What are the main fears of unschooling parents?
Here we can see results of the opinion poll among subscribers to the unschooling coacher's page
The question was - What is your main fear for switching to unschooling?
As we can see the main reply was the 1st one - A child won't have a desire to study, and I won't be able to make him do it
The rest reasons are:
I don't wanna be a teacher and lose all my free time
What if he can't get good marks during attestation...What a shameful come back to school
Unschooling is very expensive
CPS is my main fear
A child will be a sociopath
My relatives and society won't support unschooling
But still despite all fears there are more and more parents who choose unschooling every year.
Why do they do it?
They give different rerasons, and here are some of them:
There is no point in wasting time at school, and then also money on tutors. Better to pay rdirectly for the result.
At school there is low level of culture: children in the first grade begin to use bad lexis, do not respect teachers, do not understand why they came to school.
Kids at school depend from the opinion of the majority. Unschooling is different outlook!
A boring program. System: to get the mark and forget the information you've learned. Unschooling gives deep knowledge.
At school, the child's cognitive activity and initiative are destroyed. He becomes a follower, learns to act only according to the rules. At home, children return to their normal state - constant curiosity, desire to experiment, discuss and argue. The school cannot give it.
School is a part of the system that oppresses parents with antivaccination position. It's better to choose health than classical education at schools.
School is curriculum that is imperfect and sometimes stupid. Unschooling gives freedom and independency. It teaches a child to be responsible in planning his time and evaluating his possibilities.
Constant insults, shouts towards children, underestimation of their self-esteem, low level of teaching.
A sense of freedom is the most important thing that parents get when they switch to a family form of education. Freedom in action, in the schedule of the day, freedom in thought. There is no programming of thoughts like at school.
Thoughts are so different but they all are united in one point - unschooling is the only one form of education that really can grow up A PERSONALITY.
Very nice post about kids and "unschooling".
My father explained it to me.
Here in Portugal Corona is getting worst and schools will close again. :-(
I loved my last homeschooling because I had a lot of time for Hive, :-)
But I couldn't play with my friends in School. :-(
Cross posting in the Kidz Community
school is communication for kids, not education, it's truth;)
yeah, distance education is cose future here in Russia too, and most people are against it. Though I see only benefits;)
Wow! Rather surprised by those two fears. Particularly the first. What does that say about CPS, if they are feared like that when they're supposed to be there to protect children?
parents are afraid to be under attention of the CPS. We all know that if they include you in the "black list", it's hard to live with it, life becomes struggle for your own kids. But in fact, there is no groud for this fear, because there are different forms of education in Russia, and homeschooling is officialy among them. People just don't know their rights.
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