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In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand on homeschooling? [View all]KamaAina
(78,249 posts)67. There are good and bad homeschoolers, just like teachers in a school
Two of my favorite homeschoolers are accomplished enough to have their own Wikis while still in their 20s! One of them is known to many of you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Lowery
Ava Lowery is an American peace activist from Alabama who has created over 70 Flash-based animations denouncing the Iraq War, former United States President George W. Bush, policies of the Republican Party and several individual Republican politicians. She has actively demonstrated against the war, and in support of soldiers.
Lowery is also the creator of the website Peace Takes Courage, and she and her work have received national media attention in 2005 and 2006, including interviews on Fox News. She is noted for her creation of an online animation, "WWJD" (which stands for "What Would Jesus Do?" . This flash-based animation displays photographs of wounded Iraqi children and suggests what we should do from a Christian angle over the song "Jesus Loves Me."...
Lowery was a homeschooled student. She is currently a student of Film & Television at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts.
Lowery is also the creator of the website Peace Takes Courage, and she and her work have received national media attention in 2005 and 2006, including interviews on Fox News. She is noted for her creation of an online animation, "WWJD" (which stands for "What Would Jesus Do?" . This flash-based animation displays photographs of wounded Iraqi children and suggests what we should do from a Christian angle over the song "Jesus Loves Me."...
Lowery was a homeschooled student. She is currently a student of Film & Television at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts.
The other one hasn't discovered us -- yet -- but she was a major figure in Occupy Oakland.
Sunaura "Sunny" Taylor (born March 21, 1982 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American painter and activist for disability and animal rights. She currently resides in Oakland, California, and has taught classes at the University of California, Berkeley.
Taylor's work has been displayed in the Smithsonian and in galleries across the United States.She is the recipient of a 2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. In 2004, she received the Grand Prize in the VSA arts Driving Force juried exhibition for emerging disabled artists. A portion of her work deals with animal rights issues, as Taylor is an abolitionist vegan.
Taylor's work has been displayed in the Smithsonian and in galleries across the United States.She is the recipient of a 2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. In 2004, she received the Grand Prize in the VSA arts Driving Force juried exhibition for emerging disabled artists. A portion of her work deals with animal rights issues, as Taylor is an abolitionist vegan.
http://www.thebestcolleges.org/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers/
13. Sunaura Taylor
Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist for animals and the disabled. She taught herself to paint while being unschooled by her artist mother and musician father in Athens, GA. Taylor has arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a rare congenital joint disorder that prevents her from using her legs or arms, and believes the disease was caused by the toxic effect of contaminated waste illegally dumped by the U.S. Military near her birthplace in Tucson, AZ. Using her mouth, Taylor paints extraordinarily vivid and moving portraits of her subjects, primarily people with disabilities and animals, intending to raise philosophical and political issues surrounding disability/normalcy, personal identity and animal ethics. She appears in the film Examined Life, by her sister Astra Taylor (see above), discussing disability issues with the well known American philosopher Judith Butler. Taylor has won several awards for her work, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation award in 2008, and was featured on NPRs All Things Considered.
Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist for animals and the disabled. She taught herself to paint while being unschooled by her artist mother and musician father in Athens, GA. Taylor has arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a rare congenital joint disorder that prevents her from using her legs or arms, and believes the disease was caused by the toxic effect of contaminated waste illegally dumped by the U.S. Military near her birthplace in Tucson, AZ. Using her mouth, Taylor paints extraordinarily vivid and moving portraits of her subjects, primarily people with disabilities and animals, intending to raise philosophical and political issues surrounding disability/normalcy, personal identity and animal ethics. She appears in the film Examined Life, by her sister Astra Taylor (see above), discussing disability issues with the well known American philosopher Judith Butler. Taylor has won several awards for her work, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation award in 2008, and was featured on NPRs All Things Considered.
A few weeks ago, she was rolling down a street in Oakland when a van full of people yelled out "Sunaura, we fucking love you!" She was a bit confused, as she usually goes by "Sunny". Turns out they were Occupiers, who remembered her from something she wrote for OO and signed "Sunaura".
Clearly both these women had outstanding homeschooled educations. Of course, neither one used a curriculum that featured Jesus riding a dinosaur.
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Societally a very bad idea, but so are most attempts at prohibition. Socialization and
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#6
They claim that they get better socialization and culture from going to church.
Waltons_Mtn
Aug 2012
#27
And some of them (way too many of them) claim that dinosaurs were walking around a couple thousand
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#80
Yes, but it needs to be held to the same standards as other kinds of schooling
wickerwoman
Aug 2012
#8
If those are the "fair" answers you could come up with, I'm not sure you're qualified. (nt)
jeff47
Aug 2012
#10
I'm all for liberals homeschooling their children. Liberals are smart enough to do it and that way
Raine
Aug 2012
#11
parents choice, whether we like it or not. People choose to homeschool for so many reasons.
loli phabay
Aug 2012
#16
The goal of vouchers is to force your kids into Christian private schools or onto the streets.
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#23
Every parent to some extent should "home school" at least on a supplementary basis
ProgressiveProfessor
Aug 2012
#22
Wouldn't be my choice. I think REAL school is a necessary experience for kids. I am also not a
TwilightGardener
Aug 2012
#25
Parents who home school should be required to meet the same accreditation as public schools
liberal N proud
Aug 2012
#26
I think the increasing popularity of home schooling has something in common with guns...
phantom power
Aug 2012
#29
Well I don't want the schools braining washing my kids to right wing talking points rewriting
southernyankeebelle
Aug 2012
#34
Fine - as long as rigorously investigated and found to be equal or better than public option
dmallind
Aug 2012
#44
I know several homeschooled kids and they're all super-religious families who are into brainwashing
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#45
You just ignored the entire body/rest of my post? How friendly of you...
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#173
Your "opinion" of my experiences is, almost by definition, "ignorant"; you don't know me.
Romulox
Aug 2012
#58
If you had reacted this way from the first, a "discussion" might have developed. Instead... nt
Romulox
Aug 2012
#63
No, it's cool. I really didn't expect to be attacked for relaying *my experience*. Challenged,
Romulox
Aug 2012
#117
I appreciate your response. I have experience in which a child is home-schooled in lieu of
Romulox
Aug 2012
#115
Homeschoolers often qualify for special ed because their parents do such a crap job
DonRedwood
Aug 2012
#61
Children should be wards of the state, at least when it comes to their education. A child's mind is
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#119
My wife is a public school teacher. It is because of her experience in our local school
kelly1mm
Aug 2012
#70
Not a fan at all. I've met homeschooling parents, most are not qualified to teach.
progressivebydesign
Aug 2012
#73
Honestly, I would declare any child not in public school until age 18 (unless they graduate) truant.
TheKentuckian
Aug 2012
#77
So the effect would be: More control in the hands of the few who buy elections
The Straight Story
Aug 2012
#79
Freedom to abandon poor and working class kids to school to prison labor or Walmart prep "education"
TheKentuckian
Aug 2012
#154
I wonder if students from public or parochial schools are subjected to the same tests
Shrek
Aug 2012
#85
I think it should be a choice of the parents but should be very well regulated.
Jennicut
Aug 2012
#97
saw show on home schooling with mother and daughter in prairie dresses, all where ignorant
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2012
#104
As for homeschooling because of political/cultural/religious reasons, it cuts both ways
Wednesdays
Aug 2012
#107
As long as my tax dollars don't go to support it, as long as the state curriculum is followed,
baldguy
Aug 2012
#121
Public Schools in TN, TX and KY teaching Creationism sounds like fragmentation to me
Taverner
Aug 2012
#204
Do you think it's fair that kids that get more sleep and don't have to work as hard
blueamy66
Aug 2012
#208
Support, but only with the use of an accredited curriculum or by a certified teacher.
Chan790
Aug 2012
#180