I unschooled from the age of 12 onward. For me, it was a blessing. I’d hated school and hated academics while in school, but getting to explore at my own pace completely changed my perspective on academics, I ended up becoming a huge math and science nerd.
Damn and I didn't even know she was Canadian. I did know my other favorite Canadian singer Neil Young was though. The Guess Who were the best band to ever come out of Canada. "American Women. Get away from me. American woman, mamma set me free."
how can some one be both 'quintessential' meaning so typical your pic is in the dictionary next to the word and 'one of a kind " meaning atypical or NOT representative of any group or class or anything typical ?
@@creditrepairwizards: Did you stop by just to show the world your bad manners, and cantankerous nature? It appears that you're so inadequately educated that trying to explain to you how someone, or something, can be both things at once, and yet uniquely their own would be of no good use without delving into lessons that would require more time than I'm willing to give to someone like who you've shown yourself to be. Something tells me that you're not open to learning, anyway. I suggest reviewing your primary school education, if you made it that far.....
I love the reactions underneath this video. Unschooling gets so many negative comments, but I can't find any here. I love this! Covid has really opened people's eyes to great alternatives
If Alanis was my mom I’d be sane. But since she wasn’t, I was able to adapt and am who I am today. But god she has always helped me through every stage of my life with her music. Thank you 🙏🏽
She is so admirable. I have been following her journey for years and it is clear to me that she has done the “work” and looked internally for answers and healed. I could listen to her talk for hours because she is no BSer. She is so wise.
25 years later and she is still my mentor. Through my 20's, the heartaches, the panic attacks and now guiding me through unschooling my children. This woman is my whole life. I love her SO MUCH.
Sherry Morris oh I agree! My favorites as well. Had tickets to see The Cranberries 3 months before she passed...one of my biggest concert sadnesses😥 Alanis was and still is phenomenal. So happy there’s a new album!!!
I love this woman, she’s so brilliant, beautiful, and amazingly talented. It’s so wonderful seeing her as a happy wife and mother. Truly a humble, grateful human. God bless her💜🙏🏻
Aww, I love the idea of unschooling. In remember getting shamed constantly in school by teachers for looking out the window and day dreaming. But really, I had picked up what they were talking about in the first 5 minutes and just wanted to make up a story in my head. Felt so stupid and borderline suicidal until college when I was suddenly getting 4.0 GPAs and begged by professors to take up research internships, etc, with them. I think school destroys a lot of gifted people.
Today, being gifted is considered an exceptionality, grouped with things like autism or a mental disability. That can make you wonder if systems just don't understand it well enough. I was gifted but did not find out until much later in life.
I wasn’t considered “ gifted” because I had a physical disability. Back then, those two things didn’t go together. Come to find out, as an adult, I was considered linguistically gifted and slightly ahead in most areas. I was recommended for kindergarten at age 4.5 years. My mother declined because she was overwhelmed by my health challenges.I started out in private school and also did a lot of self-teaching at home, spending most of the time outdoors. When you go to public school, you are required to do tons of work in so little time and it becomes about getting it done and passing grades than actually learning the material. Now, even though I don’t consider myself “dumb”, I can see how public school affected my life and didn’t quite shape my mind as it began. I had many positive experiences with public school, but if I’d had the choice, I’d want a combination of home and private learning.
"Firstly education is about survival within the world and social context . The next level is that the education helps you to contribute to life and your social context. The next level is to help both flourish. To begin with, ask not in school: “what do you want to become?” It’s better to ask: “What problem do you want to solve?” And then help the students develop to become part of the solution they see. Including being able the change the wrongs they see, and we haven't addressed. Climate change and ecological and economical collapse, and corporate dictatorship are happening! Education therefore urgently needs to step away from simple professional preparation to fulfill a job within a company. Many jobs are like cancer cells helping a cancer to grow without restraint. Many of us feel hurt and pain, when we see huge trees chopped down, animals die, people executed, racist injustices, suffer disease or hunger. This pain is normal and healthy. We should not be trained to ignore or overcome it. We should be trained to allow the hurt, for we are truly hurt, and learn how act upon it. The protests against systemic racism show how hurt needs to be exposed before it can be addressed. Thus we need hurt to surface, instead of 'manning children up' which leads to many suicides even." Quoted from: medium.com/the-gentle-revolution/global-shift-in-education-fb7ac55453
Yes, very well said...in other words STOP REPRESSING our Children's emotions and feelings and stop REPRESSING out own "adult" feelings and emotions..the more we repress and hold the pain and feelings in the worse it all gets. Words I remember from my childhood and Far right wing religious upbringing> My sister always saying> "Oh stop with you're touchy feely lovey dovey emotional "let's talk" it makes me sick you make me sick"!. My mother >Shut up you are NOT ALLOWED to speak with feelings and emotions, you do what God says and the bible says, the blood of Jesus was shed for you and all you can do is say is "I want to talk about emotions and feelings and I have questions"."you either stop talking this way or I will get the belt out again and whip you good, do you understand me"?? Thank God I survived and live my own life and don't live in such an emotionally toxic sick environment as an adult. Took a lot of therapy but I learned through the years, how I not only survived but I saved my soul and kept my integrity of who I was and am intact...though I was "punished" for it emotionally and psychically abused for it, I grew and evolved and made it through! My whole family STILL lives this toxic way and still voted for and supports trump. I never will never!
Lasse Givoni Denmark is way ahead of the U.S. in education!! I recently read an in-depth article about what kids from Finland in 5th grade are taught and it blew my mind. Many of these subjects we don’t learn until college. Finland’s education model is closer to what Alanis is talking about than how it is in the U.S. The U.S. is very enamored of mechanistic models... mechanistic everything.
Awesome human being. She loves her family, animals, music, spiritual life, etc. Top of the line artist, person. Unlike the many bloviating, immature and juvenile acting celebrities. She is beautiful on so many vectors. So intelligent.
Love you Alanis, she is a wonderful person. It's about time she came out with a new album, the CDs I have are so worn from listening to them, I feel i should lock them away to protect them so my children can enjoy them in the future.
In tears of deep gratitude for Alanis’s soothing, grounded company along this wild ride. We have journeyed some similar flight/fight/freeze then study/open/heal pathways... I feel such joy to see her luminous self emerging from so many beautiful painful awful amazing layers peeled back. The album cover says it all 🤙🏽 Namaste 🙏🏼 gurl. Mahalo for showing up, shining your light, and sharing your passion & curiosity about life. I think you and Brené Brown could easily cultivate a “heal the heart/thrive your life” course/school/cult/religion... oh boy. Lol. Maybe run for office? Please? All my love ❤️💛💚💙💜
I absolutely LOVE the concept of Unschooling. I am not yet a Parent, but I would absolutely Unschool my children when it comes to that. I have known about it for years and I think it is just a brilliant idea.
Wow.... I love how she talks about the body and how it is responding to this trauma! She sounds like a professor I had in Grad school! Very impressive 👏 👌 👍 😀 🙌
@Seamar Ní Ghloinn i disagree, and i am also a teacher. the system is broken. every unschooled kid i know has turned into balanced, resilient and intelligent. you misunderstand the concept of unschooling.
I did a bit of unschooling with my gifted daughter! At 22 she took a Covid break from college and now she manages a five star restaurant and trades futures on the NY stock exchange. To unschool is very cool!
Is it just me...or does this woman get more beautiful as the years pass? I love her. Her honesty and vulnerability is a gift to the world. I only wish I could get 5 minutes with her to tell her how much she's influenced me for so long and how precious she is
ugh I wish I was unschooled as a kid, I would have thrived, I do this now as an adult. Languages, other skills like cooking, home DIY.. it's all learning.. my parents did teach me a lot as well, every day skills..but school wasn't that great of an experience,, and I was even in Montessori! If I had kids.. I would rule unschool!!!
I have been an Alanis fan since I was 9 years old and I got Jagged Little Pill from a family friend. Now, at 32, I am still consistently bowled over by the generosity of her spirit, her intelligence anf eloquence, and that smile :) you helped build a little english homo, Alanis. Thank U :)
What a BEAUTIFUL human being!!! So cerebral and ALIVE!!! This latest generation will never know what it's like to grow up on 'Jagged Little Pill' or hear her verbose musings on 'Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie' but we can teach them...we can show them how music once used to be...and go the a direction it can be again...only reimagined and exuberant for this new generation to be totally blown away by. Juxtaposition...anachronism. We have to keep in mind there are no limits.
It seems that she is so underrated, cuz i dont know her till this month , i checked her songs amd they are soooooo great , she may not be , but her name is a lot unfamiliar to outside of the USA
I love her so so much, I've been a fan since i was 9! My mom always worried about me because my taste in music was always so adult, never got into Backstreet boys or none of that. It was all Alanis and Tori Amos and Fiona Apple for me lol
I noticed that "unschooling" was a trend among parents in the Pacific Northwest when I lived there. I was a little concerned, as some of those parents I met seemed a little aggressively defensive that their child had not yet learned to read and did not have a curriculum to learn math. (This is certainly not reflective of all parents who have tried this method; Alanis is clearly quite lovely and calm.) I'd encourage anyone interested in it to look up an article on the blog, Old-Fashioned Motherhood, from a mother who unschooled her two children. Having encountered some kids who were unschooled (coworkers' kids), they seemed very bright and personable. One boy's mother had chosen to unschool him, but his father wanted to enroll him in school as he got around 10-11 years old. The boy even seemed interested in going to school. But he couldn't read or do math at his peers' level and would have been at a disadvantage if he'd been placed in the same grade as other kids his age. I felt bad that he didn't have the option to experience schooling with other kids. I attended a non-traditional independent study school in my last years of high school and fared much better there than in a traditional school. I wish there would be some reform in how traditional schools operated, but I'm still glad that I attended school all those years. I think it can be very fruitful to take a year away from traditional curriculum - maybe a year of homeschooling, worldschooling, etc. But again, I'd encourage anyone to read the unschooling article on the blog, Old-Fashioned Motherhood.
I wish unschooling was a 'thing' when I was a kid.... I think far too many youngsters are actually held back by trying to/being forced to conform. That going to Uni coupled with the debt that comes with it, is the ONLY way to get on in life, when it's so far from the truth. I applaud her approach.
I unschooled from the age of 12 onward. For me, it was a blessing. I’d hated school and hated academics while in school, but getting to explore at my own pace completely changed my perspective on academics, I ended up becoming a huge math and science nerd.
After quarantine, WE NEED a Carpool with her.
Yes! Great Idea.
OMG YES!
And sing Alanis' revised version of "Ironic" together!
That would be amazing.
I’d love that!💫
She's such a quintessential Canadian female - humble, smart, kind, considerate, polite - yet also so unique... truly one-of-a-kind.
Damn and I didn't even know she was Canadian. I did know my other favorite Canadian singer Neil Young was though. The Guess Who were the best band to ever come out of Canada. "American Women. Get away from me. American woman, mamma set me free."
how can some one be both 'quintessential' meaning so typical your pic is in the dictionary next to the word and 'one of a kind " meaning atypical or NOT representative of any group or class or anything typical ?
She is wonderful
@Phil mr Mr You're ignorance is both appalling, and blinding!
@@creditrepairwizards: Did you stop by just to show the world your bad manners, and cantankerous nature? It appears that you're so inadequately educated that trying to explain to you how someone, or something, can be both things at once, and yet uniquely their own would be of no good use without delving into lessons that would require more time than I'm willing to give to someone like who you've shown yourself to be. Something tells me that you're not open to learning, anyway. I suggest reviewing your primary school education, if you made it that far.....
So nice to hear someone having a real conversation on a talk show. Love this woman!
What an intelligent, in tune and wonderful human being she is! Always loved her music but I also love where her mind and heart are ❤️
She has aged so gracefully! Pretty much identical from how she looked in the 90s.
Yes, except softer looking. She actually looks younger than in the 90's
So true she looks amazing!! She looks the same! Hasn’t aged at all!
Beautiful at 46 years old. Always been a big fan. JLP was a game changer
Yeah let’s all be shallow and talk about her looks! Wasn’t that what her music was against? Shallowness?
@@wandajames143 As one of my favorite female vocalists....I'm merely complimenting her, so shut the fuck up. I'll say what I want, when I want.
I love the reactions underneath this video. Unschooling gets so many negative comments, but I can't find any here. I love this! Covid has really opened people's eyes to great alternatives
Yay Alannis! Such a delight to hear you’re unschooling. We’re a child-directed learning family of four kids and twelve years.
She is such a strong woman, and she tottaly gives that vibe off
If Alanis was my mom I’d be sane. But since she wasn’t, I was able to adapt and am who I am today. But god she has always helped me through every stage of my life with her music. Thank you 🙏🏽
I love that she’s still a hippie ❤️
She is so admirable. I have been following her journey for years and it is clear to me that she has done the “work” and looked internally for answers and healed. I could listen to her talk for hours because she is no BSer. She is so wise.
Oh hey, I was unschooled!! Oh man, what a relief to hear someone talk about it intelligently and positively 😣
This woman is a masterpiece!
I miss her soooo much! What a beautiful woman and artist!
unschooling is a brilliant approach to developing children's self-esteem
Yes. Much like the Montessori model, children are given the opportunity to discover their strengths and true interests with unschooling.
@Corey Adams Music prove it
Yes because the current education system is corrupted
I could literally listen to Alanis talk all day!!
Intelligent, humble, kind and empathetic, so much can be learned from Alanis ❤
25 years later and she is still my mentor. Through my 20's, the heartaches, the panic attacks and now guiding me through unschooling my children. This woman is my whole life. I love her SO MUCH.
Jagged Little Pill will always be a classic but definitely excited to hear Alanis’ new album 🙌💯😎👍
I was 22 then. Her's & The Cranberries were my biggest female artist influences then & remain today.... along with a few others since then.
I didn't like that part that she put in there about "going down on him in a theatre!" I didn't feel that it was necessary to include that.
Sherry Morris oh I agree! My favorites as well. Had tickets to see The Cranberries 3 months before she passed...one of my biggest concert sadnesses😥 Alanis was and still is phenomenal. So happy there’s a new album!!!
I love this woman, she’s so brilliant, beautiful, and amazingly talented. It’s so wonderful seeing her as a happy wife and mother. Truly a humble, grateful human. God bless her💜🙏🏻
Aww, I love the idea of unschooling. In remember getting shamed constantly in school by teachers for looking out the window and day dreaming. But really, I had picked up what they were talking about in the first 5 minutes and just wanted to make up a story in my head. Felt so stupid and borderline suicidal until college when I was suddenly getting 4.0 GPAs and begged by professors to take up research internships, etc, with them. I think school destroys a lot of gifted people.
Today, being gifted is considered an exceptionality, grouped with things like autism or a mental disability. That can make you wonder if systems just don't understand it well enough. I was gifted but did not find out until much later in life.
I wasn’t considered “ gifted” because I had a physical disability. Back then, those two things didn’t go together. Come to find out, as an adult, I was considered linguistically gifted and slightly ahead in most areas. I was recommended for kindergarten at age 4.5 years. My mother declined because she was overwhelmed by my health challenges.I started out in private school and also did a lot of self-teaching at home, spending most of the time outdoors. When you go to public school, you are required to do tons of work in so little time and it becomes about getting it done and passing grades than actually learning the material. Now, even though I don’t consider myself “dumb”, I can see how public school affected my life and didn’t quite shape my mind as it began. I had many positive experiences with public school, but if I’d had the choice, I’d want a combination of home and private learning.
She looks timeless ,just love her .
"Firstly education is about survival within the world and social context . The next level is that the education helps you to contribute to life and your social context. The next level is to help both flourish.
To begin with, ask not in school: “what do you want to become?” It’s better to ask: “What problem do you want to solve?” And then help the students develop to become part of the solution they see. Including being able the change the wrongs they see, and we haven't addressed.
Climate change and ecological and economical collapse, and corporate dictatorship are happening! Education therefore urgently needs to step away from simple professional preparation to fulfill a job within a company. Many jobs are like cancer cells helping a cancer to grow without restraint.
Many of us feel hurt and pain, when we see huge trees chopped down, animals die, people executed, racist injustices, suffer disease or hunger. This pain is normal and healthy. We should not be trained to ignore or overcome it. We should be trained to allow the hurt, for we are truly hurt, and learn how act upon it. The protests against systemic racism show how hurt needs to be exposed before it can be addressed. Thus we need hurt to surface, instead of 'manning children up' which leads to many suicides even."
Quoted from: medium.com/the-gentle-revolution/global-shift-in-education-fb7ac55453
Yes, very well said...in other words STOP REPRESSING our Children's emotions and feelings and stop REPRESSING out own "adult" feelings and emotions..the more we repress and hold the pain and feelings in the worse it all gets. Words I remember from my childhood and Far right wing religious upbringing> My sister always saying> "Oh stop with you're touchy feely lovey dovey emotional "let's talk" it makes me sick you make me sick"!. My mother >Shut up you are NOT ALLOWED to speak with feelings and emotions, you do what God says and the bible says, the blood of Jesus was shed for you and all you can do is say is "I want to talk about emotions and feelings and I have questions"."you either stop talking this way or I will get the belt out again and whip you good, do you understand me"??
Thank God I survived and live my own life and don't live in such an emotionally toxic sick environment as an adult. Took a lot of therapy but I learned through the years, how I not only survived but I saved my soul and kept my integrity of who I was and am intact...though I was "punished" for it emotionally and psychically abused for it, I grew and evolved and made it through! My whole family STILL lives this toxic way and still voted for and supports trump. I never will never!
Lasse Givoni Denmark is way ahead of the U.S. in education!! I recently read an in-depth article about what kids from Finland in 5th grade are taught and it blew my mind. Many of these subjects we don’t learn until college. Finland’s education model is closer to what Alanis is talking about than how it is in the U.S. The U.S. is very enamored of mechanistic models... mechanistic everything.
she’s the most wholesome famous person ever
25 years and she still looks amazing!
She has the same parenting and life approach that I do, love her....
I’ve been essentially unschooling my teen boys since before the lockdown and would love to hear the two of you talk more about it!
"functional rollercoaster" would be a killer album title
Yes!
Alanis is basically the most effervesent teacher I know. And she reminds me to keep eating plant based meals.
Haven't followed Ms. Morissette much, but such an intelligent, beautiful human being--inside and out.
I would have never recognized her! She looks completely different. She is definitely luminous and packed with wisdom!🙏❤
Love her! Interesting to hear her speak about her home life. She is unique in her songwriting and vocal nuances. A rare talent.
Shes got it together...Body-Mind-Spirit....and She puts it all in Her music I do believe....ALANIS
Thank you for interviewing this amazing Canadian musician!
Alanis still looks good; isn't it ironic?😁
tyson 🤩
She's my favourite female artist I love her. She's so beautiful aswell.
She is absolutely beautiful! Ive loved all of her music for years
Awesome human being. She loves her family, animals, music, spiritual life, etc. Top of the line artist, person. Unlike the many bloviating, immature and juvenile acting celebrities. She is beautiful on so many vectors. So intelligent.
Really inspiring and very literal ! Thanks so much for showing up fully!
It was her birthday this day! I love this woman so much! I went to her concert just before quarantine. A beautiful experience!
I was 13, it was and continues to be a pivotal impact in my life.
So good that she's here to remind you James
I could listen to her talk for hours!
Love you Alanis, she is a wonderful person. It's about time she came out with a new album, the CDs I have are so worn from listening to them, I feel i should lock them away to protect them so my children can enjoy them in the future.
I love her Tibetan bowl. 💖
That reads like a euphemism.
;-)
She is super intelligent!
She s so beautiful!!! Big hug from Portugal
My siblings and I used to jam to her songs from the Jagged Little Pill album in the car, on the way to school. I miss those days...
Of course she unschools! I love her.
In tears of deep gratitude for Alanis’s soothing, grounded company along this wild ride. We have journeyed some similar flight/fight/freeze then study/open/heal pathways...
I feel such joy to see her luminous self emerging from so many beautiful painful awful amazing layers peeled back. The album cover says it all 🤙🏽
Namaste 🙏🏼 gurl. Mahalo for showing up, shining your light, and sharing your passion & curiosity about life. I think you and Brené Brown could easily cultivate a “heal the heart/thrive your life” course/school/cult/religion... oh boy. Lol. Maybe run for office? Please?
All my love ❤️💛💚💙💜
James: what does unschooling mean?
Alanis: proceeds to explain
James: what does unschooling mean?
I just love her so much. Helped me through some really tough times. 😍
Beautiful human.
She offers so much helpful advice! Thank you, Alanis! This is what we all need to hear. :)
This is rad! We have been unschooling for 8 years and we LOVE it!
Life got way better when I started unschooling during lock down
She’s amazing and a normal human being, Alanis ❤️💨
She’s so smart!
I absolutely LOVE the concept of Unschooling. I am not yet a Parent, but I would absolutely Unschool my children when it comes to that. I have known about it for years and I think it is just a brilliant idea.
Wow.... I love how she talks about the body and how it is responding to this trauma! She sounds like a professor I had in Grad school! Very impressive 👏 👌 👍 😀 🙌
Wow. Had no idea Alanis is an unschooler. Amazing! Talented, beautiful and a natural anarchist.
Love the unschooling concept!
@Seamar Ní Ghloinn i disagree, and i am also a teacher. the system is broken. every unschooled kid i know has turned into balanced, resilient and intelligent. you misunderstand the concept of unschooling.
She's truly what I want to become in life.
Alanis always my favorite.
I’m unschooled so this is very interesting
She speaks ellloquently! I love her zen style
Alanis Morisette looks younger as she looked in 1997.
Awww she looks great! I loved jagged little pill as a teenager. Might listen to it again right now!
I did a bit of unschooling with my gifted daughter! At 22 she took a Covid break from college and now she manages a five star restaurant and trades futures on the NY stock exchange. To unschool is very cool!
It sucks she can’t go on tour 😭 I was gonna see her
YES! Preach it Sista!
Is it just me...or does this woman get more beautiful as the years pass? I love her. Her honesty and vulnerability is a gift to the world. I only wish I could get 5 minutes with her to tell her how much she's influenced me for so long and how precious she is
ugh I wish I was unschooled as a kid, I would have thrived, I do this now as an adult. Languages, other skills like cooking, home DIY.. it's all learning.. my parents did teach me a lot as well, every day skills..but school wasn't that great of an experience,, and I was even in Montessori! If I had kids.. I would rule unschool!!!
I feel you. I feel you, mama 🙏
She is so awesome.
I have been an Alanis fan since I was 9 years old and I got Jagged Little Pill from a family friend. Now, at 32, I am still consistently bowled over by the generosity of her spirit, her intelligence anf eloquence, and that smile :) you helped build a little english homo, Alanis. Thank U :)
I’m a 90’s kid, and I had the biggest crush on her. Glad to see she’s still beautiful! And odd af! Love her!
Alanis is amazing
Alanis Morissette🙏.
i love this woman so much..
She's amazing ❤️
She is so amazing!
What a BEAUTIFUL human being!!! So cerebral and ALIVE!!! This latest generation will never know what it's like to grow up on 'Jagged Little Pill' or hear her verbose musings on 'Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie' but we can teach them...we can show them how music once used to be...and go the a direction it can be again...only reimagined and exuberant for this new generation to be totally blown away by. Juxtaposition...anachronism. We have to keep in mind there are no limits.
WOW,
She looks amazing she has her long locks back.
I have been a fan since I was 9 years old. She is a truly talented artist! My only #idol. 💓💓💓
Intelligent, beautiful and so talented🤩
It seems that she is so underrated, cuz i dont know her till this month , i checked her songs amd they are soooooo great , she may not be , but her name is a lot unfamiliar to outside of the USA
Isn't she the best ❤❤❤
I love her so so much, I've been a fan since i was 9! My mom always worried about me because my taste in music was always so adult, never got into Backstreet boys or none of that. It was all Alanis and Tori Amos and Fiona Apple for me lol
Dude. I’ve been listening since I was nine too. 👍💖
Keith, you are an impressive young man with excellent musical choices. Alanis is absolutely the finest.
She's my all time favourite Hippy...
Such an intelligent women
She looks great
Yet another reason I love this woman.
You gotta love Alanis.
Alanis is my homegirl!
*LETS TALK ABOUT LOVE AND JAGGED LITTLE PILL ARE ON MY TOP FIVE MOST FAVE ALBUMS!*
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I noticed that "unschooling" was a trend among parents in the Pacific Northwest when I lived there. I was a little concerned, as some of those parents I met seemed a little aggressively defensive that their child had not yet learned to read and did not have a curriculum to learn math. (This is certainly not reflective of all parents who have tried this method; Alanis is clearly quite lovely and calm.) I'd encourage anyone interested in it to look up an article on the blog, Old-Fashioned Motherhood, from a mother who unschooled her two children.
Having encountered some kids who were unschooled (coworkers' kids), they seemed very bright and personable. One boy's mother had chosen to unschool him, but his father wanted to enroll him in school as he got around 10-11 years old. The boy even seemed interested in going to school. But he couldn't read or do math at his peers' level and would have been at a disadvantage if he'd been placed in the same grade as other kids his age. I felt bad that he didn't have the option to experience schooling with other kids.
I attended a non-traditional independent study school in my last years of high school and fared much better there than in a traditional school. I wish there would be some reform in how traditional schools operated, but I'm still glad that I attended school all those years. I think it can be very fruitful to take a year away from traditional curriculum - maybe a year of homeschooling, worldschooling, etc. But again, I'd encourage anyone to read the unschooling article on the blog, Old-Fashioned Motherhood.
I love you so much, Alanis 💐
I would have loves this learning! I have Adhd and love hands on education.
I wish unschooling was a 'thing' when I was a kid.... I think far too many youngsters are actually held back by trying to/being forced to conform. That going to Uni coupled with the debt that comes with it, is the ONLY way to get on in life, when it's so far from the truth. I applaud her approach.