Unschool days

I posted this earlier in the week from the subscription site Salon.com. Here is the same article free (for now at least.) Also, Chris commented that you can also read it for free at Salon with the daypass after watching an ad.
Celine Joiris has never failed a test. Never eaten crappy cafeteria food. Never been picked last during gym. It's not that she's a supernaturally lucky 16-year-old -- she's simply never been to school.
'I like the idea of studying, but school is just like incarceration,' she explains. Her brother Julian, 17, agrees. 'My approach is, planning, schedules -- OK. Tests, OK. College, OK. Whatever. But I don't really want to think much about it,' he shrugs. 'I can't tell you where I'll be in two years.' Read more...

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Posted by gary at 10/08/2005 10:21:00 PM | 0 comments