Cascadia Learning Cooperative

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We are sad to announce that we will be closing our cooperative. It has been and honor and a joy to serve the homeschooling and unschooling families of the Eugene/Springfield area. We wish everyone wellness and hope to come back together to learn and play soon!

We need to sell all of our furniture, games and curriculum this week! Go here to check out what's for sale:
https://www.cascadialearning.com/for-sale

Today our TWIGS group visited the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to see The Usual Suspects exhibit. It is very powerful and we recommend checking it out. This month as we learn about the Black Lives Matter movement, it feels important to take time to recognize and honor the human lives that have been taken unjustly. Rest in Power black sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, friends and fellow Americans who died at the hands of racism. We will keep learning and listening and doing the work needed to make our society one where black lives are valued as much as white lives.

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MLK March & Celebration!

Come explore alternative education options on Saturday, January 25th from 1pm to 4pm at the Eugene Public Library! This event is hosted by Cascadia.

https://www.eugene-or.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=21175&month=1&year=2020&day=17&calType=0

"Is School Really Working for Your Child?
If your child is losing their love of learning or their spirit is being crushed by meaningless tests, the drudgery of homework, or abusive authority, how long can you pretend all is well? Schools are broken and falling further behind as the world changes more quickly than they can adapt.

Most of the heavy labels kids carry today — like “below average” and “bad at math” — are a direct product of a school system treating children like they are machines to passively absorb programming in a standard manner instead of active, living, creative beings with their own paths to tread. A broken system saddles children with labels to mask its own failure and ineffectiveness, miseducating kids’ relationships to their abilities and potential in ways that can influence them for the rest of their lives.

The problems even spill over from the classroom into home life. Parents are supposed to be enforcers on their behalf, frowning on poor grades and bribing them for good performance. Why should you spend your precious time with them nagging about homework? Or doing it for them?

School shouldn’t be a punishment – childhood isn’t a crime. A school’s job should be to adapt to your child’s learning needs, not to bend your child into the mold of an obedient, unthinking drone.

It’s time to try a place that nourishes children’s hungry minds and heals their energetic spirits."

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