What is un-schooling?

teakum

I just had a patient tell me that she was home schooling her childeren and then said its actuall unschooling. She did not go into and further details. Have any of you heard of this?

aubie96

I just googled it: http://www.unschooling.com/library/faq/definitions.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

HTH!!!

teakum

WOW! I hope her kids learn something from this. Me personally I never would have learned any math, or science, if it were up to me as a child.

Iove.wins

I homeschooled for 9 years. I know people who did this, and their kids ended up flipping burgers at Sonic's waiting on the world to see what talented actors/musicians/artists they were, refusing to enter society as an adult... I've been out of high school for 5 years and I still hear from my former classmates "The typical workforce just doesn't work for me. I just don't think God made me for a regular schedule". That might be the case at times, but I think a lot of that has more to do with how people are raised. JMO.

I'm not saying all people end up that way, I'm just sharing what I've seen.

In my own experience, my mom did a little bit of this along with our regularly scheduled book work. We always had "labs" for whatever we were learning about in our textbooks- for example, when we were learning percentages and fractions in math my mom took us comparison shopping at Walmart and we had to figure out how much more expensive one item was than another by using decimals, percentages, and fractions. She adapted whatever she could from the outside world into what we were learning in our books.

But if I had it my way growing up, we wouldn't have done math at all, and I would have just read books and wrote stories all day which is why I believe that parental involvement -in particular, boundaries and schedules- are important.

teakum

Oh no poor kids. The mom is not  to bright she her self said she hated school and almost did not graduate because she never went.