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Parents and Teachers Starting 'Learning Pods' Are Done Waiting for Permission
Intellectual Takeout ^ | 8/4 | Kerry McDonald

Posted on 08/05/2020 8:17:09 AM PDT by AT7Saluki

These learning pods, or in-home microschools, involve small groups of families coming together to take turns facilitating a curriculum for their children in their homes, or pooling resources to hire a teacher or college student to lead instruction. They are a creative, spontaneous response to uncertain or undesirable school reopening plans that make at-home learning easier, more practical, and more enjoyable for more families.

These pods are also a prime example of what Adam Thierer calls “permissionless innovation,” where new solutions and discoveries are born without explicit regulatory blessings. In his book, Thierer explains: “The best solutions to complex social problems are almost always organic and ‘bottom-up’ in nature.”

(Excerpt) Read more at intellectualtakeout.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; homeschool; parents; school; teachers
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To: MayflowerMadam

Go to hslda.org and find your state chapter...contact your state chapter with your interest. I hope he finds some eager students. God bless him. I would have utilized him!


21 posted on 08/05/2020 9:25:28 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: AT7Saluki

Sckrools supply two services:
Teach the three R’s
Keep the yutes occupied while the parents earn some money


22 posted on 08/05/2020 9:30:18 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: AT7Saluki

Home schooling is an idea whose time is way overdue! Public schools have been a menace on several fronts for many years, the least of which is indoctrination!

My own observation is that homeschooled children tend to outperform public school students in so many areas. If anyone has statistics on things like college graduation, SAT scores, etc I would sure like to see them.

Thanks.


23 posted on 08/05/2020 9:31:49 AM PDT by icclearly
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To: AT7Saluki

This is driving me and my wife crazy. We home-schooled all five of our children and this used to be called a homeschooling coop.

But I guess “pod” is much cooler now that the cool parents are doing it. They wouldn’t want anybody to think they were hicks doing regular home schooling, would they?


24 posted on 08/05/2020 9:36:59 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: PGR88

Yes, it is exactly how public schools began. Remember that government involvement will ruin the overwhelming good that old-fashioned schooling makes. That means NO funding, no “national” or “state” standards or endorsed curriculum, no free school lunches and so forth. Can it be done? I think so but what you have is basically is private school. Sure sounds good though.


25 posted on 08/05/2020 10:28:02 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public4 school teacher, I highly recommend private school.)
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To: Persevero

Thanks for that website info. I will give to Hubby.

My brother’s wife home schools her boys in rural NYS, and they’re doing great. Smart kids!! I think they wouldn’t have achieved what they have if they’d been in a conventional school. Shoot ... I know they wouldn’t have!


26 posted on 08/05/2020 10:33:17 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
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To: metmom

I agree! Who says we have to live by their rules?!?!


27 posted on 08/05/2020 1:00:10 PM PDT by clarissaexplainsitall
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To: KarlInOhio
the left wants a society where everything is either required or prohibited, without room for freedom of choice.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest . . . — Thomas Paine,Common Sense (1776)
The identity of “society" with “government" is the extinguishment of freedom. Even back in the middle of the Eisenhower Administration, I had a teacher give an assignment whose purpose turned out to be for him to proclaim “We like to say society when we mean government.” Even as a high school student I recognized that as a socialist formulation. But I did not then have knowledge of that quote from Common Sense.

28 posted on 08/05/2020 1:57:44 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: clarissaexplainsitall

I recall a FReeper, not too long ago, wad taken down a tree in his own yard, and said the neighbor lady asked *Are you allowed to to that by yourself?*

Really? Have we gotten to that point where we need someone’s (usually the government) *permission* to take care of our own personal business and make our own decisions?


29 posted on 08/05/2020 2:17:59 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: MayflowerMadam

You can also check and see if there is a retired teacher’s association in your community. A lot of them do tutoring on the side. Plus, they still have a lot of connections in the educational community and can refer people to you. For instance, if one of them is tutoring someone in math, but there is a need for an English teacher, they would know.


30 posted on 08/05/2020 3:38:24 PM PDT by CFW
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To: MayflowerMadam
Many communities have neighborhood facebook pages.

Homeschooling groups are everywhere. An internet search can help.

Put an ad on Craig's List.

31 posted on 08/06/2020 4:52:17 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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