Comments on: Deschooling For Parents

By: Michelle Breum

Michelle Breum — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:34:22 +0000

I applaud every parent who homeschools or unschools. You are educating your children and spending quality time with them. I taught public school as an elementary teacher and gave 150 percent, but I couldn’t meet the needs of every child and went home frustrated most days. I continued to teach after my first child was born and then full-time for one year.
I now have three children in public school. I love my children, but if I spent every waking minute with them we’d all be crazy. Volunteering at school and giving them my all when they’re home is my solution to sanity.
My children play, follow rules, deal with a little boredom, show what they know, and learn a few things in school. Most of their learning happens outside of school through our experiences and conversations.
Good for all of you. I guess I’m an unschooler too, but my children go to school/daycare.
Some parents don’t have what it takes to teach their own kids, so thank goodness for schools and teachers who give it their all or the best they can. It’s a tough job.
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By: Vidyut

Vidyut — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:20:15 +0000

I described deschooling to a friend as ‘rehab’ from schooling because that is bad for you, and you have to watch out for relapses of “shoulds”. She laughed out loud.

I look back, and think its one of the most concise descriptions I’ve heard.

By: Arp

Arp — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:03:22 +0000

Great post – deschooling myself was a very big part of our family’s unschooling journey. It was the difference between liking the idea of unschooling vs living it every day. I wish it had happened overnight, but it took months, with a big kick in the pants from reading ‘Parenting a Free Child.’ It’s hard to realize how ingrained lessons become when you are exposed them for 12 years.
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By: Sandra Dodd

Sandra Dodd — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:20:18 +0000

Kids used to ask my daughter Holly, “But what about recess!?” They couldn’t imagine a life without recess. Holly had no need for “recess” from school, as she had no school. It was beyond their faintest comprehension.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:56:00 +0000

Thank you for stopping by. I don’t think you’ll find anyone here that reads this bloghere who “blesses” the public school system for anything. Unschooling means our kids don’t go to school. What’s wrong with playing all day?

By: Jody & Ruth Been

Jody & Ruth Been — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:37:00 +0000

The indoctrination process in American public schools leaves much to be desired, for sure. I was homeschooled for 2 years (the rest in public schools) and I look back on those 2 years as critical to my personal educational growth. However, having taught English for 2 1/2 years in South Korea, I have come to bless the American school system over and over again. At least we try to teach our kids while they’re IN school! In Korea the children spend hours in school playing and then spend the rest of their lives in after-school academies actually learning so they can get ahead.

It is the most twisted approach to education I have ever seen, and it makes me love and appreciate every creative teacher I had in America. Our system, however faulty it may be, is vastly better than most educational systems in the world.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:12:00 +0000

Hi Colleen.

Knowing that deschooling is a process, makes it easier to be kind to ourselves when we take a step backwards.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:57:00 +0000

What a great post Joanne. I’m so glad to know that deschooling is a long process for other people too! It makes me feel much better about the progress I’ve made these past few months. I feel like I’m getting a deeper understanding of what unschooling is, too. In the beginning I guess I thought the learning would still look a certain way but I’ve finally realized I need to give up the notion of learning all together and just focus on living!

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:00 +0000

Hi Tara…yes, I totally feel the same way. I think back to when we first adopted our kids and they were still in school. I still shake my head at some of the things I went along with, just because “that’s how it was”. *shudder*

Thanks for stopping by. I just took a look at your blog and added your feed to my reader.