide their own paths as to what they are intersted in. Gibran said it best, "your children are not your own." We cannot force them to follow the path we think is best. Thanks again for this refreshing article. I’m also a homeschooling mom the US, and it is refreshing to hear from another homeschool mom that shares my thoughts. Thank you! This article is a blessed relief from many of the typical religious-based articles on homeschooling. I know I’m in the minority, but we homeschool for academic reasons. It was so nice to read of another mom who is homeschooling so that her children can “lead the way” so to speak. I, too, believe in the importance of letting children decide their own paths as to what they are intersted in. Gibran said it best, “your children are not your own.” We cannot force them to follow the path we think is best. Thanks again for this refreshing article.

]]> By: Melissa http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-507 Melissa Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:24:08 +0000 http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/03/01/wont-get-schooled-again/#comment-507 Wonderful article! I am a US homeschooling mom and a feminist. I have never nodded my head so much while reading an article. Great!!! Wonderful article! I am a US homeschooling mom and a feminist. I have never nodded my head so much while reading an article. Great!!!

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