Why Americans are massively transferring children to home schooling

The couple withdrew their children from school because the American school was "training children for jobs that will not exist in the future." Jo Pride, 36, and her partner Paul, 39, decided to homeschool their two children and encourage them to study what they wanted.

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Joe says, “I understand why people are afraid of this style of teaching. It is very difficult to reject the idea that we need to give our children a formal education. It took me quite a long time to let go of this stereotype,” quotes Metro.

“Schools were invented as a way to train people to work in factories and things like that. These days, supermarkets are replacing staff with self-service machines, and libraries no longer need staff. Our children are being trained for jobs that will not exist in the future. Instead, the world needs critical thinkers, designers and creative people to do tasks that cannot be done by machines.”

The couple initially started homeschooling their daughter Poppy because the girl was shy and "terrified of being away from her parents." However, after two years, the family realized that unschooling was suitable for their second child.

According to Joe, children are very happy to explore some topics, discarding others, and succeed in this.

“It became clear that the drive to learn was driven by passion and curiosity. We just started allowing them to follow their desires and support whatever learning they could get that way.”

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Unschooling is essentially a system in which the child can decide what he wants to learn, there is no set schedule, children learn through life scenarios and real life situations.

Joe explains: “Unschooling is a misleading term. It seems like we try to avoid anything that looks like school at all costs, but that's just not true."

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Their four-year-old son Finley loves everything related to space, so the boy's reading, games and activities relate to this theme. Joe says lessons can cover all sorts of subjects including science, maths, art, music, geography, history, engineering and design. Meanwhile, the couple's daughter isn't much of a math person, and instead of teaching her the subject the traditional way, Joe uses toy animals or other "real-life" examples of math.

Parents believe that homeschooling helps children learn in the same way that adults learn—either out of passion or necessity. Joe teaches children all the subjects that are in the traditional school curriculum, but is looking for other approaches.

“They both take science, Spanish, art, ballet, street dance and ceramics classes. Sometimes we can spend the day in the library, drawing, playing in the park. We draw, write, design, build, cook, sew, count, measure, play sensory play, run, do yoga, go to the movies or swim.”

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Joe admits that some days they are "too caught up in the topic to go outside" and spend the day in their pajamas.

“There’s something magical about waking up and not knowing what the day will be like,” says Mom.

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“They are happy children because they have a childhood. They can play and be free. Children these days have to grow up very early. We don't have time to study and no alarm clock set. They study day and night, 365 days a year.”

A home educator and blogger, Joe says that the lifestyle allows the family to travel, experience what they probably would not be able to feel and live if their children went to school. According to her, such a learning style has turned a brother and sister into best friends.

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“They are free to be themselves, they don't have to worry if they make mistakes, they don't have to worry about exams or behavior. They won’t grow up thinking that math is more or less important than dance or art.”

“We support their desires with our time, resources and expertise, and we show them possibilities that they probably never knew existed within themselves,” adds Joe.

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