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NanaCat

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20. Unschooling can work, done right

Reply to marble falls (Reply #5)

Sun May 12, 2024, 08:02 PM

May 2024

It was the program I followed, because my son was more the 'deep dive' learner than breadth-not-depth.

He was doing advanced math, studying college-level marine biology (and driving me insane with trips to the beach for samples), spoke 3 foreign languages (one of them well enough to work as a translator for a small film company when he was 17), read Dostoevsky and Chaucer 'for fun,' is still a computer programming demon, and played four instruments credibly well before he was 15.

What had your kid learned by that age?

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MAGA Baffoons proudly bragging about being uneducated. [View all] Emile May 2024 OP

These are dodgy people. They dodge questions they don't like and and ignore answers that don't fit the MAGA narrative. marble falls May 2024 #1

and they think they know it all. Probably graduated Emile May 2024 #2

It gets worse, you know: look up the "unschooling" movement. Now that's some scary shit ... marble falls May 2024 #5

Unschooling movement. Oh dear lord. paleotn May 2024 #12

Most of them were too dumb to realize Emile May 2024 #14

Unschooling can work, done right NanaCat May 2024 #20

My son got his masters from George Washington University, my eldest daughter graduated St Edwards University ... marble falls May 2024 #22

Many people are uneducated or undereducated. Being proud of it makes one stupid. They will die that way. Wonder Why May 2024 #3

They will die early and in great pain and will blame us. paleotn May 2024 #11

Sometimes a laugh at the man in the street interviews. JohnnyRingo May 2024 #4

There's a sinister aspect to the arrogance of their ignorance. It is telling. jaxexpat May 2024 #6

The: "I'm ignorant and proud of it" contingent dlk May 2024 #7

I know a guy that fits right in Woodwizard May 2024 #8

What's scary is how many of these buffoons there are in this country. lees1975 May 2024 #9

agreed Skittles May 2024 #18

Some of them in blue areas have cranked out their own supply NanaCat May 2024 #21

They're the mob as John Adams called them. paleotn May 2024 #10

Paddle faster, I hear banjos. n/t flvegan May 2024 #13

Does this go on in other countries? not fooled May 2024 #15

We do have 'teh stoopid' here in France, but it doesn't seem to be as endemic GoneOffShore May 2024 #17

Time for a Terry Pratchett quote: GoneOffShore May 2024 #16

The Rapist in Chief said it himself: They LOVE the poorly educated, because B.See May 2024 #19

Knowledge and Truth are "woke." Emile May 2024 #23