If you are a student who is angry, frustrated, bored or just basically unhappy at school, you have come to the right place.
We are here to help create a community of like-minded people and to provide information and resources that will help YOU make school WORK FOR YOU. Yup, school should adjust so that it works for you. Why? Because you are fine exactly as you are. School, on the other hand, might need to adjust a bit so that you get what you need out of it.
So, how do you make school adjust for you?
We are here to help create a community of like-minded people and to provide information and resources that will help YOU make school WORK FOR YOU. Yup, school should adjust so that it works for you. Why? Because you are fine exactly as you are. School, on the other hand, might need to adjust a bit so that you get what you need out of it.
So, how do you make school adjust for you?
1. Get informed
Here are links to short videos and pieces of writing that will give you a taste of what Unschooling means, from the people who have done it and those who have researched it.
2. Make a decision
Get to know this website, review and investigate as if you were going to make a presentation on what the movement is all about. Once you fully understand what Unschooling School is, decide if you want to be a part of it.
3. Commit to being responsible
Deepen your understanding of how Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand.
4. Take action
Follow the steps to become a Free Learner and begin to arrange your life to take control of your education and to design school so that it works for you.
"The primary purpose of childhood, from a biological, evolutionary perspective, is to grow increasingly independent and responsible. As I have argued elsewhere (e.g., Gray, 2013), schools tend to inhibit such development. The micromanagement of children’s activities at school, and at adult-directed activities outside of school, deprives children of time to figure out what they themselves would like to do and to learn how to take the initiative and direct their own activities. From this perspective, it is no surprise that the survey results indicate growth in children’s initiative, independence, and responsibility during the time of school closure.
-Dr. Peter Gray, Psychology Today