MrsSpringsteen
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I saw some of this story on GMA this morning. The premise is allowing kids to develop their own passions and they will learn naturally from that and educate themselves without any formal education. Radical unschooling extends that to parenting-no rules and basically the kids can do whatever they want. Unschoolers register as home schoolers so that's how it becomes legal even if it isn't, that's my understanding of it from the GMA story.
Like the interviewer asked, isn't that handicapping a child? And like the other woman said, teaching kids that they're the center of the universe. At least that set of parents seems to have a very laid back pie in the sky attitude towards the future (and the present). Of course they avoid the negatives about formal schooling, but at what cost? And I definitely don't see how extending it to parenting would work well. I don't believe in being too strict, but kids can't parent themselves and they shouldn't. Aren't rules and structure (from school and parents) how you eventually develop self discipline? There are other factors in the development of that, but I believe it's key.
The GMA video is here-bottom row
Good Morning America on ABC News - ABC News
article
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/unschooling-homeschooling-book-tests-classes/story?id=10410867
Like the interviewer asked, isn't that handicapping a child? And like the other woman said, teaching kids that they're the center of the universe. At least that set of parents seems to have a very laid back pie in the sky attitude towards the future (and the present). Of course they avoid the negatives about formal schooling, but at what cost? And I definitely don't see how extending it to parenting would work well. I don't believe in being too strict, but kids can't parent themselves and they shouldn't. Aren't rules and structure (from school and parents) how you eventually develop self discipline? There are other factors in the development of that, but I believe it's key.
The GMA video is here-bottom row
Good Morning America on ABC News - ABC News
article
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/unschooling-homeschooling-book-tests-classes/story?id=10410867