SCHOLA: Fool

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Fool

My future sister-in-law, a second grade teacher in a New Jersey public school, was told by her principal that the teachers were not allowed to turn on the inauguration for the children in the classrooms in case there happened to be an "act of violence."

3 comments:

Donna Boucher said...: That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Cruel too.

And sick.

This is the sort of odd group thinking that steered me to homeschool many years ago.; January 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM
rae said...: education reform, anyone?; January 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Eryn said...: We have one child in public schools, one child homeschooled at the moment, and I kept our daughter home for the inauguration, because I was pretty sure the school wouldn't show it to the kids.

But my husband just pointed out that if someone had violently attacked the president, I wouldn't have wanted my daughter to see it at school.

I think that's the act of violence they were worried about, not one student knocking out his Obama-supporting classmate, like I first thought they meant.; February 22, 2009 at 5:01 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.