Conversations on Twice Exceptional Homeschooling
Even if you can’t be there in person on September 20th to protest for action on climate change, there are things you can do.
We will not be able to be there: our family’s disabilities mean hanging out in crowds at the best of times is a bad idea. But even if (like us) you can’t be there in person, there are things you can do to help with the climate strike.
Continue reading “Climate Crisis: Things You Can Do When You Can’t Even”
Last week, I mentioned that C had paused in his desire to understand democracy and law. Well, the pause in learning about democracy never materialised. Partly because my DH brought him an awesome book on how one of the original Magna Carta’s ended up in Canberra which we have been slowly reading through it together. And partly because we just had a state election on the weekend.
Continue reading “Homeschool Diary: Politics and Statistics”
There’s a section in the registration document for homeschooling in Victoria that states that we agree that our children:
“will receive regular and efficient instruction …[in]… the principles and practice of Australian democracy, including a commitment to:
Continue reading “Homeschool Diary: Democracy and the Rule of Law”
I was 13 when I decided school was a prison. As I read my way through the classics of sci-fi – from Asimov’s ‘Foundation‘, through to Phillip K Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?‘, wending my way through Heinlein, Herbert and Clarke, – I learned about social structures. And I learned more by finding and reading works like Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince‘, Bernard Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman‘, and even the mad absurdity of ‘Waiting for Godot’. And in my 13-year-old mind, I started to put together a theory of social conditioning.
Warning: Occasional foul language when appropriate.
