Tag: homeschooling
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‘Unschoolers’ in the news
We’ve been getting some great feedback since Unschoolers came out on March 30. First, Patrick Farenga mentioned us in a nice review of fiction inspired by unschooling and John Holt specifically. Then we chatted with Kristen Tea for a piece in Mothering. Michelle Ristuccia wrote a great review for the summer issue of Learning Tangent. Sophia…
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Gimme shelter
A headline caught my eye today. Even For Homeschoolers, There Is No Happily Ever After. The writer, Linda DeMers Hummel, had a job answering phones for a curriculum company whose clients were homeschoolers. Most of the questions were about math, but then she got a call from a mother who wouldn’t let her eighth grade…
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Another look at ‘Captain Fantastic’
Warning: Captain Fantastic spoilers follow! Last summer, I went to see the movie Captain Fantastic. There was much I enjoyed about it, but I also took issue with its portrayal of homeschooling. I wrote about my thoughts in a review. Several commenters disagreed with my interpretation of the ending, so I took another look. After…
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Unschooling: they still don’t get it
Today I came across an article about homeschooling by Mirza Yawar Baig that lifted a quote of mine from last year’s Boston Magazine article. In talking about my kids I said: “I wanted them to be in charge of their own education and decide what they were interested in, and not have someone else telling them…
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On depriving kids of screens
“Deprive” is such a loaded word. It came up this week in an online thread about technology, a long and winding discussion in response to a mom expressing concern about allowing her child unlimited screen time. Many unschoolers feel that limiting screen time does not mesh with unschooling philosophy, and said so. I shared my own story,…
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