The lesson every kid learns on day 1 of school, regardless of who is teaching or what is being taught: “I’m forced to do something I don't like for 8 hours every day for the rest of my life.” A consumer-slave is born.
“Unschooling” is the natural way of learning. See John Taylor Gatto, John Holt.
Up until very recently I was an elementary school teacher, now I homeschool. I am beginning to see some very positive affects of unschooling. I have not done any research on it
but I’ve noticed success my own children are having with my casual approach to education. I will check out your above mentions.
Most definitely, they socialize as much as I do since they are with me all the time. They socialize with adults more than children but because of this they have more enriching conversations. From my experience I can assure you, much better than they would ever have with God knows who’s child at school. We have a close family so they have cousins and aunts and uncles they see often. They play with the neighbor when she gets home from private school and always share with me that she had a bad day because of other kids! My daughter has riding lessons, and my son is starting boxing soon. We are not much into organized sports. Most importantly they have each other! They are best friends.
The only constant they have daily is journal and handwriting. My seven year old is doing cursive already. We have curriculum books but we may not get to them daily. I can make a lesson out of anything. Daily activities can turn into fraction lessons, grammar lessons, etc. Because of this their vocabulary is very extensive. With my five year old almost all lessons are geared to his interests which is huge at this age and not always met in the public school setting. My seven year old can do laundry start to finish including folding and putting away. This is something some college kids can’t even do.
From my recent experience in the public setting I can assure you their days are more enriching compared to peers their age. They are not confined to one room, have to raise their hand to speak/use restroom, they play like kids should, they learn at all times, and it’s a beautiful thing!
I could go on and on about the beef I have with the public school setting and why I choose to leave. I had an amazing classroom but let me go on record saying I did nothing by the book and this is why I made the decision of not wanting my children sitting in one of those desks. It really was prison like. I felt sorry for the kids being there for so long and having assigned everything. Not to mention, the amount of behavior problems they would have to witness everyday is not something I would want to include in my child’s socialization.
I would become a teacher if these were the conditions.
My business can run without me and it would be a pleasure.
The lesson every kid learns on day 1 of school, regardless of who is teaching or what is being taught: “I’m forced to do something I don't like for 8 hours every day for the rest of my life.” A consumer-slave is born.
“Unschooling” is the natural way of learning. See John Taylor Gatto, John Holt.
I loved school and got a great education. But that was in the 70's and '80s.
And I've always been a non-conformist and a free thinker. Education was turned into cancer. It is nothing like it was 40 years ago
60s and 70s for me … Loved learning, but would have despised being indoctrinated…
Love learning, acquiring new skills, etc. hated the teachers, my peers, etc.
Those were the days.
I hat3d school amd avoided the indoctrination. I love learning though. I realized I could learn far more on my own and I'm not bored.
Up until very recently I was an elementary school teacher, now I homeschool. I am beginning to see some very positive affects of unschooling. I have not done any research on it but I’ve noticed success my own children are having with my casual approach to education. I will check out your above mentions.
Most definitely, they socialize as much as I do since they are with me all the time. They socialize with adults more than children but because of this they have more enriching conversations. From my experience I can assure you, much better than they would ever have with God knows who’s child at school. We have a close family so they have cousins and aunts and uncles they see often. They play with the neighbor when she gets home from private school and always share with me that she had a bad day because of other kids! My daughter has riding lessons, and my son is starting boxing soon. We are not much into organized sports. Most importantly they have each other! They are best friends.
The only constant they have daily is journal and handwriting. My seven year old is doing cursive already. We have curriculum books but we may not get to them daily. I can make a lesson out of anything. Daily activities can turn into fraction lessons, grammar lessons, etc. Because of this their vocabulary is very extensive. With my five year old almost all lessons are geared to his interests which is huge at this age and not always met in the public school setting. My seven year old can do laundry start to finish including folding and putting away. This is something some college kids can’t even do.
From my recent experience in the public setting I can assure you their days are more enriching compared to peers their age. They are not confined to one room, have to raise their hand to speak/use restroom, they play like kids should, they learn at all times, and it’s a beautiful thing!
I could go on and on about the beef I have with the public school setting and why I choose to leave. I had an amazing classroom but let me go on record saying I did nothing by the book and this is why I made the decision of not wanting my children sitting in one of those desks. It really was prison like. I felt sorry for the kids being there for so long and having assigned everything. Not to mention, the amount of behavior problems they would have to witness everyday is not something I would want to include in my child’s socialization.
Good for you!
Yes! I wouldn't want to trade our lifestyle to play school at somebody's house.
Every teacher I know is retired with medical at 45-50. Boofuckinghoo “muh low pay”
This is very untrue. Teachers have to put in 30 years for a pension in my very blue state.
Idk i used to have a lot of old teachers
Why would you think I was talking about then? Im talking about now.
I wasn’t, its only been like 7
You are quite an . . .