1) How do you find these families to source directly?
2) Possibly playing a bit of devil's advocate here... please this consider a rhetorical question: Based upon your selectivity, what if people were to accuse you of being elitist in running your group, and demand you be more inclusive...?
As mentioned, I have a large local community. No, families are not sourced based on LOG or academic achievement! I'll let you in on a secret...to ensure that people don't throw accusations around, I don't insist on parent participation but my groups are set up in a way that students benefit best through parent participation. That's a very good way to determine who is really interested and will contribute time/ space/ money or all 3. So if someone is interested to join in (not sourced directly) they are very welcome to but unless they contribute in some way, their kids don't fully benefit. I've never turned anyone away but anyone who drops drops willingly because they realize they have to sustain the group too. We don't ask for money but parents bring snacks for example or volunteer time to teach or email links for everyone to watch/ research before a class meets. I don't do these any more because my son is so busy now. It was really very fun while it lasted. It is much easier when they are of elementary/ middle school age.
2) By what means have these discoveries "come out" that families have had something to hide because the children were not as described?
I wish I could type all of that out but no, I really am not going to. You can choose to not believe me, it's totally fine!
5) The community you describe seems to be a community without capacity limit. Are you interested to share it with this forum, in the event some of us may not already belong?
I would be happy to but that would mean giving away my location which I am not very comfortable doing right now (other posters have insisted that we should all be aware this is a public forum!
). I do not mean that I belong to one specific group. We are homeschoolers/hackschoolers/unschoolers/hybrid schoolers of some form or another. Most activities happen during usual school hours and why families with kids in B&M schools usually don't join in. There are national / international homeschooling groups and these are just a Google away. I sometimes meet families through those homeschooling groups and then after exchanging PMs, we might realize that we don't live too far away from each other!
I don't know if I will be around much here but if I can help in some way I would be happy to. Thanks!
