My second-hand experience with unschooling (i.e. watching it as an interested observer rather than a participant) in several countries is that even where children are required to pass regular tests on the standardized curriculum, studying for these tests takes up a very small part of their time and unschooled kids usually pass these test…
My second-hand experience with unschooling (i.e. watching it as an interested observer rather than a participant) in several countries is that even where children are required to pass regular tests on the standardized curriculum, studying for these tests takes up a very small part of their time and unschooled kids usually pass these tests with flying colors. Since traditional schooling is so inefficient, any test that can be realistically passed by children attending it would be at most a minor inconvenience for unschooled children. Thus, whoever controls this exam has only a minor influence over what children learn.
My second-hand experience with unschooling (i.e. watching it as an interested observer rather than a participant) in several countries is that even where children are required to pass regular tests on the standardized curriculum, studying for these tests takes up a very small part of their time and unschooled kids usually pass these tests with flying colors. Since traditional schooling is so inefficient, any test that can be realistically passed by children attending it would be at most a minor inconvenience for unschooled children. Thus, whoever controls this exam has only a minor influence over what children learn.