Archive for August, 2004

Otherways – Issue 101 – August to October 2004

Adults, Can’t You See? Lyn looks at teenage suicide and compulsory schooling
In School You Are Not Free Grace Llewellyn explains how limiting school is and how teenagers can live more fully outside the constraints of the school system
Older Kids: Decompression Cafi Cohen reveals what to expect when your teenager leaves school and begins home [...]

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Home Educating Gifted Children

By Susan Wight
Home educating is all very well, but what if your children are gifted? Won’t they need the special programs only available in school? How could a parent be qualified to educate them? Don’t gifted children have trouble socialising anyway, and won’t home education make that worse?
School Provision
Firstly, let’s look at those “special programs” [...]

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