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I heard back from Alfie Kohn in response to my question about John Holt and homeschooling. His anwser was that he likes a lot of what Holt said, especially in his earlier works, but he wouldn’t go as far as Holt and recommend homeschooling for two reasons:
- Public schools are an important democratic institution, one worth preserving and working to support. (And improve.)
- Kids learn a lot from collective intellectual exploration and knowledge testing and construction.
Which makes sense; I can’t say either of those reasons are show-stoppers for me, but they’re both good ones nonetheless.
Fortunately, we have several years to figure all this out. (And perhaps to improve Mountain View’s post-fifth-grade programs.)
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| Unchanged: <li>Public schools are an important democratic institution, one worth preserving and working to support. (And improve.)</li> | Unchanged: <li>Public schools are an important democratic institution, one worth preserving and working to support. (And improve.)</li> | ||
| Unchanged: <li>Kids learn a lot from collective intellectual exploration and knowledge testing and construction.</li> | Unchanged: <li>Kids learn a lot from collective intellectual exploration and knowledge testing and construction.</li> | ||
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| Unchanged: Which makes sense; I can't say either of those reasons are show-stoppers for me, but they're both good ones nonetheless. | Unchanged: Which makes sense; I can't say either of those reasons are show-stoppers for me, but they're both good ones nonetheless. | ||
| Unchanged: Fortunately, we have several years to figure all this out. (And perhaps to improve Mountain View's post-fifth-grade programs.) | Unchanged: Fortunately, we have several years to figure all this out. (And perhaps to improve Mountain View's post-fifth-grade programs.) | ||
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