Slashdot and the Baltimore Sun “Discover” Unschooling
And you can quote me: "I suppose I shouldn't be surprised when mainstream media gets something so spectactularly wrong, but I expect better from the brainiacs at Slashdot. So imagine my surprise to read the headline "Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling" " on Slashdot today, and to learn that unschooling, a method of homeschooling that I and many of my homeschooling friends have personally known about for at least a decade - and which has been around since at least the 70s when John Holt wrote about it - is something new and now."
Posted in Observations, September 4th, 2009
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I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised when mainstream media gets something so spectactularly wrong, but I expect better from the brainiacs at Slashdot.
So imagine my surprise to read the headline “Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, “Unschooling” ” on Slashdot today, and to learn that unschooling, a method of homeschooling that I and many of my homeschooling friends have personally known about for at least a decade - and which has been around since at least the 70s when John Holt wrote about it - is something new and now.
At least Slashdot only acted as if it were something new - the Baltimore Sun was much more insulting, calling unschooling, and I quote, “a byproduct of home schooling.”
Hrmph.
You can read the Slashdot piece here, and read the Baltimore Sun article here.
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