Unschool Radical

I am posting this because this is the way people define homeschooling as being successful or not- do this get into college. Somehow a homeschooler is successful if they go to college or university. My husband’s sisters were homeschooled and the first question people ask me ( including other homeschoolers and unschoolers) is- what do they do for a living? Second most popular question is- are they successful. What does this mean? I know what they are asking- but the whole point of unschooling is to challenge the idea of success.

CNN Article
College after homeschooling: The right decision?

CNN’s Pat Etheridge looks into how well home-schooled students fare in college

October 3, 2000
Web posted at: 11:52 a.m. EDT (1552 GMT)

(CNN) — Homeschooling isn’t for everyone, but it seems to have worked for Matt Martin and Sasha Wexler.

Martin attends Piedmont College, a small, liberal arts school in Georgia that actively recruits homeschoolers and currently has 12 of them on campus. Homeschooling “made me very motivated, very self-reliant,” says Martin, a sophomore on full scholarship.

For Wexler, 18, the “home” in homeschooling is wherever she and her laptop computer happen to be. The Washington student is working toward an online high school degree while also pursuing an acting career that occasionally takes her on the road.

Being able to do both makes her better at both, Wexler told CNN. “When I’m doing theater I am happier and I’ll do better school work as well.”

By some accounts, Martin and Wexler missed out on the social life that comes with a traditional high school education. But, to hear them tell it, homeschooling was still the right decision.

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