Hacker News with Generative AI: Homeschooling

Home Unschooling (blogspot.com)
One point I should have made at the beginning of the previous post is the distinction between unschooling and homeschooling. Most home schooling is not unschooling--the parents have a curriculum and are following something closer to the conventional model than we are. And one can do unschooling in a school. Our kids were in a very small private school modeled on Sudbury Valley School for some years.

Education, Homeschooling, Unschooling

8 points by htunnicliff 12 days ago | 6 comments

Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? (goodtechthings.com)
It’s pretty disorienting to me that smart people, secular people, particularly people in tech, view homeschooling as a high-status option now.

Homeschooling, Education, Social Trends, Technology

374 points by forrestbrazeal 39 days ago | 1348 comments

Writing Is a Visual Language (argumatronic.com)
As I’ve said before, I’ve been homeschooling my kids for a long time now. Some subjects are fun to teach to them, and some are not. For the short time my older son was in public school (first grade), he was being taught writing in the way that seems fairly typical for public schools: he would be assigned some topic to write about, and given a length requirement (whether minimum or maximum or both) and told to write.