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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago
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At nine, I disappeared into home schooling. No one came looking

A mother practices intensive unschooling and infantilization, isolating her daughter, enforcing baby-like behaviors, and avoiding state oversight.
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago
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The "Unschooling" Movement Is Going Viral, And People Who Lived It Have Some Thoughts

Unschooling emphasizes child-led, self-directed learning instead of formal curricula, potentially fostering intrinsic motivation but risking gaps without parental balance and structure.
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fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

Neurodivergent Kids Can Thrive in Unschooling

The damage caused by "outside school" isn't something that they can simply push through and overcome. This is when homeschooling-and in particular unschooling-can come in. What Is Unschooling? As Brooklyn-based writer and educator Ruben Brosbe writes in U.S. News & World Report, unschooling is "an educational philosophy that relies on a child's innate curiosity and desires to learn. In families that practice unschooling, students do not attend school and do not follow any set homeschool curriculum.''
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