Does it teach you about life? That sounds like what we should be teaching.
Basically. Unschooling is just "whatever the parents (and child) think their child should learn."
I did, like, a hybrid. We didn't technically follow a curriculum other than "you'll probably need this for your SATs. Maybe" and then I "dropped out" before I even took the SATs, anyway. Which sounds bad on paper, but I just took my GED early so I could start college early. /shrug
imo, it's the best practice to actually focus on what the kid's going to need to know in life -- and to focus on the things they're interested in and that they're good at. So yeah, teach them basic life skills, too. Homeschooling can end up giving kids more independence and freedom than they would in school, too. (or less if their parents are super sheltering)
No need to waste their time teaching them things they'll literally never use in life if they're not even interested in it. Like music. Or a required gym class because some kids are obese? wtf is that about. I'm not against exercise but like, playing sports you hate every other day? I'll pass. I was more content doing morning yoga twice a week than playing sports.
...Anyway. yeah, it usually does teach you about "life" and gives you more life skills.
But heck, it's just my $0.02 from my experiences.
I have some friends who are homeschooled. I feel like in theory home schooling is great but in practice it can be not as great as it seems. My homeschooled friends all excel where they have natural skill but have a significantly lower skill in things they aren't good at. I think it didn't work well because there's not enough drive for them to learn the things they're not good at because their parents won't make them because, they're their parents. Not to be rude or anything though, if you want to politely disagree go ahead.
I have to agree and disagree with this, tbh.
As I stated in the last thread, it's definitely not for everyone. That, I agree with.
Some kids really do need that extra push, some kids just learn better in a public/private school setting. Different learning styles, etc.
But at the same time, not everyone can be good at everything. It's only natural for certain skills or subjects to be harder for some people to absorb. There are some things you'll just never be good at. I excelled academically, but I'm tone deaf and uncoordinated -- when music classes were required by school, I certainly did fail them, lol.
But. at the end of the day. If they (or their parents) are lacking in the motivation/drive to work harder to learn those particular subjects, then that's just bad on them. They may not even need to work "harder" necessarily, they just need to find a way to learn about that subject that works for them.
I did horribly in math when I was in school. After I got home-schooled and I got to learn it on my own, I did it almost completely backward from how my old teachers taught it, lol, but it worked for me and it gave me the same end result. They add too damn many steps to a simple algebra equation in real schools, I can't work with that, lol.
tl;dr everyone learns differently, and the same thing just doesn't work for everyone. That, plays a big role in why some kids need tutoring, or why some parents pull their kids out of school to homeschool/unschool.
Homeschooling can be the best thing that happens to one child, and the worst thing that happens to another.
