The latest trend in education: Unschooling
BevK May 22nd, 2007
Roya’s experience at college mirrors what happened with my son. Although he wasn’t unschooled, he found that he was studying a good deal more than his room mate his Freshman year and at first thought that’s because he wasn’t as smart. When midterms rolled around, he realized that he was the smart one for getting straight to his work.
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.
