grit's day: Unschooled?

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Unschooled?

So have you all read the article in Psychology Today? The Benefits of Unschooling.

You don't come to grit's day to be first in the news loop, so I bet you have. The comments are worthwhile; the article referred to in there is 'My experience as an unschooler'.

Come on you people who've been home educated; blast out your stories of delight to misery. We need the mix.

Me, I have a problem with all labels and definitions. Are we autonomous? Unschooling? Eclectic? Structured? Just don't ask me. We've tried a bit of everything from alternative provision to running about the garden dressed as a rabbit. I want the label, Muddling Along.

2 comments:

Clare said...: I hadn't seen the article! Thanks Grit :-); 9 March 2012 at 00:30
suzywoozy said...: I like muddling along, I used to say autonomous, then I was told that wasn't a proper label for me so tried radical unschooler because I like the idea of being radical at something. But I'm not really TCS and we do send the kids to bed and I have a rule that says that if you do baking you have to do the dishes so I think I'm not a radical unschooler, so I'm back to autonomous, but I did make my dd work for her environmental management IGCSE once she had made the decision to do it so maybe I don't even count as autonomous, usually these days I think we are mostly inconsistent. So I'll take muddling along inconsistently for us.; 10 March 2012 at 10:35

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The UK government suggested that we home educate our children to cover up our abuse.
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Hello DCSF. Vilify: to make vicious and defamatory statements about.
Like putting it about that home educated children are abused by their parents? Isolated? Unsocialised? Denied an education?
And the latest one, that their mothers have Munchhausen's Syndrome by Proxy, and benefit from their child's suffering.

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By implication this applies to anyone who has their child at home with them: particularly parents with under 5s, but also those with school-aged children who are at home in the evenings, over the weekends, and throughout the summer holidays. Think on: the possibility of parental inspection, with or without your presence, based on the very human whim of a local authority officer.
Is that okay with you?
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