While I’m on the subject of alternate education methods having fewer obstacles than you might think, here is an example of how a homeschooler goes on field trips:
Mom: *looking at local teacher resources on the Internet*
Resources: Try taking your class for a tour at the nearby widget factory! They do tours for Grades 5 – 12, with a minimum class size of 10, and it’s only $5/student!
Mom: Hey kids, you want to tour a widget factory?
Me: Yeah!
Brother: Sure.
Mom, emailing the field-trip-coordination mailing list: Hey guys, if I can get at least 10 kids aged 10 and up together, I’ll call the widget factory and schedule a tour. Preliminary date is the second Thursday of next month. Cost is $5/kid, paid to me when you get there so I can pay for the group. I’ve already got two signed up. Who’s with me?
Parent: I’ve got three kids for the list!
Other parent: My 12-year-old’s not interested, but the 14-year-old will go.
[etc]
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[second Thursday of next month]
Tour guide: Okay kids, time to settle down and at least pretend to listen to the spiel–wait. You’re already settled down, and you appear to be *actually* listening to the spiel. Huh. It’s almost like you wanted to be here.
Kids who wanted to be here: :D
Kids who didn’t want to be here: *at home, reading biology textbook*
Tags:
#seriously we got so many comments from tour guides surprised that the kids actually gave a shit about the tour #oh look an original post #homeschool #my childhood #there are *occasional* places that won’t deal with anyone but an Official School #but most places that do stuff for schools are open to homeschool groups as long as you designate one parent as the liaison #I went to a lot of tours and art workshops and cooking classes #almost every week sometimes #(the parents generally tried to spread things out so that there weren’t *multiple* trips for the same age in the same week) #the more you know
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