Mom Is Teaching

Yes, once again I’m taking the lazy way out.  It’s just that I keep finding this great stuff and naturally I know you guys would rather read something wonderful from someone else than read about my every day terrors. 

Before I get started though, I’m going to issue a confession even though I said I wasn’t going to discuss this here.  This is just the best forum for the information.

Walker went back to school on Tuesday and on Tuesday afternoon his folder was not in his backpack and the teacher nodded in agreement when Walker said, "we didn’t get our folders today but I still got a purple bee" as he was getting inside the car.  So, I look in his backpack anyway.  Lo and behold is a ziplock bag with homework in it.  ARGH!

The boys played, had dinner, did baths and while the youngest was in the tub, Walker and my husband sat down to do the homework assignment.  An assignment featuring words like did, dad, look, see.  Now, I don’t know what’s relevant in other places for this age kid but my son is reading Thomas the Train books, this did, dad, look, see stuff is starting to become annoying. 

Well, last night, I completely forgot that he even had work in his backpack.  His folder made it home with the assignment ziploc bag but there was no pages indicating his behavior.  I’m not too concerned about that anyway any more as he has made vast improvements in that area.  But, this other stuff is starting to annoy me. 

He also had a piece of paper in his bag where he had written to 100 and a note saying he was one of only a handful that was able to complete this project.  Ok, wonderful, when he can count to 100 by 5’s and 10’s already and can count by 2’s and do some multiplication…I’m just not impressed.

Anyway, I’m being a pain it the arse again but here is the link and a tad of information about the article Unschooling - Brilliant or Lazy by Carrie at Divine Caroline.

She attempts to define unschooling and we all know from my attempt at that here, it is difficult at bet.  Basically she says that the commonality between unschoolers is that they trust children.  They believe the children can lead their own education.  They look a themselves as facilitators, not taskmakers.

So, yea is that starting to sound familiar?  I mean, I tried to do this way back when, but she really does a much better job…give it a read

So, following up with what I posted before regarding unschooling.  I want to make sure I present you with as many details as I can find.  Here are a few of the criticisms that I found of unschooling (and my comments).  Some of those include:

• That many children lack the foresight to learn the things they need to know as adults.  (That’s why the educator has to be a facilitator or coach, no just leave the children to run willy nilly)
• Gaps may appear in a child’s education unless a professional controls the material that is covered. (Again, if the educator is there in place, facilitating is done, regardless of how.)
• Schools tend to have a ready-made source of peers and children who do not go to conventional schools may not make friends and develop social skills as well as their peers.  (This is a major concern for me since Walker is such a social kid in the first place.  I know that most homeschoolers have a network with which they share educational experiences and the children have plenty of time to interact.  This is one place where my concern remains though as my son thrives in situations where many people are involved and public school has by all means afforded him that.  And, public school peers with no parents veering over their shoulder have an opportunity to present themselves in a way that isn’t dictated by a parent or authority figure all the time, thus my child as more of an opportunity to learn from his peers.  I know that learning from “peers” is one of the major downfalls as well, and that’s where it is the family lives that can help predict the pro’s and con’s of what a child might learn and in effect still guide their own child.)
• Schools offer a diverse group of adults and students making it easier to expose the children to different cultures, socio-economic groups and worldviews. (Again, where I live, even in the public school, this is a fairly controlled situation for the majority of the situations.  Most people would be surprised to learn that I attended an all white school my entire 12 years of school.  And, the schools that I attended are still exactly that, all white.  Therefore the multi-cultural influence was basically non-existent for me, important?  Yes, it should be, but it simply wasn’t and still isn’t happening where we live.)
• Children are not motivated to learn anything and will spend all of their time in un-educational endeavors if not coerced into doing otherwise. (This is precisely what we were discussing yesterday, children are begging to learn, they are always seeking knowledge of some kind.)
• Not all parents are able to provide a stimulating environment or have the skills and patience required to encourage the student’s curiosity. (And, all public school teachers do? I am living proof that this is the case, I graduated and taught but I simply didn’t have what it took, yet I managed to get there.  I was just fortunate enough to have the support system to bail out of it where some teachers don’t and continue to teach in systems everywhere and no one every tells them, “hey, you don’t have what it takes, you aren’t doing a very good job and you  need to move on.” Once a teacher gets tenure, you can basically forget it, no matter how good or how bad, they are going to continue to teach.)
• The lack of accreditation and diploma’s may make it difficult for a child to get into college or get a job. (I don’t think this is as big of an issue as it once was with all the programs out there available to the parents/students of homeschooled or unschooled.)
• Children who direct their own educations may not ever learn to take direction from others. (I do have to admit that this one concerns me as well.  The reason being that so many children will balk at authority figures even when they are accustom to having someone give direction daily, it can only be worse if a child is left to only take direction from their parents.  Wait, that’s just my personal opinion on that last one.)

So, as you can see, I’m fairly easily swayed from one way to another depending on the issues at hand.  And basically, the only thing that proves is that no one system is better than the other, they all have their pro’s just as they all their con’s. 

The best we can hope for is that parents and educators are able to read the mind’s and personalities of the children around them and help make good decisions for them.

Who knew mind reading was such a big part of education?

I’m not sure what I thought this type of education would encompass so I went in search of a definition.  Here’s what I found and basically it is from Wikipedia and states that the term was coined by John Holt in the 1970’s and he is also widely known as the “father” of unschooling. 

Here is the definition that they gave:

“unschoolers believe that the use of standard curricula and conventional grading methods, as well as other features of traditional schooling, are counterproductive to the goal of maximizing the education of each child”

I wondered if there were visitors coming by here who also read the word unschooling and then wondered to themselves exactly what it was.  Basically, I formed my own idea about what unschooling referred to before looking for a definition. 

I did this for two reasons, one because I’m stubborn and I was gonna learn the definition by the context of the sentences it was used in (well, that’s what they taught me to do in public school :)) Secondly, I wanted to form my own opinion before having one pushed on me.

And, that is exactly what unschooling is my friend.  It is basically moving from that structure that says you must learn this way or that way, you can learn the way you learn.  Parents or educators in general who unschool are typically known for allowing children to learn through life experiences, including game play, household responsibilities and social interaction.

Here are a few thoughts that Wikipedia (not normally my source of information but in my opinion, they did a doggone good job with this one):

Children are Natural Learners

I agree with this very much.  I was educated in the traditional manner.  But, it has been my experience that children want to learn.  They may push and tug with it when it is forced upon them but in their own way.  My five-year-old is just begging to be taught anything and he remembers almost everything that comes his way and seems out of the ordinary.  For instance, yes he is learning to read, he knows how to spell this word and that word, but he was more amused by his lessons on fresh water fish and salt water fish.  He gave me a lesson as a matter of fact, on crabs to be exact. 

So, does this make me an unschooler if I do believe children are begging to learn and are begging to learn what they are interested in most…even if, for now, I’m still enjoying the fact that someone else is teaching him (he is exhausting with the questions, which is one reason why I’m not sure I’m ready - he is going to require a lot of time and energy to educate - do I have it in me)?

Children do not all learn the same way

Hummmmmmmmm, of course not, who ever thought they did?  Well, according to the unschooling philosophy, the traditional public school way is to assume that everyone is learning at the same rate, in the same manner and even want to learn the same things at the same time.  This seems like a no-brainier to me.  Does that make me an unschooler?

Developmental Differences

Just as they learn to walk and talk and heaven help us even if they don’t learn to use the potty until they are over 3.75 years of age (hello young son, please?), it should be fairly obvious to folks that children are going to learn almost everything differently, just as they do their developmental milestones like eating with a fork or drinking from a regular cup instead of a sippy cup.

Does that make me an unschooler?

The Role of Parents

I don’t think I’ve been even a little bit vague in my ideas of how important the parental unit plays to the education of a child.  It is important.  Period.  No negotiating.  I don’t think this one would be argued by anyone - unschoolers or traditional educators.

Criticism of Traditional School

I think that the following quote by John Holt is about how I felt as a student:

“the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don’t know”

I was anxious, I depended on that number or letter grade to evaluate my abilities.  I need to know if I had succeeded or failed.  And, I know without a doubt, I learned less trying to cram in a bunch of temporary stuff than I would have if I had just made a better effort to apply what I did learn to some facet of my life…even my childhood or teenager life.

Does this make me an unschooler?

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If it sounds like I’m trying to convince you that I am a fan of unschooling, it is because I am.  But, one of the things I would like to see happen is to see this be possible in a setting outside the home.  I know expecting it to happen in public schools seems like a lot, but it can be done. 

If you are now shaking your head and thinking, “nope, she didn’t get it”, hear me out.  I owned a daycare and it is so easy to allow unschooling to happen in that setting, so why is it that at the magic age of 5, our children are then sent to public school where the unschooling stops and this stuff known as traditional education takes over?

There’s nothing magic about carrying out unschooling in a pre-school setting and there shouldn’t be anything magic about doing it as kids continue to grow and learn. 

I’m sure there is a point where if a child is in a public school, the more traditional method of educating would have to take over (even though homeschoolers tend to unschool for much longer) but it doesn’t have to start at a magic age of 5 and just because a kid is 5 doesn’t make him a candidate for the traditional methods.

Now, does that make me an unschooler?

So, in case you got lost in all the mumbo jumbo from waaaay back when I first started reading The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish (which was sometime around…oh September 3rd), the approach I chose was to read the first half of the book Fried Brains and Frayed Tempers, and comment here on different parts of the book that I found interesting or that I had something I thought might add to the thoughts already out there. 

At the time, I was going to get those posts written fairly quickly and then I was going to read the second half of the book, Ending Homework Hell.  And, of course, I will have much to say there as well.  But, I got sidetracked because I was also reading 2 other books and trying to maintain seven or is it eight blogs.

Anyway, as I sit in my living room listening to the sounds around me, one kid snoring in one direction, an adult snoring in the other and crickets going crazy outside along with an occasional hot rod headed in one direction or another, I try to concentrate.  I’m ready to get moving, just so far behind from this week’s lack of work on my part.

The Mono thing coupled with a change in anti-depressant kept me down all week.  I slept approximately 18 to 20 hours a day 3 days about 15 the other days since Sunday.  I am better today but tomorrow brings a lot of work as we try to finish our deck.  We are planning to finish laminating the living area floor (we only did half of it way back when, long story) but we are going to pain the room first.  So, anyway, it won’t be long before I’m ready to read the second half and then….

then….I’m going to be seeking advice on how to make my moves and to make them in the right direction.  Bear with me here, it’s been a long sickly summer and I’m ready to make strides toward somewhere else.

Keep reading, it’s coming…..

I’m not going to pretend that I have any clue what-so-ever how a homeschooling parent would teach that previous lesson.  But, I suspect that the method I mentioned might work really great in that matter.  If I were thrown into homeschooling tomorrow, that’s what I would do.  I would go through the map with the child, discussing a little about each state that we might already know or that we can look up and learn.  That way, the child has a better idea of what a state represents other than just a spot on a map.

And, the parent could help the child go through the labeling process with the student reminding them of the small pieces of information that he/she had just learned about each state.  I see this as beneficial because let’s suppose your child lives in Gainesville Florida.  You are homeschooling and you are to this unit.  You 8- year-old has been begging to go snow skiing.  But when you try to explain to him/her that you can’t actually go snow skiing where you live and it is quite a long way to travel in order to do so. 

As you were labeling your map, you could show your child where grandma and grampa live in Nashville Tennessee and also remind them how long it took the last time you drove to see them.  Remind them of the various bathroom stops and the number of miles traveled, etc.  Then, you could jump to Colorado and show them that in order to snow ski they would need to visit a place such as Denver Colorado.  Look what your child has learned and learned the location of:  state of Florida and capital, state of Tennessee and capital and state of Colorado and capital.  The student is so much more likely to remember this because it relates to something the child is already interested in. 

In a classroom setting the teacher could do this as well, the problem being the number of students and the ability to know their students and their likes and dislikes.

In that example, I would be able to teach my child many states and capitals just be using the knowledge they already have and adding to it.  The knowledge is so much more likely to be retained. 

Fast forward 20 years and this young adult still hasn’t been snow skiing but he has won a free airline round trip to anywhere.  He/she knows exactly where he/she wants to go:  Denver Colorado.  And, because you had the opportunity to teach seasons and such, he/she can plan their trip accordingly since he/she learned at a very young age that driving from his/her home in Gainesville Florida to Denver Colorado would probably ruin his trip.

Lesson learned.  No homework.  Child can then be left with blank maps to work through and a labeled map to check his progress.  Learning so much more than simply regurgitating knowledge back onto a piece of paper. 

Discuss.

So, what am I talking about?  I’m just going to put it down as a fact, teachers should NEVER send new concepts home as homework.

That’s as forthright as I can be.  Straight forward, to the point.  I have many reasons why this is a bad idea other than simply sending homework home in the first place is pointless.  I know that it didn’t take much to convince me of that but some folks are a little harder to convince.

So, with my weapons in my back pocket, I’m going to throw this one out there at you.  This one revolves around reason # 343156243.  What is that, you ask?  This is the homework that goes home that the child has to read and/or figure out for themselves.  And, in my opinion the place they should turn is to their parents.  But, if the homework is so difficult that the child can’t do it, many times the parents won’t be able to do it either.  And, that’s assuming the parents would help if they could and have time to sit down with 5 children and teach them all their lessons for the day.

Imagine this for a minute, you have four children, we will stick with four since it is more likely, you’ve worked your own 8 hour shift with an hour drive time each way.  You’ve cooked dinner, washed dishes, picked all the kids up from their various activities or sitters and now, now you get to teach the oldest child a little algebra, the middle one needs to draw a map of the United States and label it, the next to the youngest is trying to get some help reading his new book that has words in it that he has yet to learn and he needs you to help sound them out and the baby, the baby just needs a bath, some attention and put to bed.  Now, you quit school in the eight grade, so the algebra is out, you do not have any resources at home to find a picture of the U.S. and your child didn’t bring his/her book home and the one learning to read…well you don’t know anything about “sounding out words”, you barely remember learning to read yourself.

Oh and hey, one more thing, everyone needs a bath, including yourself, someone needs a clean ball uniform for the next day and your spouse?  Oh, yea, your spouse, what about him/her?

That’s not a very pretty picture is it.  Unfortunately it happens every day.  Except most of the time, a family in this situation really hasn’t concerned themselves with whether the kid learns the algebra or not as well as the U.S. maps.  Finally, with all this other stuff, surely the kid could learn to read at school, right?  Wait, that’s an excellent idea, wouldn’t you say?  Learning these skills at school?

So, as I look out there, the homeschooling parents are nodding their heads thinking, what a nightmare and the ones of you are in this situation are thinking, “what’s she been doing peeping in our window’s at night”.  Honestly, new concepts simply shouldn’t be taught by anyone but the teacher, homeschool or public, the child should know where to turn, a public school teacher, a parent teacher or an online teacher.

While we were traveling last week, I managed to read a couple of books and post about them in great detail.  I’m not finished, just adding some other things to the mix as the day by day activities arrive. 

On Saturday or Sunday, I received an email from Tom Hanson who is an editor of Open Education.  He had read some posts from this site and read many of the posts and comments regarding homeschooling.  He sent me a link to the site where the discussion seems to be regarding Sugata Mitra and Minimally Invasive Education - Confirmation for Homeschool and UnSchooling Proponents. 

I took a few minutes to read the information at the above link.  And, I have to tell you, if you have a minute, it is definitely a good read.  I love research but normally I find that the manner of the writing afterwards is so technical and difficult to read that I abandon it. 

But, this article is written in very easy jargon and I could easily see the point of Professor Sugata Mitra’s research with the hole in the wall project.

“According to Mitra, without any instruction, these underprivileged children were able to achieve a fundamental level of computer literacy. In his follow up work, Mitra determined that the children, ages 5-16, had little if any prior formal schooling and could not speak English.

Mitra’s “Hole in the Wall” experiment revealed that even without the direct input of a teacher, if there is an environment that stimulates curiosity, then it is possible for children to self-instruct and share pertinent knowledge. Because of its fundamental structure, Mitra dubbed the entire process “minimally invasive education.”

I think this is the premises behind what the homeschooling parents have been trying to make me understand since I took over this blog.  It is amazing, I see it happening with my own eyes.  I just know that unless something radical happens (and my next post about public schools not homework is one step toward radical), I don’t feel I am cut-out for homeschooling.  And, as I’ve said many times, I will do what is best for my child and if it were to come down to me needing to homeschool in order for him to succeed, then I would definitely try it.  But, for the most part, I’ll stick with the public schools for now.

But, this article, this article is extremely thought provoking and every parent, teacher, administrator, etc needs to see just how important their role is in teaching our children.

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Did anyone else read this interesting article about unschoolers? It is a great article that touches on what unschooling is and what their day really is like. For anyone not certain about unschooling it is going on my list of suggestions to look at. There is a quote from a Dr. Ron Glass, an associate professor in UCSC’s education department, on education in general that I loved:

“The notion that learning should somehow follow human nature has been around since the time of Rousseau,” Glass said. But the schooling we’re all now familiar with, he explained, is relatively new.

“The school system that we have now was invented in the late 19th century and had very explicit models: factories, railroads and the army,” Glass said. “So they took features from each of those areas and created a school system. The school was designed to basically rank and sort people into the economic, social, ideological order.”

But the 21st century is a very different time than the Industrial Revolution, with few remaining factories.

The whole article is a good read, even for those who do not follow unschooling with their children. As unschooling becomes more and more popular it is also being seen as less “weird” and unusual. Many homeschooling families are even embracing it along with their planned curriculum, creating a loose blend of structured and unstructed learning.

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A friend of mine has made the choice to homeschool her sons and plans on pulling them out over winter break. I wonder how many other families decide this is the time to take action and homeschool? We often focus on the families preparing over the summer months, but there are many who sit through that first semester of school and say “no more”. It must be a mixture of fear and relief that first day back, when the neighborhood kids are packing on the bus outside and you are staring out the window hoping no one notices that your kids aren’t in line.

April of Lunablog must have been thinking the same thing when she decided to open up her free homeschool curriculum. The first year of lesson plans will become available on New Year’s day.

Some families probably think it is illegal. I know my friend feared that she had to complete the year before she could pull her sons out. Luckily here in Oklahoma the laws are very relaxed and it’s not a problem at all. Legally at least. It’s probably best to check the state laws first though, as some states may require you to jump through hoops before pulling your children out of school.

I also can’t stress enough that when pulling kids from the tightly structured school day to a looser homeschool day to give your kids time to unwind. Deschooling is letting them get it out of their system, to unlearn that learning is a chore to be avoided but instead a treat to be enjoyed. Don’t worry that they’re not doing much during that time, there is more than enough real world education they can get as they unwind. If that seems too unnerving for you maybe you need some Deschooling For Parents too.

And just a short note: unschooling does not mean unparenting. I know that most people can tell the difference, but there are always a few who don’t get it. If you read the comments there you’ll see a great discussion on how the two differ.

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I was reading over at Liberated Learning and found a great article on unschooling in the Tulsa Kids Magazine. unschooling is one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented forms of homeschooling. At least in my experience. Few people understand the theories behind it, and even fewer ar willing to look at it with an open mind. So being a native Okie myself I was pretty proud that an Oklahoma magazine would publish this great article. The first paragraph makes it clear what unschooling can achieve.

For a kid who never went to school, Matt Moyer is doing pretty well. Matt is currently a junior at the University of Tulsa on a full academic scholarship (a result of earning a 33 on the ACT) and has already received an offer from TU for a scholarship to complete his master’s degree. His future plans include moving to Washington D.C. so he can pursue a career in computer security with an intelligence agency. “I’ll also finish a Ph.D. in computer science somewhere down the line,” says Matt.

You may think that this is a fluke, the rare child that does well with unschooling. However, as more and more parents try it they are seeing that their kids are succeeding. It isn’t about letting your kids run free without direction as many assume, it is about letting their passions guide the way and helping them to learn to listen to themselves. I would really recommend reading the article Un-School Days in the Tulsa Kids Magazine for anyone interested in learning more. You can really get a view of how it works in some families.

And I passed the article along to Candy Hollowell who writes the Tulsa OK blog. She’s got a post up about it and about her own desires to homeschool. I hope everyone heads over there and gives her some encouragement.

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Tammy from Just Enough, Nothing More recently posted asking about a film that she had not yet previewd. That film is SCHOOLED.

I have to tell you, after watching the trailor for it myself I’m very excited to watch the film. The basic plot is a high school teacher who is burnt out. He goes to visit an old friend to try and get his groove back, but in a twist this old friend is teaching at an alternative school where the kids are in charge of their own education. A place compeltely opposite from what he is used to.

“Whats the school like?”
“You’d hate it.”
“Why?”
“‘Cause the kids have fun all day.”
“It’s not a school.”

The alternative school in the movie is based on the very real and vry successful Sudbury Vally School in Framingham, Massachusetts. A school where the students all mingle together, there are no classes, no curriculum, no seperating the students by age. (more…)

An article i wrote on unschooling, Unschooling: What is it and is it Right for You?, has suddenly picked back up. I’m not sure what the sudden boost in popularity is from, but it has been interesting nonetheless. With popularity, of course, comes the comments. For the most part the commenters have been very polite, even the ones who disagree with unschooling as a practise or who feel it will not work for them. However, I did have to delete one particular comment. His hateful speech declaring unschooling as child abuse and his veiled threats of contacting child protective services was too much for me to grin and bear. As someone who have known families affected by CPS, even a false claim must be investigated with a fine tooth comb leaving loving parents without access to their scared and confused children for days/weeks/months. It is not a claim I take lightly.

I have to wonder what could possibly make a person fear an educational choice to such an extent that they would prefer ripping a family apart? While some opposed to homeschooling claim that is can be used as a cover for abuse, the fact is that even children in the public school system can be abused at home and still overlooked. Clearly being under the watchful eye of the public schools does not prevent child abuse. But homeschooling is not abuse. And unschooling, no matter how you feel about it, is far from abuse. It isn’t a new attack for unschoolers. Dana from Principled Discovery beautifully took apart a letter that made a similar claim.

Outraged? About what? Who has greater cause to be outraged? The person who notices that someone has a different philosophy of education than they? Or the parents who are being accused of child abuse for having a six and seven year old who cannot read? This is not about denying a child an education. It is about differing views on what it means to be educated and how to best become educated.

I thought I would share a video from the unschooling YouTube guru.

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I’m pretty excited to see that the Unschooling Unmanual will be out soon. I’m a huge fan of Jan Hunt so I am thrilled to read this book that she was a part of. This book, part story of an unschooling family and part explination of what unschooling is, already looks to be a promising read even for those not interested in unschooling. You can check out chapter one online here and see for yourself.

Unschooling is more than an education - it’s life.

They are estimating being able to ship the books out on September 30th. Until then preorders are not only available, they are at a reduced price. You can get a 20% pre-order discount right now. My heart is litterally aflutter.

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I’ve seen some people, homeschoolers included, who make the mistake of thinking the summer months mean freedom from everything. Including education. Comments like “We’re not learning anything new right now, we’re on vacation.” and “We’ve stopped teaching for a while to let the kids take a break” seem to assume that learning only happens during scheduled times.

The fact is though that humans are constant learners, and children are the experts of this. Every day they are actively learning something new without curriculum, books, or lesson plans. They learn at what angle to hold the garden hose to make a rainbow appear in the water, how many lawns they need to mow to get that new bike, and how to finally dive into the city pool head first. They will even learn things we don’t want them to learn, which can then give us a lesson as we try to explain why they shouldn’t repeat what Eddie down the street said.

While many kids are taking a break from the formal lessons over the summer months that does not mean that their learning has taken a break too. Kids are not passive creatures by nature. They are born scientists and are constantly seeking out how and why. It might not always be something we deem important, or even something we approve of, but they are always learning something new. So don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking that because the books and lesson plans are put away for a while that their education is on vacation as well. Take some time to watch your children as they play and you might be suprised at what they are learning.

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
~Eartha Kitt

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OK folks, help me out here. I’m sure that I’ missing something, but what could it be?

Enki Education
Waldorf (And a part 2 here)
Unschooling
Montessori
Classical
Charlotte Mason
Unit Studies
Eclectic
Literature Based
Principled Approach
Homeschooling Online

So what do you think? What special method am I missing? Once I’ve covered all the specific methods I’ll go over the various curriculums out there.

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