We sit him down at a desk, and what do we teach him? What counts here, and the only thing that counts, is what we know, what we think is important, what we want you to do, think and be.” The child soon learns not to ask questions – the teacher isn’t there to satisfy his curiosity. As for protecting the children from exploitation, the chief and indeed only exploiters of children these days are the schools. Public school tends to make us not want to doubt what we have been taught. Very odd, and sad!Again, great, thought-provoking blog! For me, simply put, school is a badly designed institution - children sitting at desks, too much focus on book-learning, neglect of everything non-academic, crazy concept of a curriculum of things every person must know, too many still-in-formation young people of identical age given identical tasks and approval/disapproval meted out by adults.

Cheers!

Learning is over, life has begun; or so they believe.

Facilitators aid in the learning process when necessary. I agree totally! With the internet I see education changing dramatically over time.

All we find out is what he doesn’t know which is what most tests are for, anyway. Taught middle school - very briefly. But I'm with you on not bashing school. Unschooled children learn to make their own decisions. I’m totally fine with unschooling when it involves the parent serving as a facilitator of child-led learning in an educationally rich atmosphere in which the parent listens to the needs and desires of the child.

I do many things, but in the last few years got very interested in handguns here in New Hampshire, USA. He compares, a thousand times a day, the difference between language as he uses it and as those around him use it.

I am very upset with myself.

The stereotypical picture of an uneducated child spending all day playing video games or watching television does not begin to uncover the reality of unschooling. And also, what suits at each particular time of a person's life. Some people say to me "this is fine for you- you are intelligent and well-spoken, but what about all those OTHER PEOPLE who aren't going to do right by their kids" - if I were not going to bend over backwards and do all that I could for my kids' educations and were a lazy, non-intelligent, or otherwise uninvolved parent, why wouldn't I just send them off on the bus to be someone else's responsibility for the day instead of taking on the mantle of home education? She loves school, though I find some of what she is taught, like hard core old testament religion, hard to stomach. I think most people know how much I love unschooling by now.

Of course, we all LOVE unschooling, otherwise, why would we do it?

Everything we teach about reading, a task far simpler than many that the child has already mastered, says to him, “If we don’t make you read, you won’t, and if you don’t do it exactly the way we tell you, you can’t”.

People will continue to learn and grow all their lives, so a piece of paper will not show that they have finished learning for the first...18 years of their lives. (CA.). They are totally different in how they teach kids and in how they respect kids let alone the expectations. Being a mom of four near-teens now I remember those maddening younger years- and my last two were twins! The children need real freedom to learn by themselves, to imagine, to create, to flow., and in the meantime, their parents need time to grow, to learn, to try things. (Yes, unschoolers do take classes sometimes :P) I guess the difference is the concept of "extra time." Many unschoolers don't like mentioning cons due to lack of pleasure derived or not wanting to look bad.

I had many an irritating question on myriad topics, but you really have to do your own thinking and make your own choices.

girls? But I do think that unschooling parents put a heck of a lot of effort into being positive role models and providing a good and happy life for their children, and this inçludes not dwelling on the negative or moping around and complaining all the time. The most interesting thing in the classroom – often the only interesting thing in it – is the other children, but he has to act as if these other children, all about him, only a few feet away, are not really there. Resources to Teach Sight Words and Spelling Practice: A Guide For Children & Parents, An Engaging Communities Unit for the Third Grade Class.

I know a ton of unschoolers who are attending college now. Let me know what you think! (not to mention hundred other things. She told me that her mother had textbooks, and planned to get through them with her and her siblings, but just never actually did—and that her mother used “unschooling” as an excuse for this failure. However, children in public schools, and often those in structured homeschools, are taught to take tests. Of course, as a school child, I never said this.

Let them get at this job, with our help if they ask for it, in the way that makes most sense to them. And so, in this dull and ugly place, where nobody ever says anything very truthful, where everybody is playing a kind of role, as in a charade where the teachers are no more free to respond honestly to the students than the students are free to respond to the teachers or each other, where the air practically vibrates with suspicion and anxiety, the child learns to live in a daze, saving his energies for those small parts of his life that are too trivial for the adults to bother with, and thus remain his. She told me she very much wanted to get a college education, but not only had no textbooks to learn from but was actually kept so busy she wasn’t allowed time to study. I sent my older 2 through public school and it was the WORST. if i have questions for you...is it better to comment or email? Unschooling schools offer parents who believe in the unstructured philosophy, but find home education impractical, a viable option. “Your child won’t be prepared for the real world.”.

Unschooling creates an environment that is tailored to meet a child’s individualized learning needs. We should let him do it himself. etc. I was thoroughly schooled.

Thank you for being honest enough to talk about the downsides.



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