Further, unschooling is an option for families, not a mandate. You can try it and adapt it as you see fit; your kids can move in and out of school as necessary; you can do it for any amount of time. It is NOT school, which is why it is a true option for children who hate school, or don’t fit in, or find class too boring, or find class too challenging. I wish the experts had considered these issues instead of finding fault with unschooling because it does not follow conventional school techniques; that is the point, after all. As noted earlier, people often come to unschooling because their children were not flourishing in school, or because even though they did well in school (as the adult Bentley’s say they did in their segment) they want an education that is more involving for their children than marching through the steps of standardized curricula.
I just pulled this out of a longer post Mr. Farenga did in response to a six minute TV interview with an unschooling family. You can read the rest of the post here, along with the very interesting comments.
NB: For some reason I can't seem to link directly to the article that contains the above quote. So once you get to Pat Farenga's blog, please scroll down to the title: Unschooling Formatted for TV.
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