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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Son #3 was and is a sports nut.  He went through Little League, Babe Ruth, 
Hoopsters, and Pop Warner like a hot knife through butter.  He informs me he 
is off to one of the local high schools.  Goes and tries out for the Varsity 
football team even though he would have technically been a freshman.  Made 
the cut and then signed up for p.s.  He refused to do busy work and they 
threatened to kick him out even though he aced all the tests and all the 
assignments he didn't consider busy work and was qualified for the Honor 
Roll.  It is kinda hard to convince an unschooler to do things that are not 
logical <g>  So, off to the school board he goes and fights the threatened 
suspension and bad grades.  He presented his argument in a very methodical 
fashion and brough along all the busy work they wanted him to do and his 
test scores.  He won.  Last game of the season was the regional 
championship, got the MVP he wanted and got a call from a local college to 
call them when he was older.  After the game he said "see ya."

When this experience was over, he said he'd learned a lot about how to spend 
time spinning your wheels and doing the same boring thing over and over and 
over again.

So, sometimes the kids do win the argument that you made, Ray.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rayzentz AT aim.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Schools


> You know, I haven't mentioned this before, but I am also opposed to 
> cumpulsory attendance policies.   For example, I taught at a reservation 
> school years ago, where they instituted a mandatory "f" grade if the 
> student missed more than two weeks of school in a single quarter.   It 
> came up because there were two students who had missed more than that, and 
> were still getting "A"s in all of their classes.   My comment to the 
> teachers involved was to the effect that if the students could demonstrate 
> that they knew what you wanted them to know, without having to be in your 
> class, then why should they have to be there?   Obviously, you are 
> irrelevant, at least to them.
>
> Again, I am not always popular with others in my profession...
> Ray
>
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