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It’s Alive!
Introducing the Blog Itself
“If a child is home schooled in Brooklyn and the experience isn’t documented publicly in excruciating (loving!) detail, does the kid get any education at all?”Read More
Who’s the Asshole?
The Psychopathology of Free Writing
“Does right always start off right?”
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Verging on Hysteria
An Amicable Conversation About Home School “Issues”
“So you’ll just tell him that you want to try something new and nutty?”Read More
Arrested Development
A “Truant’s” Story
“Those are things that I could never have learned at ‘real’ school.”
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Youth Referred
The Father of the “Truant” Speaks
“Are we bad parents?”Read More
The Thrill is Gone
Schools, Wilton CT, and Opportunity Costs
“May he be a great learner and a great teacher.”
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What Ain’t
Mistakes Are Made OR Something Has to Give
“How is it possible to have an over-scheduled home school child? Why aren’t we having more fun?”Read More
Rock On
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: A Lament
“Why so threatened? Why so scared? Who so unreceptive to change?”Read More
The Rigor
Curriculum Matters & the Risk of “Other”
“I do not focus on what SchoolLess isn’t getting—some of which is loss, some of which is gain—but on what he is getting.”
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Can We All Get Along?
A Sit Down with SmallerMan
“I wonder whether his growing dissatisfaction is based on his perception of reality, or is it a reflection of ours?”Read More