The unschoolers take schooling very seriously. The term is the problem. Anyway, the left wants the money and control so they must pick at the weakest point. I suggest to unschoolers that they change the name and go on doing what they are doing as long as it works.
Yeah. The name must go.
The unschoolers take schooling very seriously. The term is the problem.
Exactly, people hear unschooling and think uneducating. It's the process that is changed not the end result.
It depends on which unschoolers you're talking about. I knew one family who were "unschooling" their children (about ages 5 and 7 at the time), and it was clearly not a good idea. The mother and father both seemed to be suffering from clinical depression (the father eventually went on permanent disability leave from what had been a very good job in banking). Their devotion to "unschooling" seemed to rooted in their own inability to cope with real-world structure, and a desire to spare their children from the misery that they blamed on such structure. Unfortunately, from what I saw of the children's behavior on the few occasions I was around them, the program seemed to be putting them on the road to the same sort of depression and disfunctionality that their parents had.
Perhaps "Child Empowered Schooling" or "Freeschooling" would do the PR trick.
This was not for my kids, although we allow the kids to do some "joy based schooling", their elective courses, where the kids pick a sunject and go with it. But that takes place only after their curriculum work is done.