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[Celestein]

REAL journalism would seek several unschooling families, INCLUDING young adults who have grown out of unschooling and research how successful they are in their adult lives. This report only shows 2 families, including one without any structure (which is not the way all unschoolers go about) and basically ridicules and ostracize them without really learning about their lifestyle.

This in not real reporting, it's just knee-jerk, anectodal judgement dished out by some anchorwoman.

[hagakure212]

JuJU didn't interview anyone in these families. She attacked and tried o intimidate and spoke in a very condescending manner to both the parents and the kids.

What I don't understand is why people are in such a tizzy over kids being unschooled!

If you choose to not unschool or home school your kids that is your business.

What gives the population at large the right to protest the act of home schooling or unschooling?

It no body's business but that of those families.

[albertinamel]

@GraceAlone71 I totally get what unschooling is. However, life isn't about always getting to do what you want. I once had the misfortune of having an employee who thought he got to choose every project he worked on and what hours he would work. (He didn't last.) I'm not advocating that every child get military-school discipline, but unschooling seems to cater to the egos of parents who don't want to stifle Jr's creativity, lest they stifle a budding Steve Jobs, which is ridiculous.

[Meatza3000]

Jew Jew Chang has no idea as to what she's talking about. Public schools today are far-left indoctrination centers and leftists like her want to use the compulsory schooling system to indoctrinate kids with their backwards, third-world ideology.

[Meatza3000]

@hartneychevallier Parents chose to give birth or raise children, while children don't get to choose their family. That's the difference b/w the 2.

[GraceAlone71]

This segment is so bias, these reporters are so ignorant as to how real learning begins.

[GraceAlone71]

@albertinamel In unschooling the child gets to explore their own interests at their own pace whether it be in music, art, history or science. They get a chance to learn what it means to read for pleasure, and not have to force themselves to finish a book so they can then write a report on it.

I'm so glad and very thankful that I live in a country that (for the moment) allows the parents to be the parents and choose the educational avenue they feel is best for their kids.

[GraceAlone71]

@albertinamel I'm not from Mass but I'm happy to hear that it has a wonderful PS system for those who choose to put their kids in PS. The thing is not everyone learns the same way and PS isn't for everyone. Not everyone learns best from a curriculum or from someone standing in front of them "teaching". In fact most of the learning that takes place in PS is just long enough to pass a test, and then it's off to something else.

[albertinamel]

@wijse Actually, all of the unschoolers I know are ultra-conservative, religious fanatics who don't trust what they perceive to be the godless, unionized school district. They basically wish they could revert to "Little House on the Prairie" days. So this group of morons comprises more than just a bunch of flower children, though I'm sure they're well repesented, too. Stupidity crosses all party lines and political ideologies.

[albertinamel]

P.S. Bring back the truant officers!

[albertinamel]

These parents are as bad as the ones who won't tell anyone their baby's gender and let it "decide" how it wants to define itself. Also, they're total ingrates who don't appreciate that they live in a state (Mass) w/arguably the best public schools & highest test scores of any of the 50. Unfortunately, plenty of unschoolers masquerade as homeschoolers. By jr high, unless your child is enrolled in accredited distance learning courses, he shouldn't get any credit for his supposed "homeschooling."