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On the topic of “unschooling”, I was “unschooled” growing up, and can definitely say from personal experience that it’s not good. In my case, I was homeschooled (for religious reasons), but once there were enough kids (also for religious reasons) that it took more effort than my parents were willing to put into it, they decided that they were going to start “unschooling” us. In practice that basically just meant that any attempt at education stopped from that point on. I was lucky, the only problem I came out of it with (specifically education-wise) was having to take some remedial math classes in college. My younger siblings had it worse, some of them didn’t even learn how to read until they were like 8-9, and a couple are still years behind where they should be.
Hey I was also “Unschooled”! Thankfully my parents weren’t religious, and I was aware enough of the consequences if I didn’t keep up with the right schooling level so I did online classes. But it was basically up to me to make that all happen, and by sophomore year of high school I was so depressed I begged them to let me join public school, which was the best decision I’ve ever made.
I came out pretty okay education wise, although my writing skills are definitely lacking. The biggest problem for me was the lack of social interaction. Being forced to be around large numbers of your peers every day is really fucking important.
