FR Homeschoolers 09/20/2002

FR Homeschoolers | 09/20/2002 | TxBec

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This is our own corner of Free Republic where homeschoolers can discuss what curriculum we use, vent when needed, share our successes, compare notes, alert each other to things we find on the internet, and vent some more.

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Jon's Homeschool Resources

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G'morning..

[BallandPowder]

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[TxBec]

John Taylor Gatto's book is now online to read for free :)

[kassie]

Thanks for the link.

[Mary's Child]

Hi all you people who think education is important!

Well, this thread won't be very busy during the day. ;)

[WriteOn]

Thanks!

[Aquinasfan]

John Taylor Gatto's book is now online to read for free :)

What a great man. Thanks for the info.

[Aquinasfan]

If anyone wonders whether homeschooling is worth it, read the following exerpt from Gatto's book:

Barbara Whiteside showed me a poem written by a high school senior in Alton, Illinois, two weeks before he committed suicide:

He drew... the things inside that needed saying. Beautiful pictures he kept under his pillow. When he started school he brought them... To have along like a friend. It was funny about school, he sat at a square brown desk Like all the other square brown desks... and his room Was a square brown room like all the other rooms, tight And close and stiff.

He hated to hold the pencil and chalk, his arms stiff His feet flat on the floor, stiff, the teacher watching And watching. She told him to wear a tie like All the other boys, he said he didn't like them. She said it didn't matter what he liked. After that the class drew.

He drew all yellow. It was the way he felt about Morning. The Teacher came and smiled, "What's this? Why don't you draw something like Ken's drawing?" After that his mother bought him a tie, and he always Drew airplanes and rocketships like everyone else. He was square inside and brown and his hands were stiff. The things inside that needed saying didn't need it Anymore, they had stopped pushing... crushed, stiff Like everything else.

I have to admit, that was my experience with school. And this could have been me. I have never experienced anything like the soul-crushing effect of schooling since leaving.

[Tired of Taxes]

How very sad. I'll bet the boy was very creative and talented, just very depressed. My school experience wasn't much different from his (and I attended Catholic school until tenth grade). That's why I cannot understand people who claim that my children are missing something just because they don't ride a schoolbus to a school where they can sit with other children their age and learn exactly what they're learning at the same time. I hated school from Day One.