conuly

Oh, no. The comment that prompted the comment(s) that prompted this post was about the poster. I think she's an idiot, more so now that she's spammed my journal.

It's a not very interesting story, but basically, she posted in the guise of asking about "unschooling" - but in a way that makes it clear her mind is already set, using a lot of prejudicial words about it.

Somebody gave a good, concise definition of the philosophy behind it, and the person goes "well sure they could learn to garden but can unschooling teach them about photosynthesis?" with the implication being no, it can't.

(The truth is that 1. if the kid wants to learn about photosynthesis, nothing is stopping them from learning about it on their own and 2. very few people who "learn" that in school remember it once the test is over, because they aren't interested in it.)

And all her posts and comments were uncapitalized, with massive punctuation errors, and some odd misusages of words (intelligent is not a synonym for educated). So I commented asking if she knew how photosynthesis works, and additionally, if she knew how to use the English language (because I'm sure not seeing any evidence of that).

Honestly, if she's the result of this newfangled "education" concept, I'm glad I didn't really have any of that until high school. I mean, I attended and all, but I only learned what I read on my own.