Sylvia Toyama

If you lived in a State that did not allow you to unschool, would you
move? Would you put them in public school? If they did not allow you
the freedom to wait until they are 10 or older to learn to read at
their own pace, and required you to put them in school, would you stand
for it?


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I would absolutely move.  We also own our home, but I'd walk away from it in a hot minute if living if I couldn't live as I want to. 

It's just a piece of land with a building on it.  Weighed against my children's whole lives, it's nothing.

Sylvia

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Pam Sorooshian

On 4/22/2009 11:55 PM, Sylvia Toyama wrote:
> If you lived in a State that did not allow you to unschool, would you
> move? Would you put them in public school? If they did not allow you
> the freedom to wait until they are 10 or older to learn to read at
> their own pace, and required you to put them in school, would you stand
> for it?
>

There is no state in which unschooling is impossible, though. There are
people happily unschooling in every state. Some people have more hoops
to jump through and they've figured out how to do it in such a way that
it does not interfere with or impact their children's lives.

I wouldn't move because I love where I live, and I have a very close
extended family that lives within a few miles of each other. My sisters'
families and mine are close - I see my sisters a couple of times per
week and the cousins hang out together regularly. I value that a lot.
If my kids had to take tests or I had to fill out some paperwork or do
some sort of portfolio - we'd manage.

-pam