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Wow.
There's a hell of a lot of people reading my damn disclaimer lately.
Unfortunately for them, none of them are really my intended audience.
See, my intended audience is people who do things like say "UR HORRIBLE!!!!" and then, when I ask what I did, keep insisting that I know, and that I've made them cry, and that I should let it drop already, until I am crying.
My intended audience is not those who offended me first, because in that case, there's a good chance I wanted to offend them right back. I can do that, you know, I am allowed. It may not be the most mature route...
Well, screw it. I find it hard to dredge up much sympathy for somebody who reads my disclaimer, starts off saying "I know you might not have meant to offend", and then ends up yelling at me and telling me that tired old (and stupid!) rule about only saying nice things. While yelling at me, and thus breaking that rule. It's not an important rule to me, but if it's important to you, (which it clearly wasn't in this case, or she wouldn't've said the offensive things which first upset me), oughtn't you, y'know, attempt to follow it? Perhaps by not yelling "shut the fuck up" at me via the internet?
In other news, Ana is too smart. Much too smart.
Not smart enough, though, to actually stay out of our water fights, even though she is scared of them. She keeps wanting to grab a water gun, squirt her daddy (that's funny, she doesn't squirt me), and then runs in fear when she gets squirted back, or splashed.
Unfortunately for them, none of them are really my intended audience.
See, my intended audience is people who do things like say "UR HORRIBLE!!!!" and then, when I ask what I did, keep insisting that I know, and that I've made them cry, and that I should let it drop already, until I am crying.
My intended audience is not those who offended me first, because in that case, there's a good chance I wanted to offend them right back. I can do that, you know, I am allowed. It may not be the most mature route...
Well, screw it. I find it hard to dredge up much sympathy for somebody who reads my disclaimer, starts off saying "I know you might not have meant to offend", and then ends up yelling at me and telling me that tired old (and stupid!) rule about only saying nice things. While yelling at me, and thus breaking that rule. It's not an important rule to me, but if it's important to you, (which it clearly wasn't in this case, or she wouldn't've said the offensive things which first upset me), oughtn't you, y'know, attempt to follow it? Perhaps by not yelling "shut the fuck up" at me via the internet?
In other news, Ana is too smart. Much too smart.
Not smart enough, though, to actually stay out of our water fights, even though she is scared of them. She keeps wanting to grab a water gun, squirt her daddy (that's funny, she doesn't squirt me), and then runs in fear when she gets squirted back, or splashed.
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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.
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I don't think I'd want to use unschooling myself, but I think people underestimate how much of what people learn and use is learned informally.
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"And then I can't teach my daughter anything!"
Well, if you were unschooling, you would be waiting for her to be willing to learn, now wouldn't you? Which kinda explains why the way you've been trying the method doesn't work for you, because you're not doing that.
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Mainly, I'm listening to DVDs of stuff I've seen before, sleeping, and being bored. Being very bored. And now my computer has been reset and is no longer customized for my use. So, I'm going to have to go offline and be more bored. But at least it's temporary.
Oh, but I got to hear a concert last night. :) And the weekend is coming up, when my housemates are actually home, so it might get less boring for a bit.
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Obviously, not everyone's cut out to teach children, and they can send their kids wherever they want. But, they shouldn't assume then that NO ONE can teach their own children, only experts with a planned curriculum can, and anyone else doing so is obviously neglecting and retarding their educaiton.
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Methinks she missed the point.
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And, that's just the thing, too. She was trying to "teach" her child, rather than help her child learn. It's not the same thing.
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On a side note, thanks for mentioning the LJ Abuse thing, but I wouldn't bother them about this. That really *would* be pathetic. I can deal with sillies like that easily.
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It's was more a STFU type thing. :p She seemed the type to run if someone was going to "tell" on her. :p It was really juvenile of her.
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