Radio feature on Unschooling
arun on May 23 2007 at 5:39 am | Filed under: looking out, mainstream media, unschooling | Click here to go HOME | or find out about SUBSCRIBING TO THE PIT |
Minnesota Public Radio did an interesting story on unschooling here. Here’s a quote from it:
For Roya Sooroshian, getting into college wasn’t a problem. She’s been unschooled since the fourth grade. She passed the high school equivalency exam at 15. Now, at 22, she just graduated from California State University at Long Beach.
Sooroshian says when she first started taking formal classes, she was amazed at the difference between her and her classmates.
“I’d get homework and I’d go do it, and yet all the other students wouldn’t do it at all, or they’d try to do the least they could,” says Sooroshian. “I think that’s because they’re tired of school. They’re tired of people telling them what’s important to learn right now. I never had that.”
Sooroshian says her education gave her plenty of freedom. And that freedom is at the heart of unschooling.
Her mum Pam, is on my “must read” list when i see her posts on various unschooling egroups… along with about half a dozen other unschooling mums, so nice to see her family getting some media coverage.
