I've often thought of what it would be like if there were no school. What would people do with their kids? Would they actually make different choices? Better choices? Be more responsible?
Makes me wonder...
Society has been ingrained with the indoctrination of the public school system. The main point of the system is to control the masses. We can't have free thinking people out and about all day deciding what to to with their time.
The system is government daycare at best. People can't wait to unload their kid so they don't have to be responsible for them.
If this sounds harsh, tough, it's how I feel, what I think from years of observing parents.
Yes, there are some great involved parents who still send their kids to school. Why? I have no idea.
Having to work is no excuse. There are many single parent homeschoolers and many dual working parents. Be creative, find a way to work so your kids don't have to be put in school.
I actually don't think teaching should be a profession. Look at what it is today. Teachers have to follow the school boards orders. Now they are pushing more and more testing and teachers being compensated by student test scores.
That is absolutely ridiculous!
Tests are meaningless, degrading and harmful. They have no measure of true knowledge, some people are great test takers and can bullshit through even though they don't know the answers.
The system is seriously flawed and politicians think more money and more standards are the answer.
Well it isn't the answer. It doesn't work! The system is broken and has been for as long as I can remember, it's just getting worse.
More and more people are homeschooling these days but so many never will.
Schools as we know them should be banned. They should be some sort of cooperative learning center where people can choose what they want to learn, how and when. Of course this would mean being responsible and trusting people. There needs to be some sort of option for those that would never homeschool.
This will not happen anytime soon because people are used to being controlled, coerced, punished and rewarded.
I believe that too many people just don't think about the fact that the school system owns their kids. Kids deserve to grow and learn and be free to choose and be respected as people.
Kids do not belong in school wasting away their precious youth and being forcefed useless facts to regurgitate on demand.
Learning is natural and not something that needs to be forced. We don't need to be taught how to read and write, we can and do learn without instruction.
In this age of the internet, information is a click away, we can find out anything we want, we can learn about anything we want. School is an outdated institution.
Schooling takes away the natural ability, it makes learning a chore and something that has to be taught by a master.
School is damaging our youth, look around you.
I wish people would wake up!
I wish parents were responsible and respectful.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
More John Holt
"We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards, gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys, in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else."
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Law and Order CI
I just watched an old episode from 2004, I think...
Controlling dad, post partum depressed mom with 4 kids under 7....
Oh my God! It was awesome and awful!
All she wanted was to be a good mother. He controlled her, he made schedules, he encouraged HOMEschooling!
He discouraged therapy and treatment for PPD.
So she decides to kill herself and take her kids with her. Except she and her oldest survive and the 3 little ones die.
I know this is fiction but how many times do we hear of PPD or murder suicide or homeschooling wackos????
This episode just tugged at me....
The controlling man.... I don't go for those... I want to smack them upside the head.
He manipulated his wife, he made her think she wasn't good enough, she couldn't live up to his schedule of expectations, she was clinically depressed.
I had 4 kids in 7 years, I know what it's like. I had some PPD after the third, not realizing it at the time...
Of course I don't have an asshole for a husband!
Controlling dad, post partum depressed mom with 4 kids under 7....
Oh my God! It was awesome and awful!
All she wanted was to be a good mother. He controlled her, he made schedules, he encouraged HOMEschooling!
He discouraged therapy and treatment for PPD.
So she decides to kill herself and take her kids with her. Except she and her oldest survive and the 3 little ones die.
I know this is fiction but how many times do we hear of PPD or murder suicide or homeschooling wackos????
This episode just tugged at me....
The controlling man.... I don't go for those... I want to smack them upside the head.
He manipulated his wife, he made her think she wasn't good enough, she couldn't live up to his schedule of expectations, she was clinically depressed.
I had 4 kids in 7 years, I know what it's like. I had some PPD after the third, not realizing it at the time...
Of course I don't have an asshole for a husband!
Unconscious Mutterings
- Burrito :: Mexican, beef
- Spike :: Lee, heels
- Tougher :: I'm tougher than you think
- Mock :: Don't mock me
- Slurp :: Slurpee
- Knock :: knock, who's there?
- Conference :: Unschooling conference, I would love to attend someday
- Madness :: I love the madness
- Minds :: powerful minds, criminal minds
- Connection :: Everything is a connection,
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Jared's airplanes
Jared made several paper airplanes and here are some of them. He has the Russian military and the US Military. He looked up the words in Russian and wrote it on the side of the plane.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
No title?
I get myself into discussions and feel misunderstood. For me, it would be easier if we were sitting next to each other having a conversation. I have gotten better at written communication but I am not a prolific writer and I tend to really try to get to the point and lose a lot between head and fingers.
This whole unschooling thing, trying to discuss it, what it is, what it isn't...
I have my own opinions and you can disagree with me all you want.
If there were no school, there would be no unschooling. It would just be living :)
I abhor the system, and if people want to hold on and cling to it and try to be unschoolers and still use the system, who am I to tell them not to?
The truth is I am a rare breed and I want absolutely nothing to do with the system period.
It irritates the hell out of me that the government thinks they have rights to my children and what and how my children learn.
We live and learn as if school didn't exist. It's so simple to me yet apparantly so complex to many.
I would do away with the system, it proves useless, damaging and completely dysfunctional.
The focus on money, tests, grades and standards is wrong.
What about the children?
They are people, they deserve to be trusted and respected, they deserve to have free reign over their own minds and bodies.
The fact that you have to ask permission to pee is appalling.
Control the masses, that is the purpose of school, it has nothing to do with education or real learning.
I know that the school system generates over 50% of the GNP I can't recall the actual number. It would totally screw up society as we know it if school just stopped.
Think about what happens when a traffic light goes out. The sheeples don't know what to do, confusion and accidents ensue because people are so used to be told what to do and when to do it. When left to actually think for themselves and problem solve they are clueless.
Yes there are exceptions to this, I'm one of them and I know several who are. The sad truth is that the masses are dumb and can't think for themselves.
Why continue to support a system that is truly detrimental to our society?
Don't know, I want no part of it.
If more people actually stood up or withdrew from the system it would fall.
This whole unschooling thing, trying to discuss it, what it is, what it isn't...
I have my own opinions and you can disagree with me all you want.
If there were no school, there would be no unschooling. It would just be living :)
I abhor the system, and if people want to hold on and cling to it and try to be unschoolers and still use the system, who am I to tell them not to?
The truth is I am a rare breed and I want absolutely nothing to do with the system period.
It irritates the hell out of me that the government thinks they have rights to my children and what and how my children learn.
We live and learn as if school didn't exist. It's so simple to me yet apparantly so complex to many.
I would do away with the system, it proves useless, damaging and completely dysfunctional.
The focus on money, tests, grades and standards is wrong.
What about the children?
They are people, they deserve to be trusted and respected, they deserve to have free reign over their own minds and bodies.
The fact that you have to ask permission to pee is appalling.
Control the masses, that is the purpose of school, it has nothing to do with education or real learning.
I know that the school system generates over 50% of the GNP I can't recall the actual number. It would totally screw up society as we know it if school just stopped.
Think about what happens when a traffic light goes out. The sheeples don't know what to do, confusion and accidents ensue because people are so used to be told what to do and when to do it. When left to actually think for themselves and problem solve they are clueless.
Yes there are exceptions to this, I'm one of them and I know several who are. The sad truth is that the masses are dumb and can't think for themselves.
Why continue to support a system that is truly detrimental to our society?
Don't know, I want no part of it.
If more people actually stood up or withdrew from the system it would fall.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Unschooling
There seems to be a *thing* about what unschooling is, who is an unschooler, what's the difference between unschooling and radical unschooling?
I have written many times about my take on this.
It seems that the people who get their panties in a wad about some of us trying to *define* unschooling are the ones who aren't really unschooling.
I really don't care what you do. My concern comes in when people say thay are unschoolers BUT...
Either you are or you aren't. It's really simple for me, black and white. I know it's not that simple for all.
Why do people want to join the unschooling movement and still hold on to schoolish ways? I don't know the answer to that. They are the ones who muddy the waters, they are ones who confuse newbies, they are the ones who say I'm an unschooler not an unparent.
Hello!!!!
We parent in partnership not as authoritarian adversaries.
We are parents, we are unschoolers. Unparenting is neglect, plain and simple.
So many things are just plain to me.
I have completely DEschooled, I have no more school hang ups. If you don't deschool you will never unschool.
If you hold on to anything from the school model you won't unschool.
You need to step away, exam, shift your paradigm. Be a bold, non -conformist, just let go.
You need to deschool and leave your kids alone. Do not impose your hang ups on them!
Kids learn naturally until they are forced otherwise.
Get over yourself and let your kids live and learn in freedom.
Learning is as natural as breathing and my 4 always UNschooled kids are proof of that.
So unschooling means something, it's not do whatever and call it unschooling.
John Holt first coined the term and he meant no school. Unschooling means no schooling whatsover and so much more.
Educate yourself!
I have written many times about my take on this.
It seems that the people who get their panties in a wad about some of us trying to *define* unschooling are the ones who aren't really unschooling.
I really don't care what you do. My concern comes in when people say thay are unschoolers BUT...
Either you are or you aren't. It's really simple for me, black and white. I know it's not that simple for all.
Why do people want to join the unschooling movement and still hold on to schoolish ways? I don't know the answer to that. They are the ones who muddy the waters, they are ones who confuse newbies, they are the ones who say I'm an unschooler not an unparent.
Hello!!!!
We parent in partnership not as authoritarian adversaries.
We are parents, we are unschoolers. Unparenting is neglect, plain and simple.
So many things are just plain to me.
I have completely DEschooled, I have no more school hang ups. If you don't deschool you will never unschool.
If you hold on to anything from the school model you won't unschool.
You need to step away, exam, shift your paradigm. Be a bold, non -conformist, just let go.
You need to deschool and leave your kids alone. Do not impose your hang ups on them!
Kids learn naturally until they are forced otherwise.
Get over yourself and let your kids live and learn in freedom.
Learning is as natural as breathing and my 4 always UNschooled kids are proof of that.
So unschooling means something, it's not do whatever and call it unschooling.
John Holt first coined the term and he meant no school. Unschooling means no schooling whatsover and so much more.
Educate yourself!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Unconscious Mutterings
- Suitcase :: pack for a trip
- Exhaust :: tail pipe
- Olympics :: sports
- Video :: game
- Cargo :: ship
- Previously :: before
- Wild card :: jack
- Artificial :: school is artificial, unschooling is natural
- Gambling :: betting
- Exhibition :: game
Saturday, February 13, 2010
John Holt quote
Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and 'fans,' driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves.
Peri-Menopause support
I started a group on facebook and it's up to 52 members.
Please join us if you are experiencing the hormonal issues of peri menopause.
Peri- menopause support
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Please join us if you are experiencing the hormonal issues of peri menopause.
Peri- menopause support
If we aren't facebook friends, look me up, follow the widget in the sidebar I just added.
bombing
Well I'm bombing out on the NaBloPoMo this month.
My life is...well it's my life. My hormone imbalance and anxiety are keeping me in a weird state most of the time.
I guess I lost some of my edge when it comes to writing down my thoughts and opinions.
We recently moved and there is still so much to do to get settled in. I know there is no hurry, we don't plan on moving again for a long time. We really like this house :)
I have just been in contact with another doctor and I think this one can really help me.
We are going to start with adrenal testing and then do the complete hormonal panel, this time it's saliva testing which is far more accurate than blood tests.
Even though I'm on Bio-identical estrogen, I still have way too many symptoms, thing is I'm worse when I'm off the cream.
Anyway, I'll let you know how this goes and will post some info on it as I learn. I know many of my blog friends are coming into peri menopause too.
I want to be free from these symptoms, I want my mind and body to work together because right now all they do is argue all day.
My life is...well it's my life. My hormone imbalance and anxiety are keeping me in a weird state most of the time.
I guess I lost some of my edge when it comes to writing down my thoughts and opinions.
We recently moved and there is still so much to do to get settled in. I know there is no hurry, we don't plan on moving again for a long time. We really like this house :)
I have just been in contact with another doctor and I think this one can really help me.
We are going to start with adrenal testing and then do the complete hormonal panel, this time it's saliva testing which is far more accurate than blood tests.
Even though I'm on Bio-identical estrogen, I still have way too many symptoms, thing is I'm worse when I'm off the cream.
Anyway, I'll let you know how this goes and will post some info on it as I learn. I know many of my blog friends are coming into peri menopause too.
I want to be free from these symptoms, I want my mind and body to work together because right now all they do is argue all day.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
My day
First it started with some anxiety really early, like an ungodly hour. I wake up way earlier than I ever used to having issues. Anyway I took some xanax and fell to sleep for a couple hours.
I had errands to run, things to do, places to go. I was all dressed up and went to start the car and it was deader than a doornail.
So that put a wrench in my plans.
After Jason got home he jumped it, turns out there was a light left on and it killed the battery.
I took the van and two kids and went to JcPenney's, which is near where we used to live.
It's no big deal except that it started to snow.
While we were shopping it snowed a lot. The ground was covered, it was thick and slushy.
I don't like snow and really don't care to drive in it. I figured after leaving PA that I wouldn't ever have to drive in it.
Who knew?
So I saw someone in the ditch on my way home.
Once I got to the freeway it was just really wet, kind of slushy but enough traffic that it wasn't snow covered.
Still, I was a little nervous, drove between 40 and 50 mph, which is what the flow was.
I thought that since my plans were derailed that I wasn't supposed to go out then. I have learned that these things happen for reasons I do not know.
But then to be thrust into a situation that I am uncomfortable with makes me wonder as well.
I said ok God, get me home safe!
All is well :)
To make things even more odd, the snow turned to rain, the temps went up, it is raining and snow is on the ground.
Go figure!
I had errands to run, things to do, places to go. I was all dressed up and went to start the car and it was deader than a doornail.
So that put a wrench in my plans.
After Jason got home he jumped it, turns out there was a light left on and it killed the battery.
I took the van and two kids and went to JcPenney's, which is near where we used to live.
It's no big deal except that it started to snow.
While we were shopping it snowed a lot. The ground was covered, it was thick and slushy.
I don't like snow and really don't care to drive in it. I figured after leaving PA that I wouldn't ever have to drive in it.
Who knew?
So I saw someone in the ditch on my way home.
Once I got to the freeway it was just really wet, kind of slushy but enough traffic that it wasn't snow covered.
Still, I was a little nervous, drove between 40 and 50 mph, which is what the flow was.
I thought that since my plans were derailed that I wasn't supposed to go out then. I have learned that these things happen for reasons I do not know.
But then to be thrust into a situation that I am uncomfortable with makes me wonder as well.
I said ok God, get me home safe!
All is well :)
To make things even more odd, the snow turned to rain, the temps went up, it is raining and snow is on the ground.
Go figure!
Monday, February 08, 2010
Unconscious Mutterings
- Humbled :: taken down a notch
- Buns :: I love buns :)
- Snowstorm :: sucks, I don't like snow
- Sweetheart :: Jason is my sweetheart
- Punch :: in the nose
- Glass :: half empty or half full?
- Classical :: music isn't my thing
- Heels :: head over heels in love
- Twitter :: still trying to get the hang of twitter
- Husband :: My husband rocks!
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Kids are fun
My kids just crack me up!
Kieran recently joined facebook and we sit next to each other and leave comments on each others status.
Last night we were talking about their births and weird stuff during my pregnancies.
We were all laughing so hard. One thing leads to the next and we were almost rolling on the floor.
They are bright and witty and have an awesome sense of humor.
I love my kids, I love BEing with my kids.
My kids rock!
Kieran recently joined facebook and we sit next to each other and leave comments on each others status.
Last night we were talking about their births and weird stuff during my pregnancies.
We were all laughing so hard. One thing leads to the next and we were almost rolling on the floor.
They are bright and witty and have an awesome sense of humor.
I love my kids, I love BEing with my kids.
My kids rock!
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Damn! Can't tie me to a schedule.
Well, I was busy today and Flo showed up so I've been drinking wine and heating up my heating pad and catching up on the DVR.
I missed it by and hour!
I tried, I'll keep trying.
I signed up for NaBloPoMo to get me back into blogging, so in that respect it worked.
I just won't win any awards for it. I'm cool with that I don't need an award.
I don't do schedules very well.
My routine is loose and varied.
Ah the life of a free unschooler :)
I missed it by and hour!
I tried, I'll keep trying.
I signed up for NaBloPoMo to get me back into blogging, so in that respect it worked.
I just won't win any awards for it. I'm cool with that I don't need an award.
I don't do schedules very well.
My routine is loose and varied.
Ah the life of a free unschooler :)
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Tying Shoes
Remember when learning how to tie your shoes was a huge milestone that had to be pushed by a young age?
I could tie my shoes when I was 3, big deal!
I remember when velcro became popular so little kids could just put their shoes on with ease.
I think they used to teach shoe tying in Kindergarten.
Cassie used to tie up everything in the house with ropes, strings, Jason's ties, whatever she could find long before she ever tied her own shoes. It was really funny, then one day she tied her shoes.
Jared is 7 and doesn't tie his shoes yet, it's really no big deal, he'll learn when he is ready just like everything else.
I could tie my shoes when I was 3, big deal!
I remember when velcro became popular so little kids could just put their shoes on with ease.
I think they used to teach shoe tying in Kindergarten.
Cassie used to tie up everything in the house with ropes, strings, Jason's ties, whatever she could find long before she ever tied her own shoes. It was really funny, then one day she tied her shoes.
Jared is 7 and doesn't tie his shoes yet, it's really no big deal, he'll learn when he is ready just like everything else.
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