[stylist] question

[Angela fowler]

What is unschooling? Now you've really got me curious. (smile) 

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Angela:

When people talk about the left and the right, what they have in mind is a
quite narrow spectrum.  At least, on one level.  Take the ideological level.
All the pot-banging on this or that issue that makes the headlines.  But if
you go father right, as you go along farther and farther right, you're not
going right, but you're spiraling, but this is spiraling deeper.  As you go
deeper the more seriously right you go, you'll probably find that you
actually disagree with some of the silly pot-banging that's on the right and
that you agree, or at least are on the same side of an issue, with the
pot-banging leftists.  

Or if you start on the left, but you want to probe deeper, you'll likely
find yourself intersecting in agreement, or on the same side, with the
right.  

Why does this happen?  Because neither side is consistent from the shilly
ideology all the way down to core principles.  Either side's core principles
have merit, I believe, but the way they're applied goes all over the place.
Correct me if I am mistaken on this point.

But let me give you one example.  Homeschooling is a popular conservative
pot-banging issue.  Some support homeschooling because they want the family
to be responsible for it, and to instill the family's religious values in
their children, and to have the children stay away from the wickedness that
goes on in public schools.  That reasoning is on a certain level.  And a
core conservative principle would support this.  "We don't want big
government messing with how we raise our own children."  

And I love you all conservatives for protecting our right to homeschool our
children!  But my reasons for supporting homeschooling come from a totally
different place, well left of the left who supports public education, wants
to tax and spend more on education, and come up with an endless stream of
fixes to problems caused by its half-baked attempts to apply core principles
that I happen to agree with to some degree but the problem for me is that
the left in power in education isn't left enough.  

My wife and I homeschool our three sons, only the approach we use is
actually called unschooling.  Conservatives actually hate unschooling; to
them it's too far left, it's crazy, and it runs counter to their beliefs
about how best to homeschool kids.  But unschooling is made possible by the
right to homeschooling, which the conservatives protect.

I don't know if this makes any sense.  But this is one good example of how
you could go left and so deep or far in that direction that you find
yourself perfectly aligned with the right on a general issue.

I hope this helps?

John





 

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