The following material is from REBOUND or GEMS. Here's their copyright notice: You need not request our permission and can claim it as your own if you like. How people come to hear this information makes no difference to us. We ask only that you not attempt to prevent anyone else, including us, from using these ideas in the future. Other than that, help yourself! Should you let your homeschooled teen go to school if he really wants to? Schools are negative, toxic places. However, it is understandable, given the conditions in this society today, that homeschooled teenagers would choose to launch themselves out into the adult world by going to junior high or high school. And while some homeschooling parents might consider this a failure, we would consider this a sign that the parents have done a good job keeping their children's natural systems in tact, so that at the onset of puberty these young adults do the natural thing, which is to leave home. Homeschooling parents should also know that once children have been homeschooled up to the age of ten or eleven, they have had time enough to collect themselves up so that they can no longer be corrupted by the external invasion of educators. Previously homeschooled teenagers who go into the school cannot be mentally and emotionally harmed by current educational practices in the way that children under eight or nine can be harmed. If anything, previously homeschooled teenagers are generally an irritant to educators because they are mature, functioning, free-thinking adults. Educators are frightened of functioning, free-thinking human beings because they have dedicated themselves to producing dysfunctional, passive, accepting robots" From Vol 1 REBOUND Criteria for a Proper School Children Will Not Be Allowed To Start School Until They Are At Least Nine Years Old. Children Will Not Be Subjected To More Than Two To Three Hours Of Formal Instruction Every Day. Classes Will Be Limited To Five Students Or Less. All Classes Will Be Geared To The Needs Of The Individual Child, Not To The Convenience Of The Teacher. No Subject Will Be Taught Out Of Context. All Subjects Must Have A Direct Bearing On A Child's Life, And Be Directly Related To Reality. Children Will Not Be Graded. Children Will Attend Schol For Three To Five Years. They Will Then Go Out Into The World And Pursue A Field Of Interest. Schools Will Be An Integral, Interconnected Part Of Community Life. Children Will Be Educated In Hardware Stores, Hospitals, Police Stations, Churches, Etc. From The Reestablishment of Normalcy and Naturalness in Childbearing Practixes ...If America and other Western societies are ever to rebound from the destructive effects of modern education, the most serious correction that must be made is for the childbearing process to be returned to the adolescent years. In order to accomplish this goal, drastic changes would need to take place in the current educational structure. In order to prepare teenagers for the responsibilities and demands of parenthood, this society would have to come up with a system that could do more than produce incompetent,unskilled, overgrown Gerber babies, whose primary interests in life are designer jeans, designer drugs and fingernail polish. There was a time in this nation, prior to the institutionalization of compulsory education, when some adolescents were still treated as functioning adults who married and had children well before the end of their adolescent years. In these communities, mostly rural and frontier societies, young men and women were still able to launch themselves into adult life in a natural way. When compulsory education laws requiring young adults to remain in school up to the age of 18 were enacted, all of the natural pathways for American teenagers to launch themselves into adult life, including mating and bearing children, were completely destroyed. The result of destroying the natural pathways into adult life for adolsecents in this society is evident in the high rates of teenage suicide, depression, alcoholism and drug abuse, and in the negative psychological condition of American teenagers today which did not exist prior to the introduction of compulsory high school attendance. unskilled Curfew Government Run Tax Funded ie Public Schools Great Education Moments Homeschooling Works Jefferson Quotes Kansas Law Notebook Conversation Rebound Revisionist History Socialization Turnabout is Fair Play Joyce Swann - Unschooling's Antithesis? For free homepage go to Geocities.