tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6038056.post110624643305264308..comments2023-11-22T03:53:30.454-05:00Comments on Ramblings of an Unschooling Family: Laura Riesenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03519667820555752216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6038056.post-1106490232886166632005-01-23T09:23:00.000-05:002005-01-23T09:23:00.000-05:00Kim,
The way she had it set up, the kids sat at a...Kim,<br /><br />The way she had it set up, the kids sat at a table (about 8 across) in the front of the room. They had nametags in front of them. The ones with black names where those who chose highschool and those with red names chose to continue homeschooling (made it easy for people to know who was who). She started out with 2 questions for them each to answer ...state your homescooling experience (for example homeschooled since 2nd grade, always homescooled, etc) and what you are currently doing (in highschool, still homescooling, other) and why you made that choice. After that she just opened it to the room for questions and people either asked them to everyone or a specific panelist. Things went well. She did give us a couple of handouts with resources for parents. I can email the info to you if you would like.<br /><br />Improvements I would have made: <br />1)microphones or a room with better aucostics. Sometimes it was hard to hear the kids.<br />2) I would have tried to get at least one panelist who had homeschooled all the way through and was in college (so the kids in attendance could see that homeschooling can lead to college)<br />3)I would have had at least one private school kid on the panel. All of the kids on our panel were attending public school and all of them said they felt they were free to return to homeschooling at any time. I think that the answer may have been different from a child whose parents were paying tuition (at least that is how I feel since Brett is considering a school that tuition cost $7000 and I can't see me letting him come back home after a couple of weeks if I have paid that much money. I think I would make him stick out the year and then stay home the following year).Laura Riesenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519667820555752216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6038056.post-1106280703602639522005-01-20T23:11:00.000-05:002005-01-20T23:11:00.000-05:00Wow, what a brilliant idea to have a meeting for t...Wow, what a brilliant idea to have a meeting for that. My homeschool group has a few kids who are thinking it over too. I bet it would be useful for them to talk with other kids who made similar decisions. Was there any format to the meeting that was particularly helpful which you could recommend? <br />Thanks,<br />Kim<br />http://bradley.chicago.il.us/kim/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com