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Originally Posted by st33med  'unschooling' sounds bad.
The fact that people would remove children from schools to learn by themselves sounds great,
but what about math or biology or chemistry? Calculus you cannot learn from nature. |
yeah,
what about math?
- our daughter was still stifled, in the 'dumb-me-down' public school system, where at age 7 in their Gifted (read 'busy-work') program, she was forced to +/- 2-digit numbers, when obviously she was ready for decimals, fractions, %, and beyond. In fact, after their stupidity, we saved her, she fast & easy advanced thru algebra such that she tutored public hi-schoolers.
Yup, an 11 yr.young kid, teaching 15-19 yr olds. "Algebra, beg thru adv." -- Then, she finished Calculus at 15, yes being UNschooled, and
oh yeah,
what about biology?
This same child/student was invited to enter at age 10, the annual local hi-school's Science Fair, where she won just as fast & easy the grand-champion prize, (yes being UNschooled
) with her "Micro-biology" display, correctly spelling & pronouncing & explaining... bio-chemical processes, which public-schooled kids (7 yrs. her senior) remained clueless about.
And it's not 'nature' either.
Understand parental Nurture... 
starts, yes even in the womb, unschooled student's successes...
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Originally Posted by st33med Now, it's not that not going to school makes you stupid
...
But of course, that's just me. |
With all due respect, please get the facts straight, re "unschoolers" - And then, after you have guided additionally several 100 UNschoolers, to similar successes, including graduating, with honors yes, from college yes, at age
17 no less, yes!
- you'll be better prepared to share relevant input...
.