Slow Schooling Chapter Five
Why Not Government Schooling
Monday, June 30, 2008
Three More Reasons To Homeschool
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
When I was a child, I LOVED everything about going to school. I loved my teachers, my college-ruled notebook paper, homework, and peers. I was bored out of my mind during the summer, and spent much of it trying to convince my little brother that playing school was not only fun, but actually very necessary. I couldn’t wait to go shopping with “The List” that I needed for school: full-size nick-free pencils that smelled sharply of cedar, crease-free Crayola boxes, scissors that didn’t stick, and oh! that paste! My memories of schooling are mostly positive, and I was a good girl who not only did all her homework, but sought out the Student of the Month awards, which I won multiple times.
All my memories of my education are just that: childhood memories that have not only filtered out the negatives, they didn’t even realize that certain aspects of my schooling were negative. Later, as I began to teach elementary s…