This Education Week article on unschooling and this Teacher Magazine article, Don’t Call It School are both really good. You'll have to register to read the Education Week one, and maybe the Teacher Magazine one also. The first one is a very descriptive and positive article on unschooling and include a 15 minute audio interview with an unschooling mom. The second one is about North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens, a center in Massachusetts.
Stories like these help me resist the curriculum and structure urges that I get sometimes.
At bed tonight, DS1 explained to me that he wasn't going to tell me what he got me for Christmas because it's a secret and he's keeping it. He also explained to his cousin today that an x-ray lets you see pictures of your bones. DS2 was playing with a puzzle yesterday that had 9 pieces and he said "3 threes is 9". Who needs "school?"
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