by Kalailan » Sat Sep 27, 2003 3:24 pm
Hello!<br /><br />first of all, thanks for the warm wellcome!<br /><br />I am a begginer. i also advance slowly, as english is not my native tongue, and remebering all the grammar definitions and words is not an easy task.<br /><br />As klewlis said it depends on where one lives, i will tell you more about that.<br /><br />In my country my family is one of the first familys to unschool ever. we are pioneers in that matter... <br />But the family that introduced my family to that idea and my family started up a paper about that and other subjects, and today there are about 350 subscriptions to it, and more and more familys are not sending their children to school.<br />Hopefully in the future the permission from the government to unschool will be something easier to acheive, as now it is very hard.<br /><br />We do not report to anyone what we know or don't know,<br />and we don't have tests, as they simply lack the ability to truly tell what someone knows. As a result of stress and other factors one might forget every thing one knows, as Dickens so beautifuly describes in "David Copperfield".<br /><br />And we don't believe in the government's right to decide what we know and don't know. <br /><br />Because in school what happens is that the natural curiosity of a child is being oppressed, sometimes to the level of it disapearing completely. Unschooled kids are a lot more curios and interested in various subjects that are sometimes <br />subjects that will never be learned by an ordinary schooled kid, such as Latin and Greek.<br /><br />Well, <br />i will continue this another time,<br />best wishes to you all,<br />Ronen<br /><br /><br /><br />
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