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fromBuzzFeed
2 days ago

I Let My Neurodivergent 14-Year-Old Leave School. The Change In Her Has Been Extraordinary.

A modern accredited virtual-school pathway prioritized Maya's nervous-system safety and real-world learning, replacing a harmful school environment and restoring her wellbeing and curiosity.
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fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

Neurodivergent Kids Can Thrive in Unschooling

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.''
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