I don’t always agree with Atlas Educational’s ideas about teaching, but this post needs some more attention. I DEMAND YOU READ IT.
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The blog of Luther M. Siler, teacher, author and local curmudgeon
I will be reading it in a minute, I promise.
I know people who are ‘unschoolers’ and that just confuses me.
Thanks for the reblog, Infinitefreetime! I’m happy to co-exist peacefully. Teachers tend to support each other even when we don’t always agree. Dragonflylady77, unschooling confused me for a really long time too! Happy to chat with you about it anytime. It’s not what you’re thinking and I’m glad you’re curious enough to be confused.
Ugh, I have so many feelings about this. But I suspect it’s a totally different story (or at least my feelings are different about) k-8 vs high school. I was home schooled for a minute in elementary, knew kids who were in and out, and have a lot of friends from high school who are home schooling, or are now elem/mid teachers or counselors. But I also worked in college admissions for years, so I get caught up in the disasters I saw in high school home schooling. I can get behind these arguments for elementary and/or middle but less so beyond that.
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