[Magdalen] Chicken pox

[Sibyl Smirl]

But one thing that won't change about it is that kids are forced into a 
room with a bunch of other kids for 8 or so hours a day every weekday. 
Jay mentioned the boy who may have Asperger's, and we Aspies need more 
solitude--that much socialization is like a heavy, continuous pressure. 
  I've begun to suspect that my regular winter Depression may have 
developed from exactly that, as a defense.

On 12/27/15 6:12 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> ...and 'regular' school has/is morphing before our eyes...
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 27, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is unfortunate that homeschooling has come to equal "uneducated
> fundamentalist". I argue against that constantly, as I have known more
> people who don't fit that mold than who do. Most of the kids I know who are
> or have been homeschooled have been so because either they don't fit the
> mold of the school, or because their parents wanted to give them more than
> the schools were giving them, or because the school situation was simply
> untenable (distance, time spent on school bus, or something of that sort).
>
> We have a boy in our rock club who fits the first description. He is an
> absolutely delightful young man, but he's one of those kids who simply does
> not belong in a regular school setting. Public school, and most private
> schools, would just eat him alive. He may have a slight touch of
> Asperger's, or may just be a burgeoning adult too soon with no patience for
> the usual "kid stuff". In any case, he is far ahead of his age group
> academically and in many  other  ways, while being behind it physically.
> He's fine around adults and around kids like himself. We also have a girl
> who's a senior in high school and HATES high school. She's taking classes
> at the community college and can't  wait to graduate and "get the hell out
> of hell" as she puts it. She probably should have been homeschooled but her
> parents couldn't swing it because of work scheduling. Some kids just don't
> belong in regular school.
>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> R&H were homeschooled. Please don't conflate one decision with the other.
>>
>> Peace,
>> Jo
>>
>>
>>
>>>> On Dec 26, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I know, Jo, I know!  But in this area there are lots of
>> unvaccinated--because homeschooled--kids. There's no way to make those
>> parents vaccinate their kids, if they don't want to.
>>>
>>>> On Dec 26, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oh, yeah? That's only because the rest of us effin' vaccinated... <grrr>
>>>>
>>>> Peace,
>>>> Jo <-- whose children just missed cpox vaccine availability and were
>> *miserable* but otherwise unharmed, TBTG and scientists
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/26/2015 4:14 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>>>>> This is the first "childhood disease" any of the kids have
>> gotten--we're talking five kids over 23 years, so I know he has felt
>> vindicated.
>>
>
>


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