What Is Unschooling Wrong

The abilities to discover and learn manifest themselves during infancy; and these primordial inclinations allow us to gather knowledge and make important connections throughout life. Unschooling is a more extreme method of homeschooling which allows a child to learn through the harnessing of these natural abilities. This form of education may work in a utopia but unfortunately, America is not one. Unschooling is an unnecessary and flawed way to educate a child in multiple aspects. TWEAK THESIS
Unschooling is an educational method where children are supposed to learn anything and everything they would need to know while ultimately rejecting a traditional school curriculum. These children are free to do whatever they want all day and decide
Parents opt out of this altogether and keep their children at home. Joe and Dayna Martin, who unschool their four children, claim that they “wanted [their children] to be partners in [their] lives and treated as equals. [They] wouldn’t tell them what to do, but left them to make their own decisions.”(I LET MY CHILDREN DO WHAT THEY WANT) They believe that they are permitting their children to make their own choices when it is quite the contrary because the decision has been made for them. Children have no say in how they will be educated. Although school may not be a favorite among children, they do not have the chance to explore what it is like even if they wanted to. It goes both ways: just like how parents who support unschooling believe that it is wrong to force a formal education on their children without their say, it is also wrong to force unschooling on them without their say. The opportunities associated with traditional school have been snatched from these children at a young age and replaced with
By forcing their children to be unschooled, parents are robbing their children of experiences and lessons they eventually learn while enrolled in the traditional school system. A child will not only progress academically in school, they will learn life lessons and make friends. School is more than learning math, english, science, and history. School challenges students and allows them to reach their full potential. It is a social experience where children can learn what it socially acceptable and what is not. They will encounter a myriad of different people and learn how to deal with them. At school, kids are “automatically connected to other kids, other values, etcetera, [so] it’s important to find a way that the family can be sufficiently involved in the larger community, or that the child has ways to be involved. Kids need that both socially and for their learning.” (HOW DO UNSCHOOLERS TURN OUT) Unschooling keeps children isolated in their own worlds and “prevent[s] them from exploring outside of the family or outside of the insular group with which the family was tied.” Being able to cooperate with other people and rules is crucial to the work environment. By being unschooled, a child will not garner the skills that help them throughout