It's not forced, not tested. It's voluntary, purposeful, and the achievements are our own.
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one year of the best bits
I'm going to finish this year out. Don't try and stop me. If I don't get to December last year I'll blow a fuse. In the meantime, go to gritsday, where I like to keep things whiny. (Yes, I know that's late, too.)
And check out what I have already put up here, where I get to show off what it means to take responsibility for your children's education.
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We've educated through the primary years out of the classroom because we think the government's boring, narrow curriculum, unimaginative, force-fed delivery, and repetitive drilling and testing regime takes the fun out of everything. It makes children passive recipients of someone else's knowledge.
In the real world my kids learn in society; they learn alongside professionals, using real tools, real skills, real knowledge.
We get to be together as a family, too! Yah for us! We can travel, see places together, do things because we damn well all enjoy being together, even though sometimes killing each other seems like a really fine idea.
Then there's the play. Real, serious, hour after hour intense play. The home of creativity; the place where artists, poets, thinkers, scholars, inquiring, active minds are nurtured.
So you could say this blog exists so the beauty of an education without a conventional 9-4 schooling system can shine!
But there's another motive informing this daily record of success. Because I want to shove two fingers up at ignorance.
Here is a comment on a list in 2009: 'home educators do not have the monopoly on good parenting'.
You could hear the phrase 'smug bastards' rising in that person's throat.
Yeah.
We are home educators.
We have a right to be smug.
And check out what I have already put up here, where I get to show off what it means to take responsibility for your children's education.
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We've educated through the primary years out of the classroom because we think the government's boring, narrow curriculum, unimaginative, force-fed delivery, and repetitive drilling and testing regime takes the fun out of everything. It makes children passive recipients of someone else's knowledge.
In the real world my kids learn in society; they learn alongside professionals, using real tools, real skills, real knowledge.
We get to be together as a family, too! Yah for us! We can travel, see places together, do things because we damn well all enjoy being together, even though sometimes killing each other seems like a really fine idea.
Then there's the play. Real, serious, hour after hour intense play. The home of creativity; the place where artists, poets, thinkers, scholars, inquiring, active minds are nurtured.
So you could say this blog exists so the beauty of an education without a conventional 9-4 schooling system can shine!
But there's another motive informing this daily record of success. Because I want to shove two fingers up at ignorance.
Here is a comment on a list in 2009: 'home educators do not have the monopoly on good parenting'.
You could hear the phrase 'smug bastards' rising in that person's throat.
Yeah.
We are home educators.
We have a right to be smug.
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- Working with books comes natural
- Motivation comes from each of us
- Where do you want to go today?
- The washing up piles in the sink
- The world is our classroom
- In play, imagination and reality merge
- We are everyday outdoors somewhere
- There is always time for play
- Taking part in this society...
- We decide what we like to do, when we like to do it
- We can carry out activities for a real purpose
- Shopping for chocolate
- Oops. Reading at 11pm?
- Free to go at a moment's notice
- Origami for five hours? Fine.
- Who said that children have short attention spans?
- Home educators get everywhere
- Geography is pie shaped
- School league tables?
- I don't have to fight off the lunch box police.
- Going to the library isn't an educational activity
- My kids can work at the computer all day
- We can be miserable in a post office queue
- We can read 'Skellig' at one sitting
- We can eat supper with friends to 10pm
- We play in the snow
- We can experiment for two hours with water
- We can spend the day dressed as a cat
- Our kids learn any skill they like
- You can cook and eat apple pie
- Kids can spend as long as they want exploring ICE
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