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Visiting School?
Sep. 22nd, 2011 02:40 pmMy kids are curious about school. Not in an our life sucks and we want something better sort of way. More in a we want to see for ourselves what this strange place is, since so many people go, and we have no frame of reference to help us understand what it is really like sort of way.
Not surprising, I suppose, since they usually prefer experiencing something to know what it's like, rather than being satisfied with someone else's description.
Ironic that school would systematically crush that compunction out of them if they actually attended for any length of time.
I've been trying to be very fair in my depiction of school lately, because we don't have many homeschooling friends anymore, and most of the kids we encounter go to school. But sometimes I think I'd rather just read them The seven lesson schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto or some quotes of famous people collected by Psychology Today and be done with it.
Maybe I should tell them to get a job as a teacher's aid when they grow up if they really want to see what the inside of a school is like. It would be less of a pain in the butt for me, and likely less damaging for them.
Not surprising, I suppose, since they usually prefer experiencing something to know what it's like, rather than being satisfied with someone else's description.
Ironic that school would systematically crush that compunction out of them if they actually attended for any length of time.
I've been trying to be very fair in my depiction of school lately, because we don't have many homeschooling friends anymore, and most of the kids we encounter go to school. But sometimes I think I'd rather just read them The seven lesson schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto or some quotes of famous people collected by Psychology Today and be done with it.
Maybe I should tell them to get a job as a teacher's aid when they grow up if they really want to see what the inside of a school is like. It would be less of a pain in the butt for me, and likely less damaging for them.
