7 Responses to “unschooling?”

1. old lady on August 10th, 2009 3:19 am
   

   Homeschooling Feedback: Judging by some of the spelling and grammar on Yahoo, it looks as though a fair portion of the population has been unschooled ….
2. Steph on August 12th, 2009 8:37 pm
   

   Homeschooling Feedback: Search People magazine’s website. I read an article about this in one of their editions within the last 2 months.
3. homeschoolmom on August 13th, 2009 7:39 am
   

   Homeschooling Feedback: One of the better books on unschooling is, “The Teenage Liberation Handbook” by Grace Llewellyn. In it, she goes into detail about how to unschool high school and what happens after. See if your local library has it. If not, it’s available on Amazon.
4. hamtaro on August 13th, 2009 2:03 pm
   

   Homeschooling Feedback: Unschooling is more about having the children experience life, and learning through that experience.

   For example, an unschooler doesn’t follow a strict schedule, curriculum, or plan (necessarily). If the kids read a book during the day that is considered “Reading”. Or maybe they write a letter to their friend, which would be considered “Handwriting” or “Grammar”.

   We often blur the lines here between homeschooling and unschooling, as we like to do a bit of both. We have a curriculum. We don’t have strict time-lines. I believe that experience or hands-on far outweighs the benefits from using a book to learn about something.

   You can go to and get much information. It’s just a bit of a different way to homeschool.

   Good luck!
5. ericabishop691 on August 14th, 2009 11:52 am
   

   Homeschooling Feedback: i agree with what the person who said it is another way to homeschool.. it just means that there is not rigid,set carven in stone way to teach your kid. I homeschooled my kids and all I got was alot of flack from neighbors,and the state called on me for “edutational neglect” .I finally put my kids in school,and no one has bothered me since. I wholeheartedly believe in homeschooling,and i support it, but I think my reasons are such, tht I am a rebel against society,and want to see the looks on ppl faces,especially teachers,when I tell them my kid is homeschooled. So my reasons,i don’t think, warrent homeschooling,even though,I am totally for it!
6. suni on August 15th, 2009 7:59 pm
   

   Homeschooling Feedback: Unschooling is really just a buzz word that seems extremly popular at the moment and depending on who you speak to ,it has different meanings. The main concept that “unschoolars are trying to get across is that they don’t follow a set path like schools,instead they follow the interests and needs of each child and learn about the things that the child is interested in. So that the child is still learning but in a non formal setting.Most unschoolars that I know have students who have gained university entrance through SAT tests and they have all had extremly high scores. As with all homeschooling there are many ways to do it and this is one that seems to work for some. Hope this is helpful
7. Kym on August 19th, 2009 7:59 am
   

   I was “unschooled” way back before it was a fad or anyone had come up with a term for it.
   It was tough only because of family and critics who were very skeptical of our parents, they were also reported by two family members to CPS on two different occasions because they thought unschooling was an inapropriate/uneffective schooling meathod.

   We eventually stopped telling family and other people and just told them we were homeschooled without going into details about it or flat out lied if asked what our grade was or what curriculum was being taught. Despite the critical eyes, I am so thankful my parents schooled us that way. We have an interest in learning that is still unsatiable to this day. We were all very well educated on a self taught “curriculum.” All five of us were above the education level of high schoolers when we took our GED tests. And we all have gained employment quite easily (once you have a college degree, highschool is of no concern to employers).

   We were taught basic reading and math at elementary age, but everything else we learned was on the free reign we were given at the library or in living life.
   My father was pleasantly surprised to see us advance to reading books well above his own education level by the time we were “junior high” age. We preformed our own science experiments, studied history, designed (drew scaled plans) and built our own club house, etc, etc.

   And the one thing that worries most, socialization. Though we did interact with children our own age, we mostly avoided them and prefered to converse with adults. We found public schooled children our age very inmature. It’s not that we didn’t like to play or have fun, but many of the activities we saw these children doing “for fun” were distasteful or even forbiden by parental rules (or comon sense). If we did interact with children, we prefered other homeschooled children.

   I have heard many “experts” say unschooling could only be effective with upper class, well educated parents and the average or lower class family would be at a disadvantage, but we are five children of blue collar working parents who were a high school drop out and a “C” average high school graduate.
   “Unschooling” can work for anyone.

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