Unschooling - Learning in the Real World!
With few exceptions, invention is the provenance of youthful insight; cut that spring of ideas off by embedding the young in a network of rules and judgements, and you should expect important negative consequences.
-John Taylor Gatto, from Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Who am I? Probably about the last person you'd expect to be unschooling, let alone radical unschooling. Before becoming a mom in 2003 I was an elementary school teacher. I held dual certifications in regular and special education, and taught … [Read More...]
Those of you who checked my status on facebook yesterday have already heard the sad news. Faith's cactus is now among the dearly departed. … [Read More...]
Your children will certainly see you angry from time to time, and how you handle those situations will teach them a lot. Will you teach them that … [Read More...]
We went to a homeschool gathering today at a local park. It was a raw, chilly, gray kind of day, but I left with a warm glow. It was such a beautiful … [Read More...]
We judge and evaluate [a child] in a place where he has not been comfortable enough to engage in good conversations. In school, he has felt in need of … [Read More...]
