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theatlantic: School’s Out Forever: Parents Who Don’t Believe in Education Radically unschooled children are allowed to live each day in freedom, being exactly who and what they are at that moment. They have no bedtime, no mandatory foods, no off-limit words. If your child is tender-headed and shrieks like a parrot when her hair is brushed, the Radical would suggest you not brush her hair. If she prefers to let it mass into a giant dreadlock that collects food and gnats, well, it’s really not your problem, is it? After all, it’s not your hair; it’s hers. The basic operating principle is that you should not treat a child any differently than you would treat another adult, which is to say without guilt, coercion or threats. Read more. [Image: Lisa James/Shutterstock]

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School’s Out Forever: Parents Who Don’t Believe in Education

Radically unschooled children are allowed to live each day in freedom, being exactly who and what they are at that moment. They have no bedtime, no mandatory foods, no off-limit words. If your child is tender-headed and shrieks like a parrot when her hair is brushed, the Radical would suggest you not brush her hair. If she prefers to let it mass into a giant dreadlock that collects food and gnats, well, it’s really not your problem, is it? After all, it’s not your hair; it’s hers. The basic operating principle is that you should not treat a child any differently than you would treat another adult, which is to say without guilt, coercion or threats.

Read more. [Image: Lisa James/Shutterstock]

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    Ifuriating title, sloppy writing, feckless conclusion. Other than that, good piece.
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    …and THIS is why I still have a job. Kids need to be educated by someone who has the dedication to do so. Homeschool or...
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