Re: Unschooling
The rush to home school in this country really worried me. People train for years to teach if anyone can do why bother training people ? I also think some use it as a way to keep kids within certain religions or ideals. That's not healthy children should mix and learn to socialise with all sectors.Re: Unschooling
I think the story of this family is wonderful. It’s certainly true that parents nowadays don’t have much choice in their children’s education unless one can afford to pay to send them to a private school where they have some idea of the subjects being taught.Re: Unschooling
Comments from the mother, ‘Unschooling is a very misleading term. It suggests that we try to avoid anything that resembles school at all costs, but it simply isn’t true. I guess in short unschooling to us is a constant learning through life in the same way an adult does. When we are grown up we either learn through passion or through need.'Re: Unschooling
I know little about this subject, but I do think children should be mixing and inter-reacting with others of similar age, the good and the not so good, because they learn the difference that way.Re: Unschooling
I homeschooled my children for a year and was also a public school teacher. We interacted with other homeschooled kids once a week. While many of us chose different curricula for our children, those kids who were unschooled were undereducated and typically unable adhere to any norms like rules or consideration of others. The parents of this philosophy were usually undereducated themselves.Re: Unschooling
I have a friend who home-schooled her son. She had a network of similar parents and the kids mixed with each other. She is highly educated & intelligent herself and he's definitely ahead academically. I didn't approve for the same reasons others have given, but he seems to be doing ok.Re: Unschooling
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