The Unschooling Movement: School's Out ... Forever

Are you serious? It's not about being white or black. Those kids are white and I don't think it's okay, and from the comments it doesn't seem like anyone else thinks it's okay either. Quit crying the race card. And anyways, if African-American children in the ghetto weren't attending school and getting an education, wouldn't you be happy people were calling CPS so that they could straighten the situation out and help those children go to school so that they wouldn't end up being adults living in the ghetto as well? My goodness. CPS gets called on everybody, not just blacks in a bad area.

I have to totally agree with you Sara. If they were black living anywhere it would have been a problem and someone would be calling the police, and CPS. But to have your kids at home not teaching them anything is not a good idea. I really don't like homeschooling either because parents are not teachers and have not been to school to study about teaching a child or anyone.

"And as for letter, I need but three to set you down..A.S.S."-Cyrano

I have to totally agree with you Sara. If they were black and living anywhere it would have been a problem and the police and CPS would have been called. I don't like homeschooling because to me none of the parents are teachers, never been to school to learn how to teach a child. Every child should be in school learning.

She states that "most of her children have chosen traditional school now." They probably did that to get away from her.

You got that right sister!

I completely agree with you.

Pam and Sara

Not everything put on the table is of race. I happen to be a white girl from the ghetto and social services was called on my father by a black teacher. She helped me get back into school and I went to college and graduated. It is not about black and white anymore. It is about our children. Out of the 1.5 million who and "unschooled" I am sure all races are included in that figure; Not just black and white, but Hispanic, Asian, etc. Who knows where education is going to take us. Moreover, education and the future of our nation is going to be in the hands of all these young people. I pray all children are prepared for the challenges.

Or white and poor.

For God sakes Sara get a life. Don't you understand that you are why the black are in the situation that they are because you think the world owes you a living. Stop passing the blame on to other people and take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody owes you anything and if you are poor then you are not doing what you need to in order to succeed in what you are doing. Stop playing house and get mad at the right person, yourself. Owe yea by the way I AM BLACK

Wow did you retards even read the article? Or are you just jumping to conclusions? In the Article it states that "According to the Home School Legal Defense Association, there are no laws regarding homeschooling or unschooling in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Connecticut or New Jersey." So yes if you do not live in one of those states and your kids are running around doing whatever they want your neighbors SHOULD be calling CPS if this is occurring. However if you do live in one of those states and the police coming its on your for being a terrible parent and not them.

Furthermore your point is hypocritical because the people who would be calling the cops would be other inner city people. So what are you trying to prove? That everyone in the inner city is out to get one another and that people in well to do suburban areas care about their neighbors?

I'm white, but I totally agree with you.

I am thinking about this, my son is doing poorly in school and besides, I won/t have to worry if he is in danger here in Florida there are to many nuts!!!

it has nothing to do with black and white and everything to do with money

I guess if you have those type of "low intelligence" type kids... (get a hint from the parents) Then by all means...Save the state some $$ and keep the kids home. The rest of those who want a REAL education... will not be held back by your hellions

I'm troubled that these kids are learning that they are the center of the universe. Education is so much more than academics. While I appreciate their parent's love of their children, I think the permissiveness is misguided. I would say this regardless of race, color, etc...

LOL nooooo there's no political bias in media ha ha...the government sets up schools that fail the kids on purpose...the schools are failures and so parents who really care about their kids pull them out of the failed school system and school them on their own and they do better on tests that the public school kids do and the media makes them out to be some sort of freaks or weirdos because they don't do things the government way but then there are all sorts of scandals, bullying, sex stuff going on in the public school but that's okay...so the normal people are called freaks and the sickos are called normal...there's the media and the goverment for ya.

This isn't about race. It's about education. These kids, whether they are white, black, yellow, green, or orange are not being provided an education that will actually sustain them for life after adolescence.

I can just see me hiring these children. As the employer, I'll ask them to initiate a task, see it through, and report back. They'll say, "I don't do that..that's not what I'm interested in!" There's no discipline in choices. The choice is to discipline so that you eventually can wisely choose.