In a message of , Donna Ransdell (1:202/211) writes:  >I 
personally think a midstream approach would be appropriate for 
 >homeschooling 
I think that this is indeed the approach most take, if only because an 
individualized approach to education means you take advantage of strengths 
and weaknesses and adapt to them.
- for some things, ya just "gotta" sit down and work at it 
 >(grammar, writing, spelling). For other things, tho, the project or 
 >just-do-it approach would work well....science comes to mind here.
As a dyed-in-the-wool unschooler, I disagree.  For us, much of unschooling 
means it is learner-directed, not teacher-directed.  Thus a child who wishes 
to use a textbook is unschooling because it is the student's choice involved. 
 And the resources in the world involved with math facts or grammar are 
astonishing - which is why they are basics.  I have had my eldest upset 
because I was not reading aloud from a grammar book, we have discussed word 
origins and word order (just learned it and its are derived from hit and his 
and him, the h dropped off), read the books by Ruth Heller about words 
(Merry-Go-Round, Abook about Nouns, Many Luscious Lollipops, A Book about 
Adjectives, etc.) for fun  - so spelling and arithmetic and etc. are just as 
natural as walking and talking.
Cindy in Wisconsin 
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