Blake Boles
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first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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You know, d don't create chaos in the house.
And this is essentially the de schooling process in action.
And I think some of those families are the ones who are gonna think uh more seriously about self directed learning, about unschooling, or even conventional homeschooling when school returns in the fall.
Yeah, it's sort of like a hard reset on your kids' motivational system.
Uh if they've spent a lot of time being pushed and pulled around by extrinsic motivators, grades, tests, gold stars, threats of detention, uh it takes a while to re
to remember what intrinsic motivation feels like.
And there's this rule of thumb in the on schooling community that for every year that a kid has been in school, give them one month of totally hands off de schooling in which you as a parent do not make any hard demands of how they spend their time.
Again, assuming that they're they're being nice, respectful human beings.
This is not a a call for anarchy in the household.
Sure.
The article was not new or surprising.
It's the same thing that uh we've seen for decades where someone who feels concerned about the welfare of children says, Hey, homeschooling laws in the United States are so relaxed that they can be used and they have been used to cover up cases of child abuse, of hardcore neglect, of hardcore
Sheltering and attempted indoctrination.
And the author of the article cites the book, Educated by Tar Westover, which when I read that book, it's a fantastic memoir.
But the first thing I thought was, oh my gosh, this is what people are going to associate with homeschooling.
And that is what came out of this Harvard article.
Essentially, this professor said, homeschooling is just a big cover-up for abusive parents.
And then the homeschooling universe online immediately pushed back and said, You don't know what you're talking about.
And of course, they're correct.
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