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Home-schooling (Christian) (misc.education.home-school.christian)

From jon@armory.com Mon May 23 15:55:15 1994
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From: Jon Shemitz <jon@armory.com>
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Subject: RFD: misc.education.home
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1 - Proposed Charter:
 
A forum for the discussion of any and all aspects of home schooling:
>from completely unschooled and child-directed to rigidly 
curriculum-based and parent-led; from tips and experiences to 
meta-discussions of the nature of ideas and the structure of society.
 
The possible .christian group would be a forum specifically for those 
home schoolers who consider Christ the center of their life and the 
basis for all their decisions.  The creation of two groups would 
constitute a sort of fire wall that should help reduce tension between 
those who think that "secular humanism" is simply rationalism and those 
who think it is Satanism.
 
2 - Purpose:  Handle volume, manage diversity, increase accessibility.
 
2.1 - Volume: 
The number of home-schoolers seems to be growing every day.  Ditto the 
number of home-schoolers on the internet:  The home-ed mailing list has 
grown to the point where a few days of not reading your mail can mean 
you'll spend the better part of a day catching up.  People have started 
unsubscribing simply because they can't handle the volume, and messages 
sometimes bounce back to the list maintainer because some list members' 
mailboxes are full!
 
News readers, however, are better able to handle this sort of volume.  
One can read the threads that are personally interesting, and ignore the 
threads that are not, without having to scan the first page of each 
message.
 
2.2 - Diversity:
A news group would seem better able to contain a high level of 
diversity, with less of the violent antipathies that a single mailing 
list seemed to entail or the balkanization of discussion that 
specialized lists entails.  Instead of telling people to take a given 
discussion "out of my mailbox", one can just stop reading the thread, or 
even put it in their kill file.  Similarly, the ability to totally 
ignore messages from the people you find the most objectionable would 
certainly help reduce friction in a group as polarized as home 
schoolers.  
            
2.3 - Accessibility:
Further, a news group is a sort of central place that everyone can 
find.  I posted the prelimary RFD's to the four home schooling mailing 
lists that I know of, but the odds are good both that there are several 
home schooling mailing lists that I've never heard of and that there are 
many home schoolers who have never found any of the existing mailing 
lists.
 
3 - Dangling Issues:
 
3.1 - Need:
Do home schoolers (and potential home schoolers) want a newsgroup?  (I 
got about 50 replies from the mailing lists supporting a newsgroup; we 
need at least 100 yes votes AND a 2/3rds margin to create a group.) 
Certainly a "self advertising" newsgroup would get more trash than the 
mailing lists -- more bone-headed surveys, more MAKE.MONEY.FAST, and 
the like -- but I tend to think that this would be more than balanced by 
the greater range of discussion from people who never found the mailing 
lists.
 
3.2 - Name:
If a home school group should be created, what should it be called and 
where does the new group belong in the news group hierarchy?  I lean 
towards misc.home-school, but it's been pointed out that the Net Gods 
prefer to keep the number of groups directly under misc. to a minimum.  
 
While my personal preference (and seemingly that of at least a few 
others on the mailing list) is to put the group under misc.kids as 
"education" has connotations of Professional Teachers and all the sort 
of dumbing down that many of us are trying to avoid, the moderator 
of news.announce.newgroups felt that this *is* an education group, not 
another Kids Say The Darndest Things group, and so belongs in 
misc.education.  I guess this reduces the naming question to 
"misc.education.home or misc.education.home-school?"
 
One good argument for the former is that it is shorter, which is a good 
idea since there will inevitably be fragmentation.  Which brings me to
              
3.3 - Fire-wall:                    
As per the Charter, the differences between Christian and non-Christian 
home schoolers seem to generate a lot of flames, but nothing much in the 
way of useful discussion.  Perhaps would be a good idea to create >two< 
groups:  misc.education.home and misc.education.home.christian (or 
misc.education.christian.home)?
 
3.4 - Mail-link:
Some people can not read news groups.  Several of them said they would be 
for a news group if and only if it were set up so that all postings go 
to a mailing list, and all mail sent to the list gets posted.  I know 
this can be done, but don't know how to do it -- is anyone willing to 
step forward and volunteer to take care of this?

From jon@armory.com Tue Jun 14 14:44:24 1994
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From: jon@armory.com (Jon Shemitz)
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Subject: 2nd RFD: misc.education.home-school.{misc,christian}
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Since this is a follow-up to my 5-20-94 proposal to create 
misc.education.home and misc.education.home.christian, I'm going to omit 
all of the rationale for newsgroup creation that appeared in the 1st 
RFD.  (I'll be glad to mail a copy of the 1st RFD to anyone who can't 
find an archived copy.)  My intent in this 2nd RFD is to briefly 
summarize the discussion to date and the few resulting changes in my 
proposal.
 
Since a number of the people who have responded to the 1st RFD seem to 
know as little about newsgroup creation as I did a couple of months ago, 
I think I should mention that YOU CANNOT YET VOTE FOR THE NEW GROUP(S)! 
The newsgroup creation process has a number of rules which are intended 
to reduce the possibility of acrimony over creation (or non-creation) 
and they must be followed or the group will not be created.  One 
important one is that the actual voting period must be preceded by ca 30 
days of open discussion.  Another is that all votes must be sent to a 
neutral volunteer during the publicly announced voting period:  I cannot 
say "Oh, 25 people voted yes during the discussion period", even if some 
of those 25 do so publicly.  I will arrange for the formal vote on or 
around June 20th.
 
1 - Proposed Charter(s):
 
misc.education.home-school.misc is a forum for the discussion of any and all 
aspects of home-schooling: from completely unschooled and child-directed 
to rigidly curriculum-based and parent-led; from tips and experiences to 
meta-discussions of the nature of ideas and the structure of society.
 
misc.education.home-school.christian is a forum specifically for those 
home-schoolers who consider Christ the center of their life and the 
basis for all their decisions.  Keeping all such religious references 
and justifications in the .christian group constitutes a vital fire wall 
that helps reduce tension between those who think that "secular 
humanism" is simply rationalism and those who think it is Satanism.
 
2 - Issues:
 
2.1 - Need: 
The number of people who want at least the general newsgroup seems to be 
more than enough to create one.  Similarly, the people who oppose 
newsgroup creation (primarily because they feel it will degrade the 
discussions) can so far be counted on one hand -- much, much less than 
one in three!
 
2.2 - Name: 
In the 1st RFD, I proposed that we call the new group misc.education.home. 
Several people pointed out that this also includes things like the sort 
of Famous Writers' schools that advertise on match books or even 
home-owners' education, and thus that the more specific name 
misc.education.home-school was better.  This seems like a good point to 
me, so this 2nd RFD bears the longer name, as will the CFV (barring some 
mass uprising to the contrary).
 
Also, the Net God in charge of newsgroup creation feels that it's best 
not to create a group and subgroup simultaneously:  it's better to 
create two sibling groups.  That is, rather than 
misc.education.home-school and misc.education.home-school.christian, we 
should create misc.education.home-school.misc and 
misc.education.home-school.christian.  The reasoning is that this makes 
it easier for sysadmins to take only the general group; helps cuts down 
on cross-posting; and prevents any feeling that Christians are being 
stigmatized by being banished to a subgroup.  Personally, I think that a 
31 character group name is sort of long and unwieldy, but since few 
people type in a newsgroup name each time they want to read it, I 
suppose this really isn't an issue.
 
2.3 - Fire-wall: 
The proposal to create two groups has been the most controversial part 
of the RFD.  However, since there seems to be four or five supporters 
for every one opponent, it looks like we will be creating two groups. 
Further, since most of the opposition seemed to be from fundamentalist 
Christians who object to being stigmatized by being relegated to a 
subgroup, creating two fourth level groups may erase much of that 
opposition.
 
The remaining opposition was of the form "Why assume there will be 
trouble?  Why not create one group and split it if it proves 
necessary?", which seems to fly against the experience of the home-ed 
mailing list:  Before there was an explicitly Christian mailing list, 
there *were* a lot of flame wars.  Since then, there have been fewer 
flame wars, and they have been much milder.  
 
The broad (or secular) home-ed mailing list sees perhaps ten or fifteen 
times as many messages per day as the explicitly Christian list.  Many 
people participate in both lists, generally displaying very accurate 
judgment as to what would offend those people on the main list who don't 
share their (particular variety of) fundamentalist beliefs.
 
Finally, if we wait for trouble, we're facing over two months of totally 
avoidable flames as we circulate a RFD to split the group then wait 
through a CFV.  This brings me to:
 
3.4 - Moderation:
Several people posted messages saying, in effect, "If home-schoolers are 
so polarized, maybe the group(s) should be moderated."  I don't have a 
feel for the balance of opinion here, but I think the group(s) should be 
unmoderated for three basic reasons:  1) Perhaps most importantly, the 
mailing list fire wall basically does work.  Given that moderation, 
however benign, will slow and restrict discussion, I think that we 
should avoid it unless and/or until it seems absolutely necessary.  2) 
The home-ed list can sometimes see a hundred messages a day, and the
newsgroup will generate even higher volume.  Where will we find someone 
(with good connectivity) who's willing to read each and every one of 
those messages?  3) It's not enough to find someone on a good site who's 
willing to wade through a slush pile:  They must also be someone that 
people know, and trust to not reject messages simply because they 
disagree with them.
          
I suspect that moderation is the biggest remaining issue that we must 
resolve before we can issue a Call For Votes.  Please send your opinions 
to me via email, and I'll save them in a ftp-able file at 
deeptht.armory.com in the directory /pub/user/jon.
 
3.5 - Mail-link: 
We still have a problem here.  Some people can not read news groups. 
Several of them said they would be for a news group if and only if it 
were set up so that all postings go to a mailing list, and all mail sent 
to the list gets posted.  I know this can be done, but don't know how to 
do it -- so far, no one has been willing to step forward and volunteer 
to take care of this.  (Even if I did know how, news service to 
armory.com can be erratic.) I don't know if the absence of a gateway 
would generate enough NO votes to prevent the group(s) being created, 
but I'd really rather not find out!
 
Please, I know that maintaining a mailing list is a thankless job, but 
really, isn't there anyone out there who feels it's about time to give 
something back to Usenet?

From rdippold@qualcomm.com (RonDippold) Wed Jun 29 16:04:12 1994
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From: rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,misc.kids,misc.education
Subject: CFV: misc.education.home-school.{misc,christian}
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		     FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
	  unmoderated group misc.education.home-school.misc
	unmoderated group misc.education.home-school.christian

Newsgroups line:
misc.education.home-school.misc		Almost anything about home-schooling.
misc.education.home-school.christian	Christian home-schooling.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 20 July 1994.

After this CFV appears on news.announce.newgroups it will be sent to
the mailing lists:
  home-ed                         home-ed@world.std.com
  home-ed-politics                home-ed-politics@mainstream.com
  homeschool_train_up_a_child     homeschool_train_up_a_child@mainstream.com
  The Learning List               learning@sea.east.sun.com


This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact rdippold@qualcomm.com.  For questions about the
proposed group contact Jon Shemitz <jon@armory.com>.


CHARTER
 
misc.education.home-school.misc is a forum for the discussion of any and 
all aspects of home-schooling: from completely unschooled and 
child-directed to rigidly curriculum-based and parent-led; from tips and 
experiences to meta-discussions of the nature of ideas and the structure 
of society.
 
misc.education.home-school.christian is a forum specifically for those 
home-schoolers who consider Christ the center of their life and the 
basis for all their decisions.  Keeping all such religious references 
and justifications in the .christian group constitutes a vital fire wall 
that helps reduce tension between those who think that "secular 
humanism" is simply rationalism and those who think it is Satanism.
 
Neither group yet has a mailing list for a news<->mail gateway.  
Hopefully, this WILL happen before the end of the voting period.  In 
either case, a 2nd CFV will be posted, which will make it clear whether 
or not the gateways will be created.  Anyone who would vote AGAINST 
ungated newsgroups is cordially requested to wait until this 2nd CFV, to 
give us every possible chance to establish the gateways.
 
 
The volume on the home-ed mailing list has grown to be totally 
unmanageable, filling mailboxes and creating pleas to abort threads that 
get `too tangential'.  Newsreaders are better able to handle this 
volume, as one can simply ignore threads that are not interesting to 
you.  Newsgroups are also better able to handle diversity, as one can 
always add the most personally objectionable individuals to your kill 
file.  Finally, the discussion process for the creation of these 
newsgroups has made it amply clear that there are many home-schoolers 
who read news but who have never found the mailing lists.


HOW TO VOTE

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Only one vote per person, no more than one vote per account.  Addresses and
votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results list.

From rdippold@qualcomm.com (RonDippold) Tue Jul 12 15:10:54 1994
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From: rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold)
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Subject: 2nd CFV: misc.education.home-school.{misc,christian}
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                     LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
          unmoderated group misc.education.home-school.misc
        unmoderated group misc.education.home-school.christian

Newsgroups line:
misc.education.home-school.misc         Almost anything about home-schooling.
misc.education.home-school.christian    Christian home-schooling.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 20 July 1994.

After this CFV appears on news.announce.newgroups it will be sent to
the mailing lists:
  home-ed                         home-ed@world.std.com
  home-ed-politics                home-ed-politics@mainstream.com
  homeschool_train_up_a_child     homeschool_train_up_a_child@mainstream.com
  The Learning List               learning@sea.east.sun.com


This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact rdippold@qualcomm.com.  For questions about the
proposed group contact Jon Shemitz <jon@armory.com>.


CHARTER
 
misc.education.home-school.misc is a forum for the discussion of any and 
all aspects of home-schooling: from completely unschooled and 
child-directed to rigidly curriculum-based and parent-led; from tips and 
experiences to meta-discussions of the nature of ideas and the structure 
of society.
 
misc.education.home-school.christian is a forum specifically for those 
home-schoolers who consider Christ the center of their life and the 
basis for all their decisions.  Keeping all such religious references 
and justifications in the .christian group constitutes a vital fire wall 
that helps reduce tension between those who think that "secular 
humanism" is simply rationalism and those who think it is Satanism.
 
Neither group yet has a mailing list for a news<->mail gateway.  
Hopefully, this WILL happen before the end of the voting period.  In 
either case, a 2nd CFV will be posted, which will make it clear whether 
or not the gateways will be created.  Anyone who would vote AGAINST 
ungated newsgroups is cordially requested to wait until this 2nd CFV, to 
give us every possible chance to establish the gateways.
 
 
The volume on the home-ed mailing list has grown to be totally 
unmanageable, filling mailboxes and creating pleas to abort threads that 
get `too tangential'.  Newsreaders are better able to handle this 
volume, as one can simply ignore threads that are not interesting to 
you.  Newsgroups are also better able to handle diversity, as one can 
always add the most personally objectionable individuals to your kill 
file.  Finally, the discussion process for the creation of these 
newsgroups has made it amply clear that there are many home-schoolers 
who read news but who have never found the mailing lists.


HOW TO VOTE

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below the bottom "-=-=-=-" line.  Do not erase anything between these
lines and do not change the group names.

Give your name on the line that asks for it. For each group, place a YES or
NO in the brackets next to it to vote for or against it.  If you don't want
to vote on a particular group, just leave the space blank.  Don't worry
about spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your reply
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Send MAIL to:   voting@qualcomm.com
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votetaker will respond to your received ballots with a personal acknowledge-
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It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly.

Only one vote per person, no more than one vote per account.  Addresses and
votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results list.



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dacosta@prl.philips.nl                                          Paulo da Costa
dev1!harryr@uunet.uu.net                                     Harry Rockefeller
neufeld@dsd.northrop.com                                         James Neufeld
PETTIJOB@WOOD-VINES.ARMY.MIL.WOOD-VINES.ARMY.MIL          MR BRADLEY PETTIJOHN
sam.neosoft.com@sam.neosoft.com                         Thomas D. Johnston, MD

From rdippold@qualcomm.com (RonDippold) Thu Jul 21 18:26:40 1994
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                               RESULT
      misc.education.home-school vote results - 280 valid votes

 Yes   No : 2/3? >100? : Pass? : Group
---- ---- : ---- ----- : ----- : -------------------------------------------
 235   28 :  Yes   Yes :   Yes : misc.education.home-school.misc
 206   53 :  Yes   Yes :   Yes : misc.education.home-school.christian


Newsgroups line:
misc.education.home-school.misc         Almost anything about home-schooling.
misc.education.home-school.christian    Christian home-schooling.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact rdippold@qualcomm.com.  For questions about the
proposed group contact Jon Shemitz <jon@armory.com>.


CHARTER
 
misc.education.home-school.misc is a forum for the discussion of any and 
all aspects of home-schooling: from completely unschooled and 
child-directed to rigidly curriculum-based and parent-led; from tips and 
experiences to meta-discussions of the nature of ideas and the structure 
of society.
 
misc.education.home-school.christian is a forum specifically for those 
home-schoolers who consider Christ the center of their life and the 
basis for all their decisions.  Keeping all such religious references 
and justifications in the .christian group constitutes a vital fire wall 
that helps reduce tension between those who think that "secular 
humanism" is simply rationalism and those who think it is Satanism.
 
The volume on the home-ed mailing list has grown to be totally 
unmanageable, filling mailboxes and creating pleas to abort threads that 
get `too tangential'.  Newsreaders are better able to handle this 
volume, as one can simply ignore threads that are not interesting to 
you.  Newsgroups are also better able to handle diversity, as one can 
always add the most personally objectionable individuals to your kill 
file.  Finally, the discussion process for the creation of these 
newsgroups has made it amply clear that there are many home-schoolers 
who read news but who have never found the mailing lists.


misc.education.home-school vote Final Vote Ack


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                                         misc.education.home-school.misc ---+|
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ABjanes@aol.com                                                 Atle Bjanes YY
adams@kona.wes.army.mil                                    F. P. Adams, Jr. YY
adams@spss.com                                                  Steve Adams YY
adlib@netcom.com                                                 Edith Weil YN
aem@Symbiosis.AHP.Com                                       Andrew Mossberg Y-
akilgour@Thinkage.On.CA                                       Anita Kilgour -N
alan@edstar.gse.ucsb.EDU                                         Alan Moses YY
alan@mars.ak.planet.co.nz                                      Alan Marston Y-
alastair.dickson@almac.co.uk                               Alastair Dickson Y-
anne@alcor.concordia.ca                                        Anne Bennett Y-
antdh@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu                                      Donna Horne Y-
antersbe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de                    Sterfan Antersrberger NN
ask@SEI.CMU.EDU                                                Alan S. Koch YY
ault@cs.albany.edu                                                 Jim Ault YY
AXTCC@acad2.alaska.edu                   AXTCC - Midnight 786-4646/786-1889 YY
bailey@hagar.ph.utexas.edu                                        Ed Bailey NN
baker@nova.umd.edu                                               Rita Baker YY
BArmstrong@dymaxion.ns.ca                                     Ben Armstrong YY
bcrespo@nyx.cs.du.edu                                           Beth Crespo YY
BECKYMS@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu                                  Rebecca Smith YY
ben@nj8j.atl.ga.us                                                          YY
bert_al@pts.mot.com                                         Alice Bertelson YY
bgallant@cisco.com                                            Blair Gallant YY
BJOHNSON@ddsc.desc.dla.mil                                  Brad W. Johnson NY
blixt@aqua.oorg.kth.se                                          Johan Blixt -N
brad.andrews@cas.org                                           Brad Andrews YY
brand_p@sccd.cc.ca.us                                            Paul Brand YY
candacel@firefly.prairienet.org                          Candace Leatherman YY
carol@abbott.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM                                Carol Thomas YY
carol@sybase.com                                         Carol Deboo Pitkin Y-
cburian@uiuc.edu                                         Christopher Burian YY
ccilek@nyx10.cs.du.edu                                          Chuck Cilek YY
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