Carlo Ricci on Parents Talk

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Education

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• education
• unschooling

[asubjectiveopinion]

All of my partners have had depressingly conservative views on parenting and education.

I'm 40 now and I don't think that there's much chance of me starting a family now.

It's a shame, but progressive education hasn't really "happened" in the UK yet.

One thing is sure, I would never subject a child of mine to school.

[Captainofbadasssquad]

I cheer for you, but my heart aches for those still being forced through that Hell. I'm in college now, and my wonderful family is attempting to help undo the damage school did to me. I doubt I'll ever get better, but thank God people are taking better alternatives to school.

[Captainofbadasssquad]

I broke. I cried, well into half an hour. My resolve to become a writer momentarily vanished for the first time ever. I missed out on a great education, and instead got stuck with...with...this! Thanks to school I can't function well enough with others, the very idea of collaboration terrifies me without cease. The fact that all this loss could have been avoided all along is absolutely maddening!

[Captainofbadasssquad]

Both my grades and my sanity hung by a thread, I didn't care about learning anymore...I just wanted it all to leave me alone! The bullying instigated my aversion to social interaction, I began to prefer isolation. High School drew to a close, relief enveloped my bleeding heart.

Then I discovered Unschooling.

[Captainofbadasssquad]

Because of my label, I was outcast by my peers in school who translated it as "mental retardation", despite my IQ measurement being above average. As a result, I was the subject of ridicule either for being "slow" (which was not true) or working too hard on school work (which wasn't going well anyway).

[Captainofbadasssquad]

The worst part was the pacing, it just would not stop! They threw it all at me way too fast, and deemed me defective for not completing the work on time. So I was "diagnosed" with a learning disorder just because I didn't meet expectations set by a group of people towards an entire generation of diverse individuals.

That's when my social life began to die.

[Captainofbadasssquad]

As I was exposed to a number of subjects, I eventually (by my last year in Jr. High) discovered that I wanted to be a writer. But they wouldn't let me learn, the said I needed to take more courses before I could. So I did, but I cared not about these meaningless subjects; how is the location of an Egyptian burial ground going to help me write a book? Do I have to exhume a dead Pharaoh and ask him to edit my work?

[Captainofbadasssquad]

I wish I found out about unschooling before I graduated; High School was a hellish experience that (as cliche as this sounds) left me a shell of my former self. Before it, everything fascinated me! I wanted to know how this worked, or what made that move; I was surrounded by a treasure of wonders. Then my parents told me about school, needless to say I was excited.

Heh, the foolishness of a child.

[MarieSuzuki1]

Hi, I have 3 girls, 7, 5 and 2 years old. We are unschooling them since the beginning. It is a way to learn by experience of real daily life. My only concern is that we have also more experience and knowledge then them. So we can guide them to their full potential. I know that our public schools are not good for our children. Kids can't decide on big issues like this because they do not have the maturity, all the informations and the long therm view has us. This is unparenting for me...