OMG its liek SNOWING!!1111 o.O

[mamagotcha]

snow pic


(view from our back porch... it doesn't seem to be sticking at all yet, but it's very pretty!)

bonus rare teen cooperation moment


(please to ignore dirty dishes)


in other news... saw "dead poets society" last night and felt reaffirmed in my decision to homeschool... made a poster for the Voices of Gaia singing group... got two hotels set up for the IJA fest... all stomachs seem to have settled enough to return to regular activity. off to bowling, legos, japanese, laundry and grocery shopping...

Comments

[mh75.livejournal.com]

how exactly does seeing Dead Poets Society reaffirm your decision to home school? I'm just curious.
I thought it was an excellent movie, btw, did you?

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

perhaps i should have said "unschool," meaning that my kids follow their own interests instead of having been trained up to "obey" me and study what and where i tell them to study. the ideas of living life to the fullest, blossoming into what you are meant to become, and stepping away from society's demand for comformity are dear to me, and i hope i have given my kids enough space and resources to develop and grow instead of being stunted or forced.

yes, it was a good movie, but a terribly sad one.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

heh, i hate to see anyone making decisions based on one movie, which is a fictionalized account of one aspect of one type of school. I know you just made an offhand comment rather than actually using it as 'data' in your decision, but, it feels like a weird reaction to me.

If i recall correctly, seeing that movie made me wish that i was in a school more like the one in the movie, instead of in my public school. Although, at that time, not very many things made me appreciate the type of education i was getting. I guess that was probably a weird reaction, too.

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

well, i certainly didn't make decisions based on this movie... just felt glad i had already made the decision i had years before.

you really wanted to be in a situation like that? where teachers are scapegoated for parents' misguided errors? where corporal punishment and fear are the driving forces? where art and romance are pounded lifeless?

perhaps you meant you wished you had a teacher like Prof. Keating? because if that style and passion of teaching were encouraged instead of quashed, then i would have a very different view of industrialized education.

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

julia points out that my response to this may be construed as defensive or rude. megan, i apologize if you are put off or offended by my remarks! i thought i was just explaining my strong reaction to this movie, and trying to figure out yours. please forgive me if my words caused any harm.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha. No more rude than my own comments. I figure you and i are okay and long as we both know that we can speak up and say 'i find that offensive' and let the other people explain what they were trying to mean. Right?

I like talking to you. I think some times we're a bit argumentative, but, thats why i like it. Your view points stretch my way of thinking. I'd like to think that i sometimes stretch your way of thinking.

As to my feelings about the Dead Poets Society - its been a really long time since i saw it, which was back when it first came out, and i can't quite remember all the details. I suspect that i was attracted not so much to the school, as to the community of children attending the school. But, i also always romanticised new england prep schools, especially given the experiences of people i knew who attended them. My friends who went to schools like that were happy to be there, even if there is some twisted blue-blood hypocrisy about them.