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RE: Re: Unschooling ?? - 9/19/2010 1:03:51 PM

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Chewsie, I'm confused. Why does he have to be a lawyer even if he hates it? If he could be a great veterinarian, but a lousy lawyer, then why demand he be a lawyer instead?

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RE: Re: Unschooling ?? - 9/19/2010 3:03:47 PM

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We are not unschoolers but we do homeschool. We have toyed with the unschooling idea but you have to -really- be an involved parent to be able to strew things in the child's path and really be on top of their passions. I think we are both a little more formal in our thinking. We require a pretty rigorous curriculum so he can get into a good undergrad program which will be followed by a good law school. He is free to pursue what he wants (right now that is veterinary medicine) but not until after he attends law school. So the unschooling looks incredible to us but wouldn't meet the goals we have set for him. We believe law school to be as fundamental as algebra after that he can go his own way. So until then we choose(with his input) the curriculum that will best meet those goals.

Here is a link to radical unschooling a site run by Sandra Dodd. We have seen her speak a few times and we love the idea but it wouldn't work for us.

http://sandradodd.com/unschooling

I am unsure of how you are planning to force him to go to law school. You do realize that he will be (around) 22 by that time? You do realize that he will have to pass the LSAT? What better way to keep from going to law school than by flunking the LSAT.

You also realize that his undergrad major would need to be different for law school or vet school? One is a liberal arts track and one is a sciences track.

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RE: Re: Unschooling ?? - 9/19/2010 3:10:13 PM

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Unschooling sounds like homeschooling.

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RE: Re: Unschooling ?? - 9/19/2010 3:10:48 PM

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Depending on the subject I loved learning at school, but I hated school. I was an outsider an had no friends and was always picked on and my learning disability, often times had the teachers telling me things like I was lazy, or wanted them to do the work for me, or they just flat out didn't have the ability to work with me the way I needed to be worked with.

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Damned few. But those who do this are passionate about learning. Now how many kids in a public school can that be said about?

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