Unschooling - We don't need no education.

[Long Sun]

I can understand how unschooling could work but it works when parents take there children out it the world to engage with nature and stuff not sitting at home playing minecraft or watch anime. Heck some of the idea and philosophy of unschooling could ironically have a place inschool at the jr level to encourage this natural learning with nature walks and the like. However the vast vast vast majority of parents are unable to do unschooling in a way that will prepare there children to be efffective memeber of a post industrial society

 

[GS 281]

Bob moved into a pleasure palace an hour away with Chris, where they would share the same bed and he would be "Porky Piggin'". Chris needed sped classes but they forcefed him mainstreaming. It may be worse than Barb, but not by much.

I mean who wants to wake up with Bob's dick in their face?

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Other than me

 

[Mrs Paul]

I think for me, it was because one of my sibs already had it so I ended up with it anyway.

I got it from my cousin. He came over my house to play, while his brother and sister had it, and we didn't realize he was contagious, as he broken out yet. My sister got it, then I did. What really sucked is that right after I got over the chicken pox, I got strep throat.

 

[Trilby]

I got it from my cousin. He came over my house to play, while his brother and sister had it, and we didn't realize he was contagious, as he broken out yet. My sister got it, then I did. What really sucked is that right after I got over the chicken pox, I got strep throat.

That's a shame.

Noticed a clip of that episode is up on YouTube, courtesy of someone's crappy hand-held effort!

 

[cactus]

Keep in mind the shows were written by a older generation during those times, and perhaps they didn't know of these at all when they decided to write about someone getting the mumps or a chicken pox party at play. They wrote what they knew.

Well it was out since the late 70s, so they would have known about it if any of them had kids. But it most likely a case of them writing what they knew, yes.

 

[Trilby]

Well it was out since the late 70s, so they would have known about it if any of them had kids. But it most likely a case of them writing what they knew, yes.

Kinda like the way they liked to use "KLondike-5" as a telephone prefix in earlier episodes rather than "555". There was always an interest in out-of-date elements that often crept into the show.

 

[ICametoLurk]

http://education.penelopetrunk.com/...four-years-below-grade-level-and-i-dont-care/

Mother has kids that are grades away from what they are supposed to be at, but that's ok because it's all "semantics".

My thirteen-year-old is two grades behind in math and like five grades behind in language arts.

My ten-year-old can do multiplication tables and read. He does neither particularly well.

The reason I don’t care is this strikes me as semantic. For example, my older son is two grades behind in math but he just finished one year of math in three months.

And my younger reads Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate and has no interest in reading anything else besides People magazine. But you know what? He taught himself to read. It was incredible to watch. Incredible like when your baby just magically starts learning to talk.

I am starting to trust the research more and more. The research says kids don’t need to be taught math until they are in sixth grade. And now I believe it.

The research says neuro-typical kids don’t need to be taught to read.

I don’t have brilliant kids. I have regular kids who don’t do school curriculum.

I trust my kids that they’ll work hard at whatever they care a lot about. My older son does four hours of studying a day because he wants to be scientist.

Yes, four hours of studying will help him when he's two grades behind in math and five grades behind in language arts, which means grammar, composition, and spelling.

Kid is five grades behind in the ability to read and write and two grades behind in math, but that's ok. He'll become a brilliant scientist because he does four hours of studying a day.

So, my kids are behind in school, but I don’t think it matters. There’s plenty of time to catch up.

 

[Wallace]

If they learn that a random person's blog does not constitute "research" simply because you agree with it, they'll be ahead of their cunt of a mother.

 

[ICametoLurk]

lol I just took a look at the Comments section of that, pretty much all of them saying how great it is that they are behind except for this one guy

wow….just…wow.

It would be interesting to interview these and other unschooled children in a few decades and see how they feel about how their education( or lack thereof) prepared them for life.

As a person that grew up in a society full of involuntarily ‘unschooled’ children who would kill for the opportunities provided in the schools Americans so love to complain about; i cant help but see this entire philosophy as a product of ‘first world problems’.
Theres simply too much here so people create problems due to a lack of real problems. Often to prove a futile point. So what we have free education for all kids? Free universal education sucks! Our kids WONT go to school! We’ll show them!

But yet there’s all these complaints about immigrants taking U.S jobs and companies going overseas for talent…. hmm, i wonder why that is…..

Also lol at this comment

What do you do when your 12-year-old homeschooled daughter doesn’t seem to be interested in anything? There is absolutely NOTHING that she wants to spend her day doing, except for laying on the floor and stretching…

 

[Pointless Pedant]

If Chris had been "unschooled", would he be even more autistic than he is now?

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

If Chris had been "unschooled", would he be even more autistic than he is now?

I'm not sure you could make Chris any more autistic than what he's become.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

I'm not sure you could make Chris any more autistic than what he's become.

To peer into one man's autism is to hold a single grain of sand from a vast beach. Anyone can sink deeper into the morass of autism.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I'm not sure you could make Chris any more autistic than what he's become.

2 words: Bryce Cherry.

 

[Morose_Obesity]

Welcome to the world of Unschooling, an 'educational' style that basically boils down to not teaching your children jack shit. Basically, it's homeschooling but without any sort of curriculum, assignments, or schooling. Keep your children at home and allow them to learn everything just from everyday life. That A+ in Watching-Spongebob-ology is sure to get them far in life.

The basics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

A popular Unschooling community: http://www.mothering.com/forum/439-unschooling/

A popular guidebook on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Unschooling-Revolution-Has-Begun-Revised/dp/1460939980

Why didn't I start depriving my children of an education EARLIER?: http://www.homeschool.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1326&PID=10992

There's plenty of that in the Deep South. Now we have Trump.

 

[Acceptable]

Spoiler: NO SENSE OF TIME

Spoiler: "consent"

 

[Cripple]

Boy I was hoping this wasn't what it sounded like...and of course it's exactly what it sounds like.

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Why am I in school to be a teacher again?

I feel especially bad for kids who are illiterate. Yes, nerdy, but I think learning to read is the greatest thing we can ever learn because in that a person learns how to learn about anything, ever. But maybe keeping the kid in ignorance is necessary to keep up whatever bullshit lifestyle the parent is living.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Boy I was hoping this wasn't what it sounded like...and of course it's exactly what it sounds like.

Spoiler

Why am I in school to be a teacher again?

I feel especially bad for kids who are illiterate. Yes, nerdy, but I think learning to read is the greatest thing we can ever learn because in that a person learns how to learn about anything, ever. But maybe keeping the kid in ignorance is necessary to keep up whatever bullshit lifestyle the parent is living.

There's a reason America's Founding Fathers had giant boners for education and literacy. They firmly (and correctly) believed proper education was the best safeguard people have against tyranny.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

There's a reason America's Founding Fathers had giant boners for education and literacy. They firmly (and correctly) believed proper education was the best safeguard people have against tyranny.

And the sad part of that is with today's generation of idiots proving that even with literacy, they can't function in society.

Forget tyranny, just thinking is hard for them.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

And the sad part of that is with today's generation of idiots proving that even with literacy, prove they can't function in society.

Forget tyranny, just thinking is hard for them.

Lolcows like these are literate, but they don't have a very worthwhile education. Gender studies doesn't mean much, and I've actually never met anyone who studied it, which suggests they aren't actually that common off the Internet.

 

[Trilby]

And the sad part of that is with today's generation of idiots proving that even with literacy, prove they can't function in society.

Forget tyranny, just thinking is hard for them.

I find overthinking things too much is really the problem here. Nobody understands limitations anymore.