Stephanie Elms, of Virginia, writes very thoughtfully about the dichotomy of unschooling as mainstream news fodder in her blog, Throwing Marshmallows, in a post she titles ‘Education as a Rat Race‘::
“I will admit that I am not a big fan of seeing unschooling articles in mainstream publications. It can be hard to convey what unschooling is and how it can work and there is a tendency to loose some in translation. Not to mention it opens us to scrutiny and criticism by people who are unfamiliar with homeschooling, much less unschooling. I do understand that it can be nice to see positive articles, but I still worry a little about imperceptions that can arise from these one-dimensional representations of something that is much fuller and more nuanced in practice.”
It’s a lengthy bit of writing, but worth every word.
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