Homeschooling

Question: I want to quit school, but..?

I want to become an unschooler, but my parents don't think that it would work. What are some thing I can do to convince them to let me quit school?

Also, what are the legal requirements for Homeschooling in Texas?
I've completely made up my mind about this. I'm not asking if I should do it, I'm asking how.

Answer: You could ask your parents to read Grace Llewellyn's book, "The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to quit school and get a real life and education" or at least to take a look at the website ( http://lowryhousepublishers.com/TeenageLiberationHandbook.htm ).

Alternatively see if you can find some other unschooling parents in your town/district (possibly by getting in touch with any local Homeschooling groups) and introduce your parents to them.

You could point out that unschooling (or autonomous learning as it's called over there) is the most popular form of home-education in England and that England regularly trounces the US in the many international "comparative studies of educational attainment" surveys (so must be doing something right!)

Ultimately though, you need to talk to them about unschooling and find out exactly what their thoughts and worries about it are, find out precisely what it is that makes them think it wouldn't work. And then find some way to educate/reassure them as to those specific anxieties.

As far as I know there are very few, if any, legal requirements in Texas; your parents just need to pull you out of school and that's it.

We're unschoolers too (or Natural Learners, as its known in our country): my oldest sister was approached by our state university, totally unsolicited by herself, and offered a place to do a degree; and my elder brother took academic exams meant for 18 & 19 year olds when he was barely 15 (15 yrs and about 3 days old) and placed in the top 99.5th percentile.

Whatever your parents currently believe unschooling definitely can work and work very successfully; indeed the very first homeschoolers to be accepted into Harvard, back in 1982, were unschoolers.

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