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My sister recently interviewed my friend Sandy, who is the mother of two grown unschooled boys. (She also plays a wicked violin!)
Q: How did you first become interested in homeschooling?
Sandy: That goes back a long way. I was working in Toronto in the 70’s and I read this book called “And the children played” by Patricia Loudry, she’s from England, she’s a comic and a playwright. She was living in England and she was raising her kids and she decided she would make a little school in their house in the country anyway the kids just played. It was an inspiring book. And I thought well it’s a great idea, but? … they had this manor in the country with theatre and interesting people visiting, all very rich, cultural, stuff going on. And um a young woman who was student at a college in London…came to this daycare that I was working at the was a bit alternative and she was doing something about alternative education and she looked very familiar but I couldn’t place her and it turns out, this about two weeks after I just finished reading the book and it was still in the kitchen of the daycare, and so it turned out she was the second to youngest daughter of Patricia Loudry and I had seen her picture when she was 12 or 13 in the book. She was just so articulate and self-posed and aware and I thought okay the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So I actually met someone back in the late 70’s who had actually grown-up without school and seemed to be doing very fine thank-you very much. …. So that is sortive where it started. Way back when, even before I met Michael.
Cassius had a lot of fun doing this money quiz game
I had no idea potato sacks could be so fun!
