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I was reading "The Teenage Liberation Handbook" a few months ago, and feeling depressed that I hadn't discovered (because it hadn't been written yet!) the book when I was IN school. I got to thinking about what *would* have happened if I had read it as a teen...

When I talked to my mom the next time (something I try to do only once a week), she got to talking about "this whole homeschooling/unschooling thing" we're going to "do to the kids". She tries to grasp the unschooling, but it hasn't quite happened yet. She still asks if we'll be using a curriculum or *have* the boys take any classes.

I told her about the book, and asked her what she would have said if I had proposed to her that I leave school and take charge of my own education. Her actual reply (burned into my unschooling mind) was, "Well, your grades were so bad then...I would have told you that you'd have to bring your grades up and prove to me that you could be responsible to learn what you'd have to...and then I'd think about it."

I guess she isn't as close to understanding the whole unschooling thing as I'd hoped...

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