It's all a bit weird because I come from democratic schooling, which dates back to the 1850s and of whom Summerville and Sudbury Valley are the best known examples. Unschooling means for us the process of letting go of external motivations and finding your internal motivation for learning. The question of how diverse or how structured the environment to provide for self directed learning should be has always been a point of contention, but my personal experience is that you need a community of at least about 50-200 people. The fact that people are calling depriving your children of any input other than some bible stories unschooling is just hideous and in the long term causes forced schooling to become even less scrutinized. Children will absolutely learn without authoritarian rule, but you have to provide them with a community. Many anarchist parents I have known still send their kids to forced schooling institutions, negating their own principles. Unschooling should be reclaimed instead of ridiculed.
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Having looked at the comments section of the video, I worry that many of the people who watch the video did not get the same message that you did, and were satisfied with more statist models of education. From my experience state school destroyed my life before I was even 10 years old, specifically leaving me with trauma related to being an autistic and transgender child which has defined the entire rest of my life. I would have hoped that some of the people in the comments section would be more understanding of the circumstances of people like myself but it feels like they never even imagined people like me existed. I have a much more positive experience with radical unschooling, and I know that so much of my life and my politics would be much poorer without it. I'm just so frustrated to be invisible again as I was in school.
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I saw one of these moms flexing her 6 year old could "write" (very very badly) like 4 words...bro at that age i already read, i was learning how to write much more than that, the kid didnt even know how to write his name...this is just wanting for people to be completly illiterate.
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Andrewism
For another thoughtful perspective on the recent trend, see@AliceCappelle👇🏽
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