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DeschoolingWhat is deschooling? Some call it detoxing. Essentially, deschooling is a transitional period where one re-thinks the education process. It's a frame of time unique to every family, every child who has left institutionalized schooling. Not only do children go through this, but homeschooling parents as well. Simply, it is going without any sort of structured experience that resembles school. As in a garden, it is the time where the soil is left to rest and rejuvenate. It is the time spent after the public school experience to repair and renew. It is winter. The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991, is about why American school is such a spirit-crushing experience, and suggests what to do about it. Learn in Freedom is a great site about taking responsibility for your own learning. Deschooling for Parents, by Sandra Dodd offers tips to schedule some deschooling and avoid the time-wasting stress of trying to build unschooling out of school-parts. Book SuggestionsDeschooling Our Lives presents an argument against focussing on schools for education, presenting articles and gathering writings which show how parents can start the deschooling process and replace school emphasis with workable alternatives.
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