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Secular Home Schooling Options
From: Dan Conine
To: Positive Atheism
Sent: October 16, 2001 11:31 PM
Subject: homeschool help?
My wife and I are trying to find home school resources that are secular.
Any idea where to look?
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To: "Dan Conine"
Subject: Re: homeschool help?
Date: October 16, 2001 9:04 PM
I'm clueless as far as actual experience goes, but I am pretty good at speculating. I"ll also send this out to our list and see if anybody else has any specific answers. Check our Forum section in a few days and see what came in.
I'm sure that investigating where some of the Christian home-schooling stuff comes from might bring about some clues. I bet they only write their creationism and morality and religious stuff: spelling and math are spelling and math wherever you go, and I'd bet they use some pretty regular stuff for those subjects.
Also, you might have some luck contacting groups that help severely retarded or severely ill kids (such as cancer patients). Sick kids need home-schooling, too, and not all of them are biblical fundamentalists.
Finally, you might want to contact some of the private schools such as the Montessori system or some of the new "Green" or other ultra-Liberal groups who have put together some pretty high-class schools for the kids to learn some special-agenda material and hang with the kids of like-minded parents.
If I were doing this, I'd go so far as to be willing to pay a consulting fee to, for example, the curricula director of a private school. A small to moderate fee to one of these professionals could save you a bundle in trying to track down the materials and even the paperwork you have to fill out.
And there are always books and magazines. If your library isn't much help, Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon, has several dozen feet of shelf space dedicated just to educating children. They're online, so you can familiarize yourself with the system they use to categorize and shelve the books, and you can also sometimes catch the person who works that section.
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From: "Don Miller"
To: "Positive Atheism Magazine" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: Seeking Resources For Secular Home Schooling
Date: October 16, 2001 11:15 PM
Hello, Cliff and Dan. Atheist home-school dad here.
There are a lot of homeschool resources that aren't specifically theist. A good place to start might be the magazine Growing Without Schooling.
It is essentially secular-they print submissions from a variety of perspectives, some of which mention religion, but most do not. John Holt started the magazine in the 70s, and wrote many books about homeschooling, before it was even called that, without reference to religion. GWS is also affiliated with a bookstore that carries a lot of resources that are not-necessarily-theist.
(The home-schooling or "unschooling" or "deschooling" movement, if you can call it a movement, started with left-leaning libertarians in the late 60s and early 70s, long before the right-wing Christians adopted it. They've managed to associate the whole thing with their dogma, but they didn't start it.)
The only specifically atheist resource I know of is a Yahoo email group called homeschool_atheists. Dan could probably trade a lot of information, maybe find some likeminded folks near him.
For "curriculum", there is a wide range of preference. Many families try to replicate school at home, while many do very little that one would recognize as "school". My family is in the second camp. We use regular books, a few textbooks or workbooks, the net, videos, this and that, whatever we can find in the library. We've never had a shortage of interesting information to study. Public schools often make materials available. Many have "alternative" programs or part-time enrollment for non-schoolers. There are also correspondence schools, such as Clonlara,
that don't appear to be particularly theist. I have no experience with their materials, but I"ve heard of non-theists using them.
There are a lot of us heathen homeschoolers out here, a lot more than the popular media seem to know about.
Good luck to Dan. Feel free to write me.
From: "David Eller"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: Seeking Resources For Secular Home Schooling
Date: October 16, 2001 10:40 PM
Here are a few websites dedicated to the issue of secular homeschooling.
Added: January 20, 2002
From: "June"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Resources for secular home schooling
Date: October 17, 2001 5:38 PM
I was sent the original e-mail for this from a friend of mine because he knows I home school and I am an atheist. There are a lot of secular resources on and off the net and some that offer both types of support religious and non religious. I need to know what type or style of schooling Dan and his family are doing to get them the right type of help, and what state they are located because there are individual state support groups that could help. If your whole group would like to know more about home schooling, more specifically, secular home schooling let me know and I will join the mail list and give them the resources I have.
I am always willing to help.
From: "Leslie Moyer"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: January 20, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Secular Home Schooling Options (Forum) (10-01)
I found an October letter from you on this website [garbled] and wanted to add one resource that was not mentioned, but is very good: Home Education Magazine. For "Don," who wrote said something about Growing Without Schooling Magazine, they're no longer publishing, so I thought your readers would like this alternate resource. It is also not strictly secular, but by far the closest thing to it. If you'd like some other resources, I'd be glad to provide them. I've been a secular homeschooler and unschooler for 15 years. Let me know if you would use them.
Leslie Moyer,
Cliff responds:
It is also not strictly secular, but by FAR the closest thing to it.
This will be good in light of our recommendation that we involve ourselves with groups and organizations that do not have a religious test. After all, it's not necessarily the religion itself that we find dangerous but certain elements that tend to be quite common in religion, such as tribal loyalism and fundamentalism. We do well to remind ourselves that atheism (secularism) is not immune to being ravaged by these elements among us. Positive Atheism suspects that abandoning the religious test (even for atheism) could serve to take the wind out of both fundamentalism and loyalism.
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It has been a long time. Rather than just make small talk, I will cut right down to what has been going on since I last blogged in April.
A lot of drama and presently, a lot of uncomfortable calm.
I filed for divorce in March and things were amicable for a while until we began dating other people, then things got ugly. Lots of shouting matches, lots of crying, anger, threats, during which time my current boyfriend and I grew apart and there was also a lot of drama with that towards the end of the summer. I seriously did not think we would make it, but we did and we are, miraculously, still together and trying to make it work as best as we can. The upside to the end-of-summer drama is that it changed me (maybe for better and for worse), my perspective, and yet, somehow, some way, it made our communication open up. We are communicating better than we ever have before, but I also feel like a different, more independent person (it may have had something to do with spending the month of August living my life like it was my last month on Earth).
Our divorce was finalized on the 19th of September. A few weeks before it was finalized, I moved out and in with three people I met on Craigslist into an apartment we got for ourselves. The apartment is huge and it's also one of the nicest apartments I've lived in (save for the one I lived in in San Diego). It's also super cheap for this area. I'm renting out the living room until I can get my debt and my finances under control which is happening a lot faster than I expeced (yay!).
I have also learned to manage my money a lot better.
I got a second job (in addition to my job at the psychotherapy clinic) at a Jewish synagogue two miles from my current place.
I quit smoking in June and have not picked up a cigarette since then.
I re-found my motivation to go back to school and really focus on it. While the cheapness of renting a living room is nice, I can't rent a living room forever. ;-)
I also started therapy for the first time in my life. It has actually been a tremendous help within my transition from an unhappily married wife to a relatively normal 27 year old. It has allowed me to find the strength to ditch my sh*tty, abusive family and understand that any of the dependencies I had before are now things I no longer need.
I've dropped 15 pounds or so just from working so much. inadvertently controlling my portions, and walking twelve miles every week (two miles to the temple, two miles home, three times a week).
That's about it.
My life is not perfect, but it's much better . . . much better than I could have ever imagined.
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So I admit, I have been pretty bad in the last few weeks in terms of regularly posting thoughts and musings on this site. The truth is, I have been very much caught up with both some professional and personal matters. But tonight, I came back from a networking event that I was so stunned by that I picked up my laptop as soon as I got home.
I enjoy going to Mobile Monday events. It's a great way to casually network and meet new people and organizations that are looking to continue the innovation trends in mobility....it's not just enterprise mobility, and in fact, more often than not, consumer mobility. Regardless, I think it's a good way to continue keeping my finger on the pulse of the market.
So, I am a member, and regular participant at Mobile Monday Boston events. This month's event was all about startups focused on consumer mobility. There was a total of 10 companies, and candidly, most of the ideas I didn't "get"....meaning I didn't see where or how these companies were actually going to be able to make money (think Bubble 3.0).
OK, regardless. Here's an interesting set of factoids. Of the 10 comapnies who presented.
- How many used Windows-based laptops? Zero
- How many used Mac laptops? Ten
- How many startups were developing mobile apps for the iPhone? Ten
- How many startups were developing mobile apps for Android? About four (I think)
- How many startups were developing mobile apps for BlackBerry? About four (I think - not necessarily the same)
- How many startups were developing mobile apps for Windows Mobile? Zero. Not a single one.
After the presentations, I went to every single company and asked them point blank what their plans were for developing Windows Mobile versions of their applications. Only ONE was considering it for their roadmap. This was absolutely shocking to me. Absolutely shocking.
So here's the problem. I've written about this a few times already, but enterprise mobility is getting increasingly consumerized. The iPhone, Android, even the slick HTC Touch FLO interfaces have all done a great job of making mobile devices more consumer friendly...and the problem that some manufacturers are forgetting is that people who work in "the enterprise" are also consumers. They are going to want slick devices that fit their lifestyles and let them do their work as well. As much as I personally don't care to use my mobile for "non-work" things, the reality is a LOT of people do.
So the problem is this. What's easier - for Microsoft (one company) to make Windows Mobile more consumer friendly or for thousands of developers and millions of users make the iPhone and Android slick and polished such that it permeates into the enterprise? I've called this before the Trojan Horse effect.
There are now "spy shots" floating around of Windows Mobile 6.5 with a sleeker home screen, but what about what happens PAST the home screen? The truth is, as much as I am a fan on Windows Mobile, and as much as I like my Palm Treo Pro, the Windows Mobile 6.1 user experience leaves much room for improvement. The fact of the matter is, it's by no means the most consumer friendly user experience for mobile devices. I like it because it's the best by far integration with Exchange. However, it's got a lot of room for improvement.
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The idea for Bitcoin at MIT was announced earlier this year when the MIT Bitcoin Club raised a half a million dollars to give the 4,528 registered fall students $100 each to use as a cryptocurrency seed startup. Awareness to the ecosystem for the digital currencies was the idea of MIT sophomore Jeremy Rubin and first-year MBA student Dan Elitzer who raised the money from alumni and benefactors.
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Hong Kong's newest food craving is an extra serving of New York.
The local culinary scene is abuzz about "New York style" as a growing collection of restaurants in Hong Kong associate themselves with the Big Apple to draw in customers.
Is it any wonder? New York is a culinary world capital, full of celebrity chefs, internationally renowned restaurateurs and America's top culinary schools.
But what makes a Hong Kong restaurant a "New York" eatery?
The chef's provenance, for one thing. Of this, however, there are varying degrees.
Que Vinh Dang, the owner of a small 20-seat private kitchen in Hong Kong's Central district, TBLS, which has a similar look to the popular New York restaurant Momofuku, calls himself a "New Yorker through and through." The chef, who opened his eatery early this year, emigrated to New York with his family when he was 2 — he's lived in every borough of the city except for Staten Island. He moved to Hong Kong in 2007.
But Todd Darling – who opened Posto Pubblico, a New York-style Italian eatery in Hong Kong, with his friend Robert Spina Jr. last year, says "You're only a New Yorker if you were born there," as he and Mr. Spina were. Both of their grandparents (also good friends) moved to New York from Sicily in the 1940s and set up pizza shops and bakeries in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Some of those pizzerias are still in business.
"A couple of years in investment banking on Wall Street doesn't qualify you as a New Yorker," says Mr. Darling.
Yenn Wong wasn't born in New York and she's never lived there. But her newly opened 208 Due Ottocento restaurant in Hong Kong has been described by many local publications as "New York-style" — 208's chef, Vinny Lauria, formerly the chef at Mario Batali's New York restaurant Babbo.
But the New York cred behind Lily and Bloom – the bar and restaurant that opened three months ago – stems from its New York-based design firm, AvroKO, which created the look for many of the Big Apple's top restaurants, including the Stanton Social, Plein Sud and Hurricane Club.
Says AvroKO co-founder William Harris: "There is a certain 'New York' style. It's something that's more storied and soulful – tile work, natural materials, industrial raw details — versus the overpolished stuff you may see in Hong Kong."
Then there's the food.
If you're a fan of the signature bone marrow dish served at Blue Ribbon Brasserie on Sullivan Street in New York City, you'll find a similar version at Bloom in Hong Kong. This is no coincidence — Bloom owner Calvin Koo once lived two blocks from Blue Ribbon, and he frequently dined there. When he opened Bloom, he insisted the cafe stay open until 3 a.m., like Blue Ribbon.
Mr. Dang, the chef and owner of TBLS, says his food is cooked New York-style, which is "a bit more focused on technique, quirky and with a little bit of showing off." Previously, Mr. Dang was the chef of Duke's Burger in Hong Kong, now closed, where his line of burgers was inspired by New York's dB Burger from dB Bistro Moderne.
When Harvest Bagels opened in 2009 in Hong Kong, it experimented with more than 12 recipes to create an authentic New York bagel. But in the end, says manager Emily Cheung, "it was too dense and tough for Hong Kongers." The shop's bagel is now soft and fluffy, and about as close to New York as egg foo young is to Chinese cuisine.
Things are different at the newly opened Paisano in Hong Kong's Central district, where owner Al Morales says he serves a bona fide New York-size "slice": The pizzas here measure 24-inches (60 centimeters) in diameter, and have a thin crust made from the family recipe used in his parents' New York pizzeria, Tony's, on Broadway and 179th Street.
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In the fast-paced and trend-following city of Hong Kong, will diners soon tire of this New York sell?
"We aren't selling New York as gimmick," says Mr. Darling. "New York has come to stand for a certain standard of quality for restaurants, and that's really what we're referencing at the end — a restaurant 'good enough for New York.'"
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Violation of city ordinance, 12:32 p.m.: 300 block of Fifth Street.
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Disorderly conduct, 3:23 p.m.: 900 block of Chetco Avenue.
Fire, 3:35 p.m.: Winchuck River Road near Welcome Center.
Unauthorized use of a vehicle, 3:40 p.m.: Near Iris Street.
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Fight, 5:10p.m.: Heather Lane and Highway 101.
Theft, 5:37 p.m.: Five miles up North Bank Chetco River Road.
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Fight, 6:21 pm.: 96400 block of Dawson Road.
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Theft, 1:03 p.m.: 600 block of Chetco Avenue.
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Theft, 1:45 p.m.: 1000 block of Old County Road.
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Theft, 9:33 p.m.: A shoplifter was apprehended in the 900 block of Chetco Avenue.
Burglary, 10:39 p.m.: 97100 block of Dodge Avenue.
Fight, 11:04 a.m.: 200 block of Cypress Street.