16 year old Anna recently started a blog titled Adversarian: the musings of a changing mind. She describers herself as “an unschooled teen recovering from public school.” From An Argument for Unschooling: Embracing Curiosity:
Unschoolers don’t ( figuratively speaking ) sit in an empty library, waiting for their children to ask for a book. Instead they [...]
Sometimes the distinction between schooling and homeschooling are not always as jaw droppingly stark:
“Mommy, can I have this clock?” said the younger girl, who was around age 6. She was holding a children’s book with a built in analog clock for learning to tell time.
“No, that’s too old for you,” answered her mother.
I don’t know [...]
My bias is showing when I tell you the family story told in Faking it attracted me right off. Another great bio sets the stage:
When you spilled the milk, did it look like the moon?
Well, it might have for a moment, but then the baby started stomping in it…
To entice you further to visit.
I had [...]
That sophomoric post at Teacher, Revised got a lot of attention over the weekend. I will admit that the title, “The case against homeschooling”, caught my attention and the post “#5ed” me a bit too. The attempt to bring the discussion to an adult level is welcome.
I don’t have much patience for that kind of [...]
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