Eclectic Amateur

“Unschooling”

Last Sunday, the Ann Arbor News ran an article Skipping school with mom and dad’s help about some local “unschoolers”. They had many nice things to say about Clonlara School also. (Clonlara supports off-site students — in other words, on paper you look like a private school student, you just happen to be educating at home.)

I’m ambivalent regarding “unschooling” — we tend to lean toward that camp, yet I do think that some structure and guidance is necessary. And I’m impressed by what I’ve read so far about homeschooling with a classical curriculum (mainly The Well-Trained Mind).