Blake Boles

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 146a: Self-Directed Learning Advocate Blake Boles on Unschooling · 9 Dec 2022 podcast

And so what we see as success really might just be a selection effect here.

So it's hard to tell whether that's true or not.

There's no good research.

There's no good data on unschooling.

There are some surveys of

Those who have been unschooled for a long time, and those surveys look a lot like, yeah, these kids go on to do normal things, normal relevant to their sort of socioeconomic brackets.

There are also surveys from these democratic free schools and other sorts of learning centers where you're essentially doing unschooling, but you're doing it in a community center.

And those say that, yeah, all the kids do fine also.

I think there is a good measured tilt toward being a little bit more creative, being a little bit more entrepreneurial when you're a grown unschooler.

So again, whether that produces that skill or it's just fostering the pre-existing attitudes, I'm not sure.

Sure.

I'll answer that second part first.

There is no formal restriction.

There's no institutional barrier against unschooled kids, kids who have never spent a day in school and have never used a formal curriculum at home.

There's no barrier that will stop them from enrolling like there is in other countries where there are actual pretty serious barriers to homeschoolers homeschooling all the way through high school and then going into university.

And so we're pretty lucky in the United States in that regard.

Essentially, colleges hold unschoolers and homeschoolers and alternatively schooled kids to the same standard as everyone else.

You still have to play by the rules of the game.

They have to take the SAT.

If you're going to get into a really competitive school, you have to take SAT subject tests.

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