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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Surely what they learn is what is around them. If they are surrounded
> by disorder and criminality is that not what they would learn?
***Gene, that simply is not a valid argument.  Nope, nadda, nein, nit, 
never! <g>

99.999% of the criminals, both incarcerated AND uncaught, are the product of 
the public school system or the private school system.  Providing a kiddy 
prison does more to prepare them for adult prison than it does to education 
them in the ways of expanind their minds and learning the 3 Rs.

> snip<

> I understand the history, the motivation, the logic. I can see how
> homeschooling and unschooling would be most helpful to many children.
> I have strong reservations that it would work in areas where some
> children are trying to do good things while surrounded by gangs
> pushing them around, taunting them, recruiting them, training them to
> be good gang members. It seems to me that urban gangs are in fact a
> result of lack of guidance, of extreme unschooling. What these
> children learn is how to survive in a criminal atmosphere.
***You've just described the average public school.  The average public 
school where teachers break the law with impunity.  Where children learn how 
to bully and those bullied quickly learn that there are no consequences for 
the bully.

The public school system is the training grounds for gangs.  How to bully, 
how to manipulate the system, how to cheat and get rewarded (sports' stars 
comes to mind) and so forth and so on.

Lynda
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