This is for Deanne and Nance, for “freerangelife” and all of us driven crazy by former school board member Julia Steiny’s school-centric view of kids and families over the years, unfortunately right up to and including her column last week as discussed here at Snook.
The good news is, she heard from homeschoolers on that last one — heard, understood AND acknowledged, the military HUA* trifecta — and now she wants to apologize, or explain, or start a dialogue, something less tin-eared than before, anyway! And I intend to take her at her words, which sound pretty darn sincere to me, and that IS a start.
*HUA or HOOAH: “The term is an expression of high morale, confidence, motivation and spirit.”
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“Home-schooling: Where Educating
Children Comes First”Judging by my e-mail, last week’s column offended a
large number of families who teach their children at
home . . .
I apologize for raising their blood pressures . . . This column observes all kinds of kids and programs, but I admit home-schooling gets short shrift.. . . Ryan is entirely correct that we must stop organizing schooling of all kinds for the benefit of the grownups. The system needs to be turned on its head so the kids and their families come first.
We need to empower all the parents with more options. Including the home-schoolers.
I just posted about this over on the PDE list. It does seem like a good article from Miss Julia.
Nance
HOOAH!
Wow!
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