Wonderful piece on unschooling in the Calgary Herald

[threeforme]

Originally Posted by lhastie

But you don't know who's who is the issue and it doesn't seem to be uncommon!

It's frustrating for those in the media who do good work. I'm not saying the skepticism isn't warranted, just saying that not everyone in the media is like that. There are those in the media who's work is a great public service.

[lhastie]

Originally Posted by dressage mom

Yeah, it's quite the opposite, isn't it? I mean, that's what school does -- decontextualizes, takes things apart, and feeds it back to kids in a piece-meal kind of way.

I found that quote so funny, myself.

Yeah, I loved the earlier example about Cheetahs, the daughter had learned about the animal, countries, geography, you name it all around Cheetahs... a class unit in younger grades would have been divided to only include some aspects in most cases...

Originally Posted by threeforme

It's frustrating for those in the media who do good work. I'm not saying the skepticism isn't warranted, just saying that not everyone in the media is like that. There are those in the media who's work is a great public service.

I agree. My husband is much more jaded than I am and doesn't believe anything in the media these days, so he is taking me down with him.... Being in the US doesn't help in some ways with some of the crazy groups here that are much more mainstream I just wish there was a good filter for 'just plain information' versus 'bias and sensationalized'!