Another Brick in the Wall Part 2: What could expanded access to the unschooling philosophy look like in the US?

Things would get dicey, but it might all still be worth it.

I used to tell my parents from time to time growing up that I feared becoming “another brick in the wall”. Photo by Aryo Yarahmadi on Unsplash

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This is the second part of a two-part series about my experiences with education in the United States.

The masses appear to generally view kind of schooling that takes place outside of a classroom, or that in which students have at least as much agency with regard to their education as the instructors with great skepticism and oftentimes, even disdain. Non-traditional educational practices, particularly those which do not rely heavily on visiting some kind of schooling facility, are associated with numerous negative stereotypes. For many, the image of a religious zealot confining an excessive number of parentified children to a dining room table in the middle of nowhere while teaching nothing but the parent’s religion comes to mind when one speaks of homeschooling.

One of the primary critiques of homeschooling is that students “lack socialization” and when it comes to unschooling in particular, most appear to struggle even imagining that it’s possible to receive any sort of education in such a manner at all…