#unschooling — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unschooling, aggregated by home.social.
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Of all the fucked up "feel good" news stories I've seen lately, this one takes the cake.
A third grade teacher in North Carolina, named Shelby Lattimore, is requiring her students to do jobs for her to earn fake dollar bills, which she then requires them to pay back to her as "rent" in exchange for being "allowed" to do other things she also requires them to do, like literally sitting in a chair. But it's totally cool, because they can also use any "money" they have left over to buy permission to do things they're apparently not allowed to do normally, like eat lunch with their best friend, "sit on the carpet", or switch to a different seat if they don't like the student she normally forces them to sit next to. They can also purchase "free time", or - the most expensive item on the list - exercise authority over their classmates that is normally reserved for the teacher.
Lattimore then posts videos of herself doing this on TikTok, which are apparently popular enough that between ad revenue and "brand collabs" (which I'm 100% sure all her students gave fully voluntary and informed consent to being exploited for), she makes enough money (six figures last year, she says in the video linked below!) that she can afford to just be a school teacher without having to get a second job! And her students are learning that all they need to do to escape "generational poverty" is to "think long-term" about budgeting their money. So see, it's a heartwarmer!
DISGUSTING 🤮️ 😡️
#Unschooling #Deschooling #Rent #RentStrike #School #Education #ChildLabor
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In addition to #unschooling Mrs. FU is a big a proponent of #coSleeping. This has probably been the biggest issue in our #marriage. It has been more than 10 years since I've been able to share a bed with #mywife. How do I get my bed back? #parenting #relatinoships -
I just found this amazing book in a free pile, Theater In My Head: How children learn through dramatic play. The story of an extraordinary theater workshop by Dan Cheifetz (1971, Little Brown).
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I started listening to Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society on audiobook (on YouTube), but it is such a banger that I ordered it in hard copy so I can highlight passages. I'll share my faves with you here when the book arrives.
https://youtu.be/_jrjyemvzZg
#deschooling #unschooling