Or Just Too Smart for Disney?
By Paul Clark (aka motomynd)
[The first installment of this story, with the subtitle “Or Just Too Smart for Adults?,” appeared on October 30 last year.]
When my son was 2-years, 8-months old, he and I were getting on an elevator in Anaheim when a 40ish woman joined us. She was headed for Disney and was decked out in a bulging yellow and black tightly stretched lycra mouseketeer-like outfit and some sort of bee-like pseudo-princess headband with flashing lights - apparently a Junior Leaguer who had not taken an objective look in a mirror in quite a while. She looked at me, looked at my son, and practically screamed: “Is your grandpa taking you to Disney?!!?”
Or Just Too Smart for Adults?
By Paul Clark (aka motomynd)
In using the word children, instead of kids – I was raised with the saying “baby goats are kids” or something like that – I’ve already put the age thing out there, so let me just say it: I’m 65, whatever. And I’m trying to homeschool my six-year-old son. Yes: 6, not a typo, whatever. And it isn’t going well. The method, as schools demand it, and as I originally envisioned it, has basically been blown to hell, but the results from the as yet undefined Plan B sort of seem to be happening. Which is a blow to the system I know and have long resented yet still believed in.
Child of the Movement
Edited by Morris Dean
Madison Kimrey entered the news with a splash when her petition to meet with North Carolina Governor McCrory got so many signatures it couldn't be ignored. On August 31, she was even interviewed by Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC ("Meet Madison Kimrey, 12-year-old voting rights activist"). And most recently she has been invited to create a video for the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl. Home-schooled Madison also writes a blog, Functional Human Being.
Moristotle & Co. is honored to be able to publish this interview with Madison. [Our questions are in italics.]
We lucked out when we learned that a neighbor family were willing to be interviewed about their involvement in home-schooling, for we very much wanted to share home-schooling experiences with our readers.
The Eckmann Family include parents Kim and Kyle, children Tanner and Courtney, and their dog Rocky.
[Our questions are in italics.]
