Why all homeschoolers should be miffed with the way ABC News treated unschoolers
For those of you not in the know:
Lovely, no?
Whether or not you are a radical unschooler, you should find this piece of “news” presented to a national audience worthy of your outrage.
A small clip of only two radical unschooling families to measure all of unschooling? Lame, shoddy reporting. Shame on you, ABC News.
If the talking heads were fair to unschoolers, they would have shown the public a few now-grown radical unschoolers succeeding in life. Trust me, they aren’t hard to find with an Internet search bringing many to your browser.
Here’s the problem I see for the rest of the homeschooling community: Do we need ABC News, or anyone else, undermining our family culture and lifestyle choices? Classical, eclectic, Charlotte Mason or whatever you take as your homeschooling label – a biased, critical eye at unschooling is a step closer to all the rest of us being attacked for the way we teach, and live, with our children.
Our freedom to educate at home: will we someday lose it?
Watch the follow-up video the news network produced here, after the “overwhelming response” from viewers.
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April 20, 2010
Tags: freedom, unschooling Posted in: Homeschooling in the News
One Response
Sing it sister. They were talking about this on local radio where I live, I almost lost it. The only callers they had were people who though homeschooling in general was weird. I tried to call in, but they were busy, so I just blogged.
Keep up the good work!
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