50,000 Preschoolers Are Suspended or Expelled Every Year

[Unschooling]

It seems our natural instinct is to resist confinement before our curiosity is crushed!

And this is just a small portion of the preschool population as it only covers Public Preschools, not Private.

New Data Reveal 250 Preschoolers Are Suspended or Expelled Every Day

The Truth About Preschool

“Learning is not a product of teaching. Kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They’re basically little scientists. If we don’t stop that process, it will continue.” ~ Grace Llewellyn Kindergarten is a German word meaning “Children’s Garden” [Remember What I Said About Preschool?] [The Truth About Pre-K] “The research is clear. Academic training in kindergarten has no long-term benefit. In fact, it may cause long-term harm. It does not red…

The Truth About Child Care

"The explicit goal of Child Care has been to weaken the power and freedom of the family. The premise has been the same the whole time: to exert social control over the groups in society who are, at any point in time, seen as a threat against social order." ~ Tove Stang-Dahl [Norwegian Professor] [1248d587736f0f2c]

Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment

"Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now." ~ David Elkind, [American child psychologist and author] "Today families are caught in a paradox. We’re parenting during a time when scientists increasingly tell us free play is vital to the health of our kids, yet schools and policies are pushing us in the opposite direction— in an agitated rush toward early academics. The gap between what we know about young children and what we do with young children…

School is a Daycare

"Like the streetcar and horse-and-buggy, institutional schooling will become a cultural relic, a quaint reminder of yesteryear." Today’s Schools Are Yesterday’s Streetcars: How Technology Will Transform Education "I believe this is true and think it would be a huge leap forward, but I see one roadblock to it happening quickly.* The problem is that institutionalized schooling for kids in 2019 is mainly just a daycare. Until we can resolve the need for parents to have others watch their kids a…