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A RESPECTFUL DEBATE: Homeschool vs Unschool vs Public School vs Private School
7/21/2010 at 4:13 PM
Your Challenge:
To remain respectful & accepting of others. To choose your words wisely, and use vocabulary that promotes thought and supports equality in conversation. To stay on topic. Complete the goal.
Your Goal:
If you are PRO (one of the above methods of teaching a child) I would like you to list 5-10 negatives about that method. Anything that has the ability to harm either the emotional, physical, psychological, spiritual or social well-being of a child. Once you have creative your list of negatives associated with the method of education you are in most favour of, then you can list an EQUAL amount of positives.
(For example: someone who favours a catholic private school will list X amount of negatives that could potentially harm their child with relation to that education system, along with X amount (equal to the negatives) of positives that could benefit their child.
Try to keep personal opinions at a minimum, and remember that just because you hated being homeschooled doesn't mean that this is a dominating statistic... just because you loved being at public school because you've had the same best friend for 30 years... doesn't mean that this is a universal statistic either. Get the idea?
This could be a really good thread - or a really awful one.