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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 377774" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>FarmWife, difficult child 3 is currently studying war poetry as part of a unit of English. Remember, this is correspondence, a branch of mainstream but administered primarily at home. I could give you some details of this if you like. The way this topic is set out, is to first show the early war poetry of WWI (the first modern war, where humanity really ramped up the mass destruction of armies in systematic, chemical and explosive way). The first poetry was still aimed at charging up young men to enlist and to fight. The attitude was, "If I die fighting for my country, it is a glorious death and I will be a hero." The first lesson is basically WWI history (briefly) followed by a look at some of the romanticised early poetry.</p><p></p><p>The second lesson is the change, where some poems were written by soldiers in the thick of it who were saying, "This ain't pretty, and you should stop telling innocent young boys that fighting for your country is a glorious thing."</p><p></p><p>The next lesson is more modern poetry (very Australian, in this case) including songs written during the anti-war movement. The whole unit, taking it all together, is balanced. It's not anti-war, it's not pro-war. Instead, it focusses on the changing opinions and the way society attitudes towards war have shifted.</p><p></p><p>It's good stuff.</p><p></p><p>MWM, you said, </p><p>That can't happen here in Australia unless te births were not registered. But then, if the births are not registered ten also the child never gets our national health care and you'd have to be crazy to not register for that. So once a child is "in the system" at least for health care, the government knows about them and their education is tracked and must be accounted for.</p><p></p><p>I realise that for a lot of people in the US, the Aussie system sounds very Big Brother - our government has cross-connected every department and linked it to services so vital that everyone in the country is known. it makes it almost impossible to cheat the system in any way and get away with it.</p><p>But it does mean that some of the really bizarre home schoolers (the ones that really concern me and can give the rest of us home schoolers a bad reputation by association) are known to the system and can be so successful at arguing their case, that supervision standards drop. One particular cult is a major concern, they get away with bending the rules to breaking point because they also fund one of our major political parties to a huge extent. ANd when this cult can set up their own gated community and exclusive school with a curriculum that is never put forward for scrutiny, t hen other weirdos do the same thing and say, "If they can, then so can I." Scrutiny and child protection then goes out the window.</p><p></p><p>I won't mention the cult name, but they have been under close scrutiny by the Aussie media in recent years but they are too well protected by their political friends. A worry.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 377774, member: 1991"] FarmWife, difficult child 3 is currently studying war poetry as part of a unit of English. Remember, this is correspondence, a branch of mainstream but administered primarily at home. I could give you some details of this if you like. The way this topic is set out, is to first show the early war poetry of WWI (the first modern war, where humanity really ramped up the mass destruction of armies in systematic, chemical and explosive way). The first poetry was still aimed at charging up young men to enlist and to fight. The attitude was, "If I die fighting for my country, it is a glorious death and I will be a hero." The first lesson is basically WWI history (briefly) followed by a look at some of the romanticised early poetry. The second lesson is the change, where some poems were written by soldiers in the thick of it who were saying, "This ain't pretty, and you should stop telling innocent young boys that fighting for your country is a glorious thing." The next lesson is more modern poetry (very Australian, in this case) including songs written during the anti-war movement. The whole unit, taking it all together, is balanced. It's not anti-war, it's not pro-war. Instead, it focusses on the changing opinions and the way society attitudes towards war have shifted. It's good stuff. MWM, you said, That can't happen here in Australia unless te births were not registered. But then, if the births are not registered ten also the child never gets our national health care and you'd have to be crazy to not register for that. So once a child is "in the system" at least for health care, the government knows about them and their education is tracked and must be accounted for. I realise that for a lot of people in the US, the Aussie system sounds very Big Brother - our government has cross-connected every department and linked it to services so vital that everyone in the country is known. it makes it almost impossible to cheat the system in any way and get away with it. But it does mean that some of the really bizarre home schoolers (the ones that really concern me and can give the rest of us home schoolers a bad reputation by association) are known to the system and can be so successful at arguing their case, that supervision standards drop. One particular cult is a major concern, they get away with bending the rules to breaking point because they also fund one of our major political parties to a huge extent. ANd when this cult can set up their own gated community and exclusive school with a curriculum that is never put forward for scrutiny, t hen other weirdos do the same thing and say, "If they can, then so can I." Scrutiny and child protection then goes out the window. I won't mention the cult name, but they have been under close scrutiny by the Aussie media in recent years but they are too well protected by their political friends. A worry. Marg [/QUOTE]
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