Could someone explain to me what you see as the benefits of deschooling?
We are getting close to making a decision to deregister DS10 after a term of flexischooling. The difference I see with most deschooling stories I see is that we are doing this because DS wants more academic work, more challenge. He is full of questions, constantly seeking knowledge on a vast variety of topics. He's very academically able, particularly in maths. He's created for himself a demanding and varied curriculum (which I support because he's so at the thought of having time to learn what interests him, though I've pointed out there's nothing to stop him changing direction as time goes by) and an hour by hour timetable (which I have told him I believe is inflexible - I've suggested he do maths and literacy every day and otherwise follow his interests day to day).
Has anyone deschooled a child who is extremely driven academically, or not deschooled them and later wished they had?
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Deschooling a very academic child
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MillionToOneChances · 26/04/2015 01:02
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