Unschooling

I don’t have any background in education, so please forgive me if anything about this post is obvious/over discussed. Also writing this on mobile so hopefully paragraphs work.

I used to follow this lady on Instagram under the ruse that she was a fitness instructor or something. Didn’t take long to realize that her Instagram is mostly just her taking pictures of her kids, which kind of bothers me. ANYWAY she claims on the Instagram to be an “unschooler”; I looked it up on Wikipedia, it’s pretty much not teaching your kids at all? Is this legal? Do I not understand how this system (or lack of system) works?

I agree that the sentiment is nice, and that maybe the testing system is flawed, and that lots that they teach in schools is probably irrelevant. But if my parents had “unschooled” me, my opportunities now (age 21) would be limited and I would be resentful of that.

Please, any insights would be wonderful. I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on the subject of unschooling.

Submitted July 23, 2018 at 02:40PM by _kanyay https://ift.tt/2uUxZPK