UNSCHOOLING: THE NEXT HORIZON IN EDUCATION?
Monday, January 29, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

It's not exactly a brand-new ideal; in fact some theorists claim it was the original method for educating children. Whatever the case, the phenomenon of "unschooling" has seen a rebirth recently, as more and more parents lose faith and patience with the effects of conventional education.

According to a story in the Tennessean, focusing on several local families engaged in this homeschooling variation, the emphasis on making the child the primary, and often the only, decision-maker in picking curriculums. Whereas conventional schooling involves strictly regimented classes, timeframes and topics determined by outsiders, and even homeschooling often implies parent-developed curricula, under the unschooling model a child does pretty much whatever he or she desires to, with the stipulation that it involve some type of learning activity.

Some alleged "education experts," the story notes, along with more than a few homeschooling advocates, are reportedly concerned that the methods might lead to "learning gaps." However, at least in the cases of the families interviewed, the fears seem unfounded. As one unschooling mother is quoted as saying, "Honestly, what do children really need to know when they graduate from high school � to balance their checkbook, change the oil in the car and check the tire pressure, real-life things. I think those things are just as important as history, math and reading." - ST

[Students need to know about money and credit and bills as much as anything. Very few need theoretical knowledge; all need practical knowledge. Public schooling is a way to give the lies of the judeo-left a level playing field.]

Finding brilliance in all children is possible
Part I of two parts
By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com

Is it possible to discover the brilliance within each child in a public school setting where conformity takes precedence over passion, where young minds are shaped according to an agenda rather than nurtured and personal fervor takes a back seat to rote memorization?

Educator Resa Steindel Brown, author of the newly released book, "The Call To Brilliance," believes every child is born with a wealth of passion and surprising talents. As a mother, she should know. Brown's family tale turns public education's conventions on their head and could double as a blueprint for change.

Brown heads the Las Virgenes Unified School District's home independent study program, commonly known as homeschooling. She has been a teacher for 36 years and is credentialed in all grade levels from kindergarten through 12th grade as well as college.

"The Call To Brilliance" weaves Brown's personal triumph over a cookie cutter education in 1960s Los Angeles with the incredible story of her three homeschooled children. All are now thriving adults whose individualism might have been improperly labeled a disorder by today's No Child Left Behind standards.

The No Child Left Behind Act leaves more children behind than ever, according to Brown. Children can't move forward, she said, when teachers are tied to the text and the text is tied to state standards. "It's too easy for some, too hard for others," Brown said. "We want children to learn on their own."

"I decided to use my background as a vehicle to explain how we evolved in the education system in the last 50 years," she said. She believes the system is based on an 1850s industrial age model when it was important to ready the children of farmers for work in factories.

Brown attended school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She remembers the hope and passion she had on her first day of kindergarten, only to have such passion zapped away by third grade when her teacher publicly ridiculed an art project after Brown made the mistake of not matching certain colors.

Brown's juxtaposition of her educational journey with her children's vastly different experience is shocking. When Brown's first child, Stephen, didn't quite fit the public kindergarten mold 23 years ago, Brown opted to teach him at home.

Stephen was different from the children in his play group, she said, describing him as "pure kinetic motion" in her book. Stephen didn't read until he was 9, yet entered college at 12. Now 28, he holds a master's degree from UCLA in computer electronics. Erin, 25, is now finishing her doctorate in applied mathematics.

Brown's youngest son, Matthew, didn't read until he was 11, but within a year he was attending college. He graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in science in mathematics/applied science management and accounting, with a specialization in computing. He has just published his first book.

Brown said she homeschooled all of her children and let their talents rise naturally from their interests and passions. They learned through play, laughter and life.

Brown believes Stephen and Matthew would have been labeled with a variety of learning disabilities had they been in public school, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia and dysgraphia, a writing difficulty, had they been placed in public school.

"Had they been sorted, tested and labeled when they were little, they would not have had the confidence to excel," Brown writes in her book. "Their behaviors would have been molded to defeat, their minds forced to follow the format and their bodies pinned behind their desks. Their failures would have been reinforced in report card after report card. They would have lost touch with their true identities- the particular genius each child has at birth."

Matthew was dyslexic and even spoke in his own language. His sister understood him, but few others could decipher his odd chatter. He was given speech lessons, but the speech pathologist predicted Matthew would never properly read.

Reading readiness is a neurological milestone, Brown said. In public education, all children are expected to read at approximately the same time, and controlling the behavior of children may be more pernicious than forcing reading upon children before their brains are ready. Brown called social conditioning "a form of testing and conditioning that is reinforced daily- a form that will dispense their self-concepts and frame their sense of self worth."

Brown said she hopes her book will inspire change in the Las Virgenes district. Multiage classrooms would top her list of adjustments to more kidfriendly classrooms. "Kids are all at different levels anyway," Brown said. "No one feels badly wherever they are. If we could create these kinds of schools inside our school system- and we can- all we have to do is restructure. We would find children's passion and talents, and we would have brilliance everywhere."

Brown will be signing her book from noon to 2 p.m. Sat., Feb. 10 at the Thousand Oaks postal annex, 1336 Moorpark Road, and at 7 p.m. Mon., Feb. 12 at Barnes & Noble in the Westlake Promenade.

For further information, visit www.thecalltobrilliance.com.

http://www.theacorn.com/news/2007/0201/Community/035.html

Even good public school teachers are not intellectuals, hence can hardly be qualified to teach smart children. Right?

Elementary school teachers, for the most part, are young women not married yet. Women aren't intellectual in the best of times. These are not the best of times. The old-school spinsters were ok, but that's not what we're dealing with today.

You need to teach your kids, and that means spending time with them, and cuffing their ears when they make mistakes, and treating them with "you may not be completely defectives" when they get something right.

The best will prosper under stress. The mediocre are useless, so why not send them to be farmed by kinder-gardeners?

Homeschooling = protein
Pubic schooling = high-carb

Even good public school teachers are not intellectuals, hence can hardly be qualified to teach smart children. Right?

Elementary school teachers, for the most part, are young women not married yet. Women aren't intellectual in the best of times. These are not the best of times. The old-school spinsters were ok, but that's not what we're dealing with today.

You need to teach your kids, and that means spending time with them, and cuffing their ears when they make mistakes, and treating them with "you may not be completely defectives" when they get something right.

The best will prosper under stress. The mediocre are useless, so why not send them to be farmed by kinder-gardeners?

Homeschooling = protein
Pubic schooling = high-carb

This past week, yesterday in fact, a local NYC news station (NBC) had a rather lengthy story about the teachers in local public and private (Catholic) schools; dealing primarily with middle school to high school. Not only were the teachers mostly negro or jew; they were also found to be "too young" and inexperienced when it came to class discipline and control. Additionally, many of them could not spell properly and lacked knowledge of proper grammar and were downright incompetent when it came to math and science.

The American education systems are only good for those they are now meant to cater to : the children of illegal immigrants and negroes.

White Children suffer and do not benefit from attending Public or Private Schools.

White children will eventually become adults and be forced to live in the REAL adult world along with the rest of the dregs of nonwhite society.

I originally started my kids in a private school and soon became aware that the teachers there were as bad as any where else,especially the religious schools.

Home schooling?I don't have the credentials to give all the educational benefits to my kids that would be somehow superior to those found in public school.Although I do have two advanced degrees and speak several languages,I do not believe myself to be qualified to teach any child.

Public school is OJT for White Nationalist children.As I tried to teach my children the "right" attitude and ideals of what living a white healthy and happy life were all about and follow the ideals of White Advancement ,I was continually struggling against all the odds of TV,friends and movies ,not to mention the diversity crap at school.

The difference I found between the moderately mixed private school and the heavily mixed public school was that my children received a first hand ,front row seat on the diversity realism tour every damn day.Harsh but very effective if worked well.

Niggers and Spic's all day Evey day.They learned things I never could have told them.Good and bad.

The difference was I took the time to: first ,I had taught them self defense physically and mentally "before " they started public school and they were throughly indoctrinated well in advance before day one.

As the years rolled on; I occasionally did "unscheduled" reconnaissance and extensive surveillances myself personally of the school,the facility and students.I slowly learned all the perceived problems,problem individuals(teachers and school),and school exits-just in case.Only on one occasion did I actually have to "act" ,and then only briefly and unnoticed.

Someplace around third or fourth grade I can remember my kids coming home and telling me stories of what occurred at school and how such and such Nigger or Spic did something and how they had seen and observes it first hand with much disfavor.

I soon became well aware that a very clear "learning principal" was taking place,above anything I was able to communicate to my kids myself.The school system and racial mixing had made my kids more racist than all my previously years of racial talking,stories and warnings combined.Just as I thought it would.

Today they are healthy, white, racially aware survivors who can meet any nonwhite on any contest filed and walk away the winner.At the top of their classes today in major state colleges,where it cost an arm and a leg to pay the Jews to teach them the crap they will need to survive in the real world of diversity-like it or not.

You need to teach your kids, and that means spending time with them, and cuffing their ears when they make mistakes, and treating them with "you may not be completely defectives" when they get something right.

The best will prosper under stress. The mediocre are useless, so why not send them to be farmed by kinder-gardeners?

Cuffing [children's] ears when they make mistakes? What on earth are you talking about?

The mediocre are useless? No, they aren't. I am mediocre in all ways, and I am quite useful, thank you. Maybe not on this forum, but to my family, I am. And no one else matters.

Cuffing [children's] ears when they make mistakes? What on earth are you talking about?

Linder does step over the limits , sometimes . Oh well , you get the whole Linder , sparkle and warts .

The mediocre are useless? No, they aren't. I am mediocre in all ways, and I am quite useful, thank you. Maybe not on this forum, but to my family, I am. And no one else matters.

Aww c'mon , you are pretty bright . Being a good mom , that alone makes you a jewel :)


( Linder is wrong , you never know when the Mediocre student will become the next Edison , Bell or Pelton . Some folks don't blossom early , they take time to come to full flower . .............. he might not be able to conjugate his verbs , but be able to see when a machine is fighting itself and make a discovery that is more important than all the grammarian pedants that ever lived . )

The difference I found between the moderately mixed private school and the heavily mixed public school was that my children received a first hand ,front row seat on the diversity realism tour every damn day.Harsh but very effective if worked well.

Anyone of more that minimal perception can see those facts . you don't have to jump into the cesspool to know that it is dirty .

Niggers and Spic's all day Evey day.They learned things I never could have told them.Good and bad.

How many turds do you have to smell , to realize that they all stink .

The difference was I took the time to: first ,I had taught them self defense physically and mentally "before " they started public school and they were throughly indoctrinated well in advance before day one.

There's no way you can teach a child to dodge a bullet , stray or otherwise . No matter how good the self-defense training , it's damn difficult to deal with 3 or 4 bucks playing with blades .



Your advice could get a kid killed , really !

No matter how well educated and intelligent your kids are , they would be far ahead of their current point , if educated in an all White situation . I well know that 'integrated' schools have a curriculum far below an all White school.

[Students need to know about money and credit and bills as much as anything. Very few need theoretical knowledge; all need practical knowledge. Public schooling is a way to give the lies of the judeo-left a level playing field.][/QUOTE]

That is true , for the individual . But society is moved forward by those with the theoretical and hypothetical knowledge .

If students only learn the mundane practical matters, society becomes a treadmill of repeating all things that have been repeated a million times before .

It's the student that asks ,' is there more heat in red light or blue light, is there something beyond the ends of the spectrum , beyond the blue , beyond the red ?' , that moves our civilization forward .

White Children suffer and do not benefit from attending Public or Private Schools.

Amen to that !


The American education systems are only good for those they are now meant to cater to : the children of illegal immigrants and negroes.

That is why , as Linder has advocated , a internet based system of education has the potential to be a rocket engine for White learning . Combine the unlimited capacity of computers with self-directed self-pacing education and White kids can soar above the rest .

Now , how do we implement the system and develop the resources ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444337&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

http://www.rlynn.co.uk/

Well, with the two links above, you would think any straight White could understand what a crime of hate it is by our lights of the World "jews" to have forced Congoids in to White schools. I attended majority non-White schools and that is something I wish on no-White children. In the remaining White areas of the US White parents who themselves attended White schools when they grew up, and if they had one or two non -Whites in their school they think it non Whites were just okay, but do not understand with today's schools governed by a central regime pumping P.C. as the main course and say 10 to 30% non White's in the class spells the end of a people with any freedom or peace of mind and well being, plus your children will not be pushed to their full potential which is not only important to a family, but to a Nation, if we had such.

only one non White changes the entire flavor in class, every other race and jews have this for their children and including the Rich Whites, but not working class Whites.

( Linder is wrong , you never know when the Mediocre student will become the next Edison , Bell or Pelton. Some folks don't blossom early, they take time to come to full flower .............. he might not be able to conjugate his verbs , but be able to see when a machine is fighting itself and make a discovery that is more important than all the grammarian pedants that ever lived . )


I was mediocre in school because I was an introvert and much more interested in learning stuff than sitting in class and sleeping so I got bored and depressed and it lasted for years. In theory I had plenty of time to blossom but I wasn't where I should have been, I was 'stuck' in school.

So it's not so much time that some of them need but a positive environment where they can actually do something and experience with reality or spend as much time as they want studying things they're interested in.

In school there's no reward for one's efforts, it doesn't matter if you have a natural talent or you're intelligent you still spend the same amount of time doing the same shit as all the other students. High school is four years ? whether you could go through it in less than four or not you still have to stay for four. That's probably the worst morale killer you can experience as a child/teen: being forced not to perform as you could if you were free to do so.

it's painful to think of all the years of my youth wasted in the public school system.