TOPIC: Re: Rummy
-=>> Quoting Regina Finan to Bruce Roeser <=-
 RF>> This is my first year of homeschooling and although I have made my
 RF>> own curriculum I still at times get caught up into what conventional
 RF>> teaching and curriculums are.  I'm learning too.  I know now that as
 RF>> long as it is a learning experience it is school.  Thanks.
 BR>   My wife, Cheryl, has been dealing with that same struggle.  She's
 BR>   beginning to loosen up on it now, but was very much trying to craft
 BR>   her schooling around a traditional approach.  We're to the point now
 BR>   where we realize that just about *any* learning experience can be
 BR>   written down as school time.  When I take my daughters out for tennis
 BR>   that counts as Phys Ed., etc.  It's all very legal, particularly when
 BR>   you keep some kind of portfolio of the work to demonstrate the
 BR>   learning.  Here in Florida, all that's really required is periodic
 BR>   testing and evaluation to "ensure that the student is performing at a
 BR>   level 'commensurate with their abilities'".  Now ain't that statement
 BR>   a bunch of double-talk?
Hi, we've been homeschooling for about five years now.  And we too have
chosen to home-school vice school at home.  We use a lot of literature in a
semi-strucyured environment with SonLight Curriculum.  Then you can go even
further out with the "Unschooling" approach, a little bit too looose for us.
BTW, we have four children, so less structured approach allows us to use
one-room schoolroom approach, and NOT 4 sets of math textbooks, four sets of
science textbooks, etc.
  ~ John
John Pilla
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