Re: Teachers Propose All-Online High School Philly charter school

[Laura Van <abrilmackenzie@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Do you have a citation for the Tom French article?


> From: "Quan, Cao" <QCao009@AOL.COM>
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> Subject: Re: Teachers Propose All-Online High School Philly charter school
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:31:09 EST
>
> In a message dated 11/18/99 9:59:48 PM Central Standard Time,
> 5alive@PYRAMID.NET writes:
>
> << I think you are missing some things, but it is probably because you have
>  not been exposed to a lot of homeschoolers.   The most obvious thing you
>  overlook is that school is not the only opportunity for socialization.
>   >>
>
> Tom French, reporter at St Petersburg Times, spent a year in 1993 doing
> ethnography of Largo High School, and the qualitative data he shared would
> be
> a strong argument for homeschooling.  The socialization schools are
> unwittingly condoning dumb down the students, and reinforce the oppressions
> that encourage conformity and discourage the learning process.
>
> Cyberschools are definitely here.  Teachers who want to teach are starting
> schools and classrooms left and right on the Net.  In a long run,
> totalitarian regimes will have to try to find a way to control the learning
> that takes place across national boundaries, languages and cultures.
>
> Charters and vouchers are already yesterday's news that politicians are
> mouthing without much substance.
>
> Quan
>
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