Reschooling Posts from February 20-26, 2022
When I Was 11 a Tall Man with a Moustache Infected Me
February 26, 2022 from Notes on Adventure
“What’s on your goal list, Blake?” The mustachioed man sat to my right, heading a table filled with prepubescent boys, towering over us as we slurped spoonfuls of rice krispies. Reconstituted milk dribbled down my chin as I stuttered an answer to his unexpected question. “My goal list? Um, I don’t know.” It was my second day of summer camp, and I’d been assigned to the breakfast table of the camp’s founder and director, Jim Wiltens.
School Revolt - Budding Roses Summer Camp: A Story of Applied Anarchist Pedagogy
February 25, 2022 from Anarchist Pedagogies Network
Budding Roses Summer Camp was founded as a project of Black Rose Anarchist Federation in 2016 by a collective of educators and artists with the goal of providing radical engagement opportunities to youth in East Portland. In this webinar we will tell the story of an anarchist summer camp, including the challenges, revelations, and goals for the future. Most importantly, we will share art, ideas, and workshops created by the radical youth thinkers from Budding Roses.
Exploring Unschooling Q&A, Episode 318
February 24, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
Anna Brown and Erika Ellis join me again this week to dive into listener questions! And, as always, our Q&A conversations aren’t focused on giving anyone the “right” answer, because there isn’t a universal “right” answer for any given situation that will work for everyone. Instead, our focus is on exploring different aspects of the situation and playing with the kinds of questions we might ask ourselves to better understand what’s up. We’re sharing food for thought through the lens of unschooling.
School Revolt - What Is Consent? (A Conversation with Sidney Morris)
February 24, 2022 from Anarchist Pedagogies Network
In this workshop we tried to plumb the depths of what it means to agree, or not, to participating in the experiences of your life. The notion of consent is related to agreement, permission, trust, autonomy, self-determination and self-direction on the one hand, with coercion, compulsion, control, pressure, violation, abuse, authority, and hierarchy presenting some of the challenges to consent.
Hygge for Unschoolers
February 23, 2022 from Unschooling Mom2Mom
February here in the northern hemisphere can be tough. Kids are getting antsy and so are parents! Yes, I have a lot of ideas collected for fun things to do in the house - but what about settling in and embracing the coziness that can come with February? Just when we thought things were warming up here in central Texas, the temperatures dropped and we're reminded that Punxsutawney Phil - the Official Groundhog and weatherman - saw his shadow and predicted 6 more weeks of winter!
Neurodiversity & Home Education | Autism | ADHD | Unschooling | Homeschooling UK
February 21, 2022 from Home Grown Education
In today's video I share with you aspects of our home education that help us as a neuro-diverse family.
Do Government-Run Parenting Classes Really Await Free-Range Parents?
February 21, 2022 from Free Range Kids
In the dystopian (and un-put-downable) novel, “The School for Good Mothers,” parents who don’t helicopter get sent to a state re-education school. There, each interaction they have with their child is graded to see if it is kind enough, warm enough, educational enough, safe enough (obviously!) and selfless enough.
Grind Culture and Multi-generational Support
February 20, 2022 from Swimming Upstream
I had that conversation with my father a few weeks ago – the one that all unschooling parents have practiced. “Will he… be able to…?” “Attend post secondary education?”, I filled in for him as he tried to find the right words. I assured him that, yes, unschoolers have a lot of options for post secondary and he still has the option to get a diploma even if he doesn’t go to high school.