Wildflower Car

>I think the one thing unschooled kids miss out on is experiencing
>school. ;-) *We* (the unschooling parents) can speak with authority
>about how much better unschooling is because we've experienced both.
>We can point out to schooling parents who want to argue that their
>opinion on how learning must be is skewed because they've never
>experienced unschooling. Our kids are more like schooling parents in
>that they've only experienced unschooling. They can't speak with
>authority on how much better it is. ;-)

In my case, my parents didn't think much of the public school system. They
sometimes did my homework so I could play! I was unschooled from 12 on, so I
have some idea of the difference, but it's the whole "High School" thing
that she wants. In listening to her, I think she likes the idea of a group
of people unified in the same situation, good or bad. It's like she finds
unity in the idea of being where her friends are.

>And how can she truly know what crap it is until she's experienced
>it? Isn't that what unschooling is about: letting them learn by
>experience rather than by telling?

That is why we are letting her do it.


>Though some kids do pick up the damage that school does to their
>friends and will have an opinion on what they have to go through to
>learn, it really isn't the same as experiencing it first hand.

One thing is that she has been very vocal about the crap they are making her
do just to get in, so she is going into it with realistic expectations.


Wildflower

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