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For one thing, homeschooling is different than unschooling.

Unschooling focuses on letting the children guild themselves through play and through real life acting as their age and selves permit.

Homeschool is more strict in schedule and you have specified 'units' or things to study and learn (before you actually Need to learn it as unschoolers would possibly say..)

Public schools are always constricting and so punishing if you are creative, rambunctious, eager, etc that it hinders actual learning. It is shoving information down kids throats pretty much and assuming they'll absorb it and learn it... whereas homeschooling would still learn the similar 'subjects' of a public system, only on a more individually led schedule...
Unschoolers would simply not even really bring up subjects and allow the children to do whatever they want for as long as they want, typically being 'play' and learn that way instead.. guiding their own likes and choosing their own path..

etc etc..


I'm not going to go into everything that I believe though... ><

I also wanted to comment on the other posts....
I do believe we are indeed looking upon hard times in the coming months. We'll see what happens, we all still have to have our 'likes' to know there's something to fight for. what is freedom without either..

What about the public schooled children who also don't function well? razz
It all depends on the child and whether they Want to learn or not. Honestly, I think 'school' is a huge waste of time and if parents spent more time with their kids and put more effort (or is it less effort once you get the hang of it?), they would be better guided and see more doors open in life... Sure it's still up to them to be interested and to actually pursue it - but I don't think public schooled children are any better off in that sense (I think they're just out a ton of time where they could be playing and learning more useful things than how to sit still and be quiet and do the work infront of you (don't forget your ritalin now~).

Schools do a lot of information cramming and not enough hands on application or actual learning imho...

As I said though, I think there are benefits of all types of teaching/learning.
I lean towards somewhere between homeschooling and unschooling though..

which part of what is horrible?~

re-teaching? what do you mean by that?
unschooling would be them learning things themselves as they go, as they need to, which happens to be just the right time~ a kid who learns to read at age 8 instead of age 4 is going to be at the same level as an adult anyway.. and who's to say that makes the 4 year old smarter to read sooner. Reading just just an example..
Unschooling is trying to provide the roads and options for the child as they go but allowing them to choose which path to take. Sure some might choose to watch tv all day, but who's to say they will continue to do so forever and be a bump on a log - from the reports I've read, usually they get bored of it and go do other things. And who's to say the public schooled child is going to watch tv or do 'pointless' things any less.. (pointless being in air quotes because really, what is or isn't pointless)..





I could name some undesireable effects of being put through public school too. Not everything works exactly the same for ever child. Some things have to be taught/discovered/learned differently in order to be absorbed properly... Unschooling/homeschooling gives a chance for the parent to change up routines or tactics or whatever have you call it..




did everyone you went to school with graduate highschool?
Did everyone who Did graduate get a job and function 'properly' in society?
Who says what 'functioning properly' is?
Did everyone who Didn't complete highschool NOT get jobs? I know many who have good jobs who didn't graduate.. and I know many who did who Don't have jobs at all. I know many who continued after highschool to go on to college/university, but I know many who didn't.

It should be a *choice* which profession or route a child takes and it shouldn't be frowned upon if they choose something different than what schools offer. Schools don't exactly offer a huge range of subjects or options.. and definitely don't promote 'differing opinions' on answers and whatnot..

I know many people who have went through schooling and still believe life is a joke and all play... I also know quite a few homeschooled families who saved up their own money to go to college, who worked great jobs, who are in university, who have great family and social values... etc etc..

And there are PLENTY of ways to socialize your child without putting them in a classroom for 8 hours a day where they SIT and DON'T socialize razz






I obviously know I don't have all the answers.. or all the questions... buuuuut atleast I give a ******** and am trying to figure things out for my family. ><

I don't see how the school system teaches better values than I would myself.
or that their subject matter is of worth learning.


have you watched any videos or read any books about the public school system? about the curriculum? I don't believe it has the best interests at heart...

I enjoy looking at the different aspects of the different learning styles though... it's nice getting different perspectives too.

Ultimately, it will be my choice which schooling to go with when she gets a few years older... we'll see what happens ;P
Right now, I do enjoy teaching her the alphabet and numbers and whatnot, even if she doesn't 'need' them yet. It's fun and helpful... doesn't follow the unschooling approach though razz


(i didn't go back and spell check or grammar check any of this -it was typed rather quickly so I hope it makes sense!)

That is actually the dumbest ******** idea I had the displeasure of reading