---I don't think homeschoolers are the people who care the most about
school reform.---
Yes..I see what you are saying--.My thoughts might have been better stated as, "the people who care about doing things differently....."
I agree that school, as an institution, is broken beyond repair. The very institution is flawed from its inception! I guess that's the one point I keep coming back to. It isn't that schools have this wonderful potential--they are, at their very essence, something I find distasteful. And then the "middle class" privilege guilt sets in!
----"If everyone stays involved in that system, the fear will grow."-----
Yes. I agree.
----"They changed a broken system and it stayed changed? Cool.
(I doubt they changed it much or that it changed the next school over,
and the next, or your parents would be famous now, right? And schools
would not be broken.)"----
You are absolutely right! After my parents pulled us out of public school and put us in an alternative (really, very "unschooling-ish") school, we'd hear about the old school going back to its old ways. The change only lasted for as long as there were people actively asking for it.
