HandInHand HomeschoolNov 27, 2022
Recently saw this title: American Families' Attitudes to Unschooling: A National Survey - and got excited for a minute about a peer reviewed article. Got thru 1st page and realized it's just more drivel written by people with ZERO experience with #homeschooling. I feel the need to call out William Vesneski, Alan Breen, Fredricka Reisman, et al for continuing to promote false information about the reasons why the majority of families choose to #homeschool /1
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#Education Researchers & #Academics: Please do your jobs. National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES) is your go-to source for demographic info about #homeschoolers. #SecularHomeschoolers know - Christian families are NOT the majority in the homeschool community. Stop pushing that false narrative.

The real problem with this article, however, is that non-homeschooling researchers have now formally defined #unschooling for our educational community. /2

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If you actually unschooled, you'd know that #unschoolers do not shun formal curricula. If your child comes to you & wants to be an engineer & they embrace the educational journey to become one, you'll find that your unschooling will include formal math textbooks, among other traditional learning experiences. /3
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I'm not going to talk about the actual study results because it was an online market research survey of random parents during covid19 w/ presumably have no personal frame of reference for what unschooling actually is, but let's take a look at the study's discussion of findings and how there's now quantifiable evidence that shows parents don't know enough about #SelfDirectedLearning to figure out how to #unschool on their own and it's up to the #academic "experts" to tell them how to do it. /4