Is the package deal worth it?
Sometimes it is. Also, the fallacy of school being like work, reading fun stuff (kind of), and love as resistance.
(You can listen to the audio recording of this post, ready by me, right here.)
Hello friends,
There are some new people here and I love that. You are so welcome!
I do want you to know that, as per the name of this newsletter, it is fundamentally about what living a life unschooled means and feels like. If you’re not sure you and unschooling have been introduced, I talk a bit about what it is here, and a bit about how it’s fundamentally questioning constructs, and could also be about living as if school didn’t exist.
This is my Friday post, and it is mostly paywalled. I share more personal bits of my life, what I’ve been reading and listening to, what is radicalizing me, and what my children are into each week.
I want to tell you a story about trying school, and how it got me thinking.
I don’t want to go too much into detail, because I feel really strongly about my children’s lives being their own, and their stories being theirs to tell.
So I’m going to share a few details that L is happy with me sharing, and then try and tell this story through my own experience of it, and share more general thoughts on it.
It starts because we are struggling a bit. We live mostly in Bangkok, Thailand, and it has been really hard to be unschoolers in a place without much of a homeschool community, let alone an unschooling one.