Comments on: This is NOT a homeschool room. I don’t WANT a homeschool room.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:45:51 +0000

Master’s in homeschooling…love it!

Ours won’t have much multimedia in it, I fear. A tape deck and a CD player, but a computer desk won’t fit in that tiny room. We’ll see. A laptop is in our longish-term goals and they’re a little more portable and space savvy.
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By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:31:57 +0000

My own master’s back in the dark ages (the 70s) was in school media and library science. Libraries at school even then were becoming multimedia including music, movies and nascent computers, definitely for learning resources of all kinds and not very quiet anymore! The profession started calling it the “school media center” rather than library and the librarians became “school media specialists.”

OTOH if you look at university and public libraries today, they are just as multimedia, packed with resources in addition to books, very user-friendly and some going virtual in a big way. The FSU main library is renovating right now and after a student survey, they’re putting in a snack bar, all sorts of social spaces instead of just isolated reading, etc. So if the idea of being home is to learn without Schooling between you and the Education, then library is imo perfect!
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By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:21:08 +0000

This isn’t a homeschool room. It’s a library.

Exactly! And with a nod to Sunniemom, we have a home library AND books in every other room . . .

So Favorite Daughter as a junior at university after all that unschooling with our home library and books in every room, recently decided that instead of going on past in the bachelor’s in English, her graduate degree and career will be in — what else? — library and information science with musuem curator certification, um, I mean, a master’s in “homeschooling!”
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By: Sunniemom

Sunniemom — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:27:58 +0000

I resisted a ‘homeschool room’ for years as well, but we always end up with one so that the kids have a space to do whatever without having the clean it up every day.

There’s no way I could name one room of my house ‘the library’ though- every room has floor to ceiling books- and we are putting in more shelves this weekend.
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By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:36:00 +0000

I wish there were enough space in their for a sofa! I need to figure out something in the way of seating. Maybe some nice, soft cushions?
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By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:00:10 +0000

I have the same space…and now that I have it I simply love having shelves in the closet so I can house the craft stuff (and my kiddos can reach some of it!) There are book shelves and white boards and two chairs set for anyone to sit in here at anytime. BUT we still do school wherever we like, especially at the kitchen table.

It is called our study, because I think it’s ridiculous to make this room a home school room alone. Enjoy your new space!!
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By: ChristineMM

ChristineMM — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:40:47 +0000

Oh and the library also has the microscope, some art and sculptures the kids made, some dinosaur models and other kid creations, crystals grown on rocks etc.

But I still call it a library not a homeschool room.
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By: ChristineMM

ChristineMM — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:39:43 +0000

The room of mine like that I call a library. Mine has wall to wall bookcases, this computer desk of mine too. A loveseat, leather chair and ottoman, coffee table, sofa table & 2 end tables (all that stuff is hand me down’s).

I refuse to have a homeschool room. So I have a library. LOL
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By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:34:53 +0000

We recently repurposed a tiny room in our house to be the place we keep our homeschool supplies – it is too tiny to do work in there. We call it our resource room.

By: Zayna

Zayna — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:24:45 +0000

I love it! I think calling it a library is the perfect compromise. There’s a place for homeschooling stuff without having to assume that all the homeschooling takes place in said room.

Awesome.