SCHOLA: Conspiracy Theory

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Conspiracy Theory

Principal: Will Elle be joining us again next year?

Teacher 1: Is Elle coming back to us next year?

Teacher 2: How's her homeschooling going? Will you be putting her back in school next year?

Teacher 3: Elle is welcome to join her old classmates for Fun Fridays. Would you like that, honey?

Parents 1 - 10: Think you'll put her in next year?

Was this mere curiosity, misplaced concern, or outright subterfuge I wondered to my Witness friend. She believed it was an organized effort to get Elle back into the system and identified the one behind it all:

Satan.

That makes sense then. He must also be behind Education Queensland's hellish annual reporting process.

2 comments:

Becky said...: rofl

Apparently we scandalized a number of families yesterday, what with two children dressed as Dracula (a la Bela Lugosi) and the third with devil's horns sprouting through her blonde hair...

What can I say? The devil made me do it ;); November 1, 2007 at 5:11 PM
Kathy Jo DeVore said...: If you can explain modern public schools in a way that doesn't include Forces of Darkness, I'm willing to listen. ;); November 4, 2007 at 6:02 PM

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.