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- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Homeschooling?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.142754.14536@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:27:54 EDT
- References: <1992Aug17.161034.16444@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <16163@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- In article <16163@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>,
- darsie@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Richard Darsie) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug17.161034.16444@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, spf@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm) writes:
- >>
- >> Is there a newsgroup or mailing list pertaining to homeschooling?
- >> We're seriously considering going this route, and would love to converse
- >> with folks who know more about it than we do.
- >
- > Can't help with the newsgroup, but I can offer lots of moral support.
- > I'd encourage you to read, if you ever have second thoughts about it,
- > a book called "Dumbing us Down", by John Taylor Gatto, former Teacher
- > of the Year in New York State. It's available through the New Society
- > Press (I'll bring the address tomorrow if you're interested in
- > following through). This book is a searing indictment of the public
- > school system and really exposes, IMHO, the ethical and spiritual
- > bankruptcy of the whole system (I am not a Christian, so that's not
- > where I'm coming from with these comments). In a nutshell, he says
- > that schools have a "hidden curriculum" which is designed to produce
- > willing cogs in our industrial society, i.e., ravenous consumers,
- > people who follow orders, and who can't think for themselves.
- >
- > Richard
-
- I also can offer moral support. John Gatto's ideas got me started in home-
- schooling. Public schools have a "hidden cirriculum" and a hidden purpose;
- to allow parents to work as willing cogs in our industrial society by
- separating them from their children. Homeschooling allows one to grow with
- the child as you explore together what they would learn in school as well
- as whatever you think would contribute to making your children the emotionally
- healthiest, happiest, etc people they ca be.
-