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it is not that there is no curriculum for most 'unschooled' child, it is 'un' structured in how it is taught. in other words, they go at a pace that is beneficial to the child while keeping their interest to learn. it helps to redirect them and their focus to bring them up to speed or help them advance! i know that parents need to be involved too and help to teach 'real world' learning and not expect or rely on the public schools to teach this. i am a public school graduate and if my parents weren't involved in teaching me things at home i wouldn't know half of what i know today!
if you are 'un schooling' and teaching a child to garden you can focus on teaching them the history of how that plant may have developed over the years from what it originally was-Biology lesson too! or my favorite since i was able to teach my autistic nephew a few new things to help him focus-about bugs and how some are beneficial and others are pests! you can teach them different aspects of math by predicting the harvest or the time to harvest through using the almanac and the frost dates, and average bounty per plant per year!
i admit that not all parents that are 'un-schooling' their children are actually using their children's home time to teach them useful things. and some are probably using it to exploit them to cook, clean and do other household chores instead of learning. (those are useful skills too! but are not teaching new things)
many news articles don't give the time to get a full story. they try to get the 'wow', 'that's sad', or 'how can that happen?' response. if you don't question it further and do your own research you would never know the other side of the story that is still untold!
it is not that there is no curriculum for most 'unschooled' child, it is 'un' structured in how it is taught. in other words, they go at a pace that is beneficial to the child while keeping their interest to learn. it helps to redirect them and their focus to bring them up to speed or help them advance! i know that parents need to be involved too and help to teach 'real world' learning and not expect or rely on the public schools to teach this. i am a public school graduate and if my parents weren't involved in teaching me things at home i wouldn't know half of what i know today!
if you are 'un schooling' and teaching a child to garden you can focus on teaching them the history of how that plant may have developed over the years from what it originally was-Biology lesson too! or my favorite since i was able to teach my autistic nephew a few new things to help him focus-about bugs and how some are beneficial and others are pests! you can teach them different aspects of math by predicting the harvest or the time to harvest through using the almanac and the frost dates, and average bounty per plant per year!
i admit that not all parents that are 'un-schooling' their children are actually using their children's home time to teach them useful things. and some are probably using it to exploit them to cook, clean and do other household chores instead of learning. (those are useful skills too! but are not teaching new things)
many news articles don't give the time to get a full story. they try to get the 'wow', 'that's sad', or 'how can that happen?' response. if you don't question it further and do your own research you would never know the other side of the story that is still untold!
