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December 5, 2006, 8:46 am PST
11/24 Great School Debate
Quote From: tlc2225Can the 10 yr old read and write or are you saying he's been "unschooled"?
Are you saying unschoolers are typically unable to read at write at 10 years? Even though I've been watching this board the past week I honestly don't know much at all about the whole unschool process. I'm sure I could go back through the 3,000 posts and find some great info but.....;-) Well....
A brief recap about what unschooling is for us, and what it isn't. It isn't "unparenting or neglect", it IS nurturing and guiding your children through developmentally appropriate stages in their learning. Our children know how to read, including our younger two, who have never attended public school, because they wanted to know how to read, just like I do... (they've also been read to since they were in the womb ;))
The original poster's (The concerned grandparent whose children were living in a truck and had to be put in foster homes) concern to me didn't really seem to have much to do with appropriate school method, (IMO). From the sounds of things, his/her grandchildren could have been taking dance lessons from Fred and Ginger themselves and wouldn't have succeeded given their poor home life and unsettlement and having nobody to count on.
Once the kids have some stability and solid ground to walk on, they can be public schooled, homeschooled, private schooled, unschooled, taught by tapdancing monkeys or whatever as long as they're in a situation they can thrive in!
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