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So You Think You Can Homeschool? | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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So You Think You Can Homeschool? I’m yanking my kids. Yes, after being. Parent you know, the one who helped with the PTA and volunteered in classrooms, the one who made sure her kids were as well adjusted in school as possible, and who read with bated breath every report card comment and district newsletter something hit me like a 2’x4′. Was it seasonal affective disorder? In the Pacific Northwest, that’s no laughing matter. Something sure as hell happened. I don’t know. It started to dawn on me: I could...
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Nature Deficit Disorder: Is It the New Black? | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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Nature Deficit Disorder: Is It the New Black? We had a taste of natural, uncomplicated living when we visited Plumas County, California. It’s in the High Sierras, just south of Lassen Volcanic National Park. It’s California, but not the California many people see on TV and in film. Everywhere, nature awaits: the sweeping views of Indian Valley, the narrow canyons created by the stunning Feather River, the forests thick with wildlife and resonant with birdcalls. 8221; they’d say. Or “Lunch! Has America, t...
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Why We Are Going to Nicaragua | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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Why We Are Going to Nicaragua. Where we are living and teaching English to children is in a part of Costa Rica not too terribly far from the Nicaraguan border three hours, in fact, by a bumpy ride over roads both paved and unpaved. It raises the question: Why? Why go there and take this risk? Why not just stay here, enjoy the beach, and relax in our relatively safe little town? Why not take all that transportation money we’ll be using, and donate it to a Nicaraguan relief agency? City with lots of opport...
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“I Can’t Do It Alone” | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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8220;I Can’t Do It Alone”. Teach my kids full time, all year long. Do it all alone. It’s been said that this is what I’ll be taking on by removing my kids from institutional schooling. Teach the two of them on my own? I fully believe that I can’t. More importantly, I shouldn’t. So I won’t. There’s a P.E. specialist who gives the classroom teacher a much-needed break. And maybe even a music teacher a couple of times a week to share the load, and even leave room for a planning period. It’s madness, right?
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The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children | Roadschooling and Learning in Freedom
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Here we go again, labeling our children. Wouldn’t it be nice if all sorts of different human qualities could be valued? Some kids don’t show their real excellence during the school day. What are we teaching children by making these distinctions? No Man’s Land. High School Guidance: A Cautionary Tale. It seemed that my high school guidance office really didn’t know shit about me. What the Danish Guy Taught Me. And why are the children’s days so scheduled to death? Mr Laszlo and Company. 2016 The World Is ...
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Roadschooling: The 5-Month Mark | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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Roadschooling: The 5-Month Mark. As our time in Central America draws to a close, we’re reflecting on our choice in 2010 to leave institutional schooling for a less structured, more relaxed life as an unschooling family. What have been the benefits? What have been the drawbacks? I find that my answers differ from those of the boys. Benefits, to me, have been these:. 1 More time spent in one another’s presence. 2 More opportunities to bond through shared travel, activities, studies, and relaxation. We do ...
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The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children | About Us
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We are a family of three in the Pacific Northwest. In 2010, after the boys had experienced a few years of child care and elementary grades, we opted for a radical change: no more school from now on. No more arranging our lives around one particular zip code or district calendar. Will we learn out there, outside the box? Have no fearwe’re flexible people with a spirit of adventure. We like our academic subjects applied, with extra mayo. Web site design by Hand Hugs Design.
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What the Danish Guy Taught Me | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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What the Danish Guy Taught Me. Long before I had kids, I was together with a wonderful man from Denmark. We met in grad school in the Midwest. He was getting a master’s in P.E., and helped out with the university’s men’s and women’s swim teams. He once accompanied a busload of swimmers on their way to spring training. The trip was dreary, he later explained. The whole way down to Florida and back, all the swimmers did was watch videos, one right after another. Consuming media like drive-thru cheeseburgers.
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The Three R’s of Standardized Testing Season: Relentless, Remorseless, Regrettable | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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The Three R’s of Standardized Testing Season: Relentless, Remorseless, Regrettable. Look out, world! If we don’t sharpen our #2 pencils and gear up for battle this spring, we’ll be in trouble. Our principal and superintendent will ask questions. Your parents will feel I’m not doing my job. Our school’s Great Schools ratings might take a hit. Those ratings affect how much families want to move here, so it could mean your parents’ house will wind up being worth less money. Would any of you want that? Come ...
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Good Eats | The World Is Our School | Learning by Land, Sea and Air | Unschooling and Deschooling Our Children
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We are learning here that if you want good eats from your own kitchen, you have to take some initiative. Back home, there was Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Trader Joe’s, and other specialty shops where a person really didn’t have to look too far in order to procure interesting ingredients, spices, and condiments. So, we were thrilled to get into “the system” here—-that of figuring out who knows whom, who can get access to a fishing boat to get fresh fish, and when (roughly! We’re going to clean all of ou...
