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Every time you abolish an institution, it is replaced with whatever is surrounding it culturally.

This is not what I'm trying to achieve. My idea is that we will all quit school and then we will be revolutionaries--that the act of quitting school itself is so radical that, well, how could you not be?
This may not be true. What does it mean to quit school--will everyone have different motivations?
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SPEW: Unschooling Activism

my goal:

to personally affect at least 3 people to leave school within the next year, and pursue their own passions and educations.

how to get student's attention...

1. by posting flyers. (advertising what?)

2. by being a hip presence, in a big way, and personally (non-verbally) advertising unschooling.

what to do with their attention...

1. preach: talk to them and tell them about the ways school is harmful/ineffective, about successful unschoolers (lifelong and dropouts), about how college is still an option, about how exciting life as a non-schooler is and about what people who don't go to school do with their time.

2. refer: to a library of unschooling books and zines, thereby inferring legitimacy.
(task: put together a full library of unschooling books)

3. network students and their parents with dropouts/unschoolers and their parents.

4. reference: unschooling icons (einstein, mark twain, etc.)
(idea: unschooler trading cards... famous unschoolers/proponents of unschooling, create your own, etc.)

5. second hand: interest them in unschooling as a secondary/covert goal.


--skill shares. get them there, then possess a strong presence of proud unschoolers (without being alienating). show them that learning is an exciting process. introduce them into a new and interesting community.

6. infiltrate currently existing groups of students who are currently pursuing interests outside of schooling (environmental, humanitarian, etc. non-religious and non-sport oriented)

(thought: maybe the idea shouldn't be [yet] to reach more people, than it should be to reach fewer people effectively. One on one conversations are important. It will be key to be completely prepared at all times. To have a mental database of books, zines, people to contact, figureheads in support, local networks, places to use as resources, )

(thought: is there a way to hook up, somewhat undercover, with guidance counselors? like: if you're struggling in school, potential drop outs contact xyz. an undercover drop-out counseling service!)

student's concerns to address:

parents (won't let them)

friends (will leave them. no socializing.)

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Disclaimer: This post is an unfinished draft. It has not been fully thought out.

I am initiating a conversation about god.

I believe that if you ask, the universe will provide you with whatever it is that you seek. But what does this mean? First, I guess 'ask' must be defined. For a time, I 'asked' by 'casting a spell' within the Wiccan practice. To illustrate, I'll use the example of 'asking' for a romantic partner. The first thing I did was make a list of the qualities I wanted the person I was seeking to possess. Strong, I listed, courageous, funny, intelligent, fashionable--on and on. Then I performed a ceremony. Lit candles, set up a kind of alter where I represented multiple elements, chanted a phrase that embodied my request, and cut off a lock of hair. There wasn't a lot of science behind what I was doing--I wouldn't have been able to explain why it was important to create an alter, to have elements represented, to chant, to sacrifice my DNA. The list was important but I knew not to make it too specific, that by keeping it vague I was allowing the universe to fulfill my request sooner, easier. But by doing this, is all that I am really doing, making myself aware of what I want and making it a priority in my life? Once I have a list of the things I am looking for, it is that much easier to recognize them when they present themselves. By keeping things vague, once I meet someone I am attracted to, it's easier for me to look at them and apply these things to them. Now I've heard rumors about people 'asking' (be it casting a spell, visualizing, thinking positively, or meditating) for something extremely specific. Say one woman asks for a blond haired Korean man who owns a bank and a private jet. After having performed whatever ceremony this woman prefers, I should like to suggest that this action has, in fact, inspired confidence in her. She knows that the universe will bring her whatever she wants, and that all she has to do is let it happen. Now, when she one day does meet that blond haired, bank and private jet owning Korean, she already knows that she has him--that the universe brought him to her, and so on some level, she is relaxed, and that relaxation translates into confidence.
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