#unschooling

#unschooling

When I shared the reasoning behind this decision on Instagram, my DMs exploded with messages from thousands of parents quietly navigating the same issues. Watching their capable, intelligent children crumble and wondering if they're the only ones considering alternatives. Many of them told me they feel like failures for even thinking about stepping outside the system. But we're not failing ― the system is.

The damage caused by "outside school" isn't something that they can simply push through and overcome. This is when homeschooling-and in particular unschooling-can come in. What Is Unschooling? As Brooklyn-based writer and educator Ruben Brosbe writes in U.S. News & World Report, unschooling is "an educational philosophy that relies on a child's innate curiosity and desires to learn. In families that practice unschooling, students do not attend school and do not follow any set homeschool curriculum.''