ere’s a good article about unschooling in City on a Hill Press. In it, I found several worthwhile snippets about unschooling, but also some concise and precise explanations about problems with today’s public school model.

Take this tidbit about how schools have changed over the past 100 years or so, for example:

“Before there was all this standardized curriculum and testing — all that began in the late 19th century — there was no such thing as school failure,” Glass said. “People just went to school or they didn’t.”

Now that the curriculum has become more rigid, it has begun to create problems. Glass said, “It’s the system that produces winners, losers, those who pass, those who fail, those who count as somebody and those who count as nobody.”

So true — and definitely something that has contributed to our decision to homeschool.

However, the article also states that “Children with two working parents must attend school,” which is patently false. Many single parents homeschool while holding down a job, and many families with two working parents homeschool. Where there’s a will, there is very often a way.

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