--- In AlwaysLearning@..., "sheeboo2" <naturewalkersinfo@...> wrote:
I'm not going to talk about the economic reasons why I think >>>unschooling is more accessible to the middle and upper classes as >>>these are pretty self-evident.
My response:
From a purely monetary point of view it may be true that wealthier people can more easily afford to homeschool, but socially and culturally it may be precisely this economic advantage that dissuades them from homeschooling because they have bought in (so to speak) to the whole 'education = success' paradigm. Most of the unschoolers I know are at the lower end of the economic spectrum.
Brie wrote:
So in some ways the point about "middle-class privilege" draws me >>>to the reverse side of the equation: if the people who care the >>>most about reform (homeschoolers) are the people who take their >>>kids out of the schools, who will be left to fight for the change >>>our kids so desperately need?
My response:
Do homeschoolers really care the most about school reform? I think most homeschoolers believe that fundamentally school cannot be reformed. Spending lots of time and energy on political causes will take away from the parents' ability to be actively engaged with their kids.
Claire
