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I've been discussing unschooling online for 30 years now. I have some printouts dated 1982, from a user group on "HOME SCHOOLING" that had about 80 participants, mor than half of whom were home schooling because their churches had told them it was the only way to be.? ? Many participants were men, too, because it wasn't easy to have e-mail yet outside of work.? My e-mail address was through a company called *Prodigy (with an asterisk in it :-).

Before long AOL opened, and that was like a huge air-conditioned mall, compared to the BBS/user groups.? That's when I buddied up with Pam Sorooshian, and Joyce Fetteroll, and others who could think clearly and write well and some of whom are still around..? There were other forums, and this group was created in November 2001, so nearly 21 years ago.? The first post was by Deb Lewis:

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It's still. great read, and the responses, too.??

Please never feel bad about reading something again.? For one thing, that's they way people can really know something, through repetition.? For another thing.? You read it from a different perspective, after you have more experience with unschooling or parenting (or spirituality or whatever the topic is), and it WILL be different.

This page, on my site, is about repetition (in good ways) and has a video of me (very short, with Holly filming and responding):

Today's Just Add Light and Stir (which has a **NEW** self-service subscription box) has a link to all the rearview mirror photos that are up there, and if any of you want to tke a good one and send it, I wouldn't mind considering others. There are two of bridges, in mirrors, and those are STUNNING.

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The guidelines about posting to this group are linked on the main page.??

I still return posts if they don't follow those, even though the group is quiet.

THANK YOU, Jo and Karen, and I wish others would post too, but in that solid, helpful way :-).? ?If you have some wonderment but you don't want to post, you could use the search bar as an oracle and ask your question.? It will probably lead you to prior discussions when the group got hundreds of posts a month, sometimes over a thousand.

/g/AlwaysLearning

And thousands of pages of good-parts from this forum and others have been collected for posterity. (Hey, that's most of you!)

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I just came across this.? I'm disputing my own self.

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I've been doing that since 1993, when I started writing about unschooling on a user group. Then AOL, where I hosted chats and saved the transcripts. A couple of those are still up (and a few others might be later).
Here's one:?
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If it was 1993, not 1992, then I was wrong two comments above.? Or I was wrong when I wrote the note above.??
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29.5 years, give or take half a year.? Sorry.? Someday I'll find some evidence.? Not today, though.? It's after midnight and I'm old. :-)
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Sandra