Dr. Phil "Homeschooling" Show Airs Today
Posted by: hopechestnews <hopechestnews@...>
From: Tracy Driver
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:28 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Heads Up! Dr. Phil "Homeschooling" Show Airs Friday!]
Hi friends,
I thought you might be interested in the info below. Friends and family who don't understand homeschooling might have questions or negative comments for all of us after seeing this show on Friday. Just a heads up.
-Tracy
Dr. Phil is doing a show on homeschooling that airs this coming Friday. (See info forwarded from Karen Taylor of the California Homeschool Network via
another list below.) I just watched the trailer at http://drphil.com/. In it, Dr. Phil interviews an unschooling family.
First, Dr. Phil sets it up by saying (in his punctuated manner), "No assigned books, no tests, no grades -- as though school doesn't even exist."
(The implication? Learning doesn't exist.)
Next, he becomes exasperated with the mom on the issue of children "choosing" to go to school.
Finally, he says to the parents, "Your kids don't work against deadlines." The mom responded, "They have their own deadlines." Dr. Phil's response:
"That's not the way it works. I would be a vegetable if my parents had done that to me."
This doesn't look good for the homeschooling team. You can read the background on this particular homeschool show provided by a homeschool parent who was in the audience that day at: http://localhs.com/scuttle/2006/10/great-school-debate.asp
You are welcome to forward this info to others.
As for the show this Friday...if you watch it, you can email Dr. Phil with your feedback here:
http://drphil.com/plugger/respond/?plugID=9164
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: Dr. Phil takes on homeschooling
The Dr. Phil show will be airing what homeschoolers in California think will be a very anti-homeschooling show this Friday. It was originally scheduled to be aired a month ago, but it was moved to the day after Thanksgiving. Some homeschoolers wrote in and complained after the taping, and the date was rescheduled, perhaps because they thought fewer people might be watching.
Several California Homeschool Network local contacts were invited to be in the audience, and one of them wrote a detailed accounting that
others who were there agreed was an accurate description of the experience. It was originally discussed on the CaliforniaHS Yahoo
list, and Annette Hall put it on her website, so others could easily refer to it: http://localhs.com/scuttle/2006/10/great-school-debate.asp
Dr. Phil's website now has a promotional video clip of the show you can watch to get an idea of how it's going to go: http://drphil.com/
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