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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homeschooling and unschooling
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:26:51 -0500


On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

Imagine for a moment that you removed the concept of "the Man". What would
happen to the gangs?

They would replace THE MAN as the authority in their area. They would become little mobs, ripping people off, demanding protection money, running every scam that had previously been attributed to the Mafia.

If there's nothing to be against, their influence
disappears.

They are against having to work. They are for themselves. They are as animals, taking what they want, with no morals save their own codes.

One of the characteristics of the unschooler's world is self- validation. How
many times have we come across some schooled to the soul idiot who asks the
children where they go to school, and when it is determined that that they are
homeschooled (unschooling is a concept beyond them), said idiot will say
something like:

"Oh, let me ask you then, if one car travels at 80 mph and another car
travels at 55 mph the same distance but arrives 20 minutes later, who far did they
travel?"

(The children stare at him.)

"Ah, don't know, do you?"

(To which I reply)
"It's not that. They think you are an idiot. What kind of moron asks such a
thing uninvited?"

A person who has not been indoctrianted from birth to constantly seek outside
approval and valiation is so foreign to the schooled that they can in no wise
deal with it.

It's harder to undo that indoctrination once it's in place, but it does
happen.

Remove that indoctrination from those project and barrio children, and the
need for gangs goes with it. </HTML>

I cannot visualize it. To remove all indoctrination, starting right this moment, leaves a huge number of children at loose ends. The result would be chaos. The National Guard would be brought in to control as in a police state.





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