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Great video ❤ I was trying to pass my GED for about 4 years now I had no luck until I ended up paying for assistance online

this is me to a tee

thanks so much for this! so helpful!! i would love to hear an interview with her brother and her parents!!! i have 3 boys and i want to know more about how to help them as we unschool

Missing from the entire conversation is how wealthy she is…

Your clock is broken.

Some of our presidents didn't go to school or learn reading and writing until age 12. Many early presidents wouldn't have attended schools until 12 or older and like Lincoln no real formal education at all except maybe a year and taught himself to be a lawyer. This was very normal, and to have the privilege of school at 12 would have been a big deal.

Public school is garbage. I pulled my elementary aged kids out a little over a year ago to homeschool. We dont unschool but i totally understand the philosophy and i think if it works for your family i support it. I wish many more people were educated on what homeschool ACTUALLY is (everyone has some weird idea of it, most of which is untrue), and educate themselves on what unschooling is. It can definitely work! Happy to hear she had a great experience! ❤

They might be onto something. This is food for thought.

I never got a GED and I’m so glad I never got a GED. I ended up with 4 jobs with God’s help, my husband’s help, and hard work.

I was a foster kid who ended up homeless as a child with no one willing to help me. The school kicked me out because they didn't want the reputation of a kid who sleeps on the streets attending their school. They told me that in the state that I was in, I'd never be anything anyways. I've been wanting to go back to school but not sure how. This actually gives a lot of hope to someone like me.

This is so validating.

I was unschool in the negative way. All the things you mentioned

So true. I am currently searching for ways to deschool myself as an adult. After suffering from the consequences of going through this system and after a second professional burnout...

Very eloquent way of putting things.

This was very interesting. New ways of thinking I hadn't considered.

wow...this video is amazingggggg....hope for humnaity..haha

Where did she learn the math is there a link or anything?😢❤

That’s great except her attachment to freedom without having to sacrifice for it by learning to be disciplined and reliable means she is unprepared for any work other than freelancing

10:34 it's Bad, FULL STOP. Having a singular method of teaching stupid when you consider that some kids learn faster while others need a little more help

I unschool my kids pulled them out of school. I didn't know I was unschooing until recently. I knew I wasn't gonna use a curriculum because I knew it wouldn't work for them. I studied them watched their learning style, gifts, interest. I do plan somethings but if I see it's not working I drop it. Math learning playing board games, card games, games I made up myself. Reading family style Reading trips to library letting them pick out books of their interests. Out doors real life experiences is a must. I'm so glad I pull them out. I asked them do they want to go back they say no.

So, basically this is another story of someone who comes from a place of privilege (parents own a business) and a majority of her “success” derives from her ability to generate wealth through said business until the point where she has abilities enough to open her own business promoting the idea that there is no need for formal schooling. Does anyone else see the circular argument to her acclaimed “success”? Until I see an unschooler able to translate their abilities outside the traditional expectations and achieve positions that require formal education then I will accept this path as a meritorious pathway. Until such time, it holds little credence for the general masses (albeit accepting the various flaws that currently reside within traditional educational systems).

You should make more videos like this, successful unschooling kids, teens and adults. I'm homeschooling my daughter and it is motivating and inspiring ❤❤ Thank you.

11 years of homeschooling since 2006 should have been me and my brothers passion

i could have done that since i was 8

I didn’t hate everything about school but I really struggled both socially and academically. (I did enjoy classes in foreign language, English, and the arts. Depending on the teacher I enjoyed science, math and geography. I disliked history until I reached the college level. However even for classes I enjoyed my grades rarely reflected that. I was a C student generally.) I think it is wrong to force every youth through a system that doesn’t work for every student. I have always been intensely curious about many subjects and i take an unschooling mindset as an adult: formulating my own questions and researching the question on my own. I was given a liberal arts college preperatory education aka a “good education”. There was a lot of talk of teaching “critical thinking” and “learning how to learn”. I do think I learned a lot but there was more emphasis placed on facts and figures than on the critical parts of how to live a balanced adult life: how to choose the right partner, rhow to choose the right career path, how to manage your finances, how much time to spend on your passions versus time spent chasing money, relationship skills, and how to cope with setbacks. I have a feeling unschoolers must face these problems much sooner than traditional schoolers and the major advantage of unschooling is giving youth the opportunity to start working, earning and managing their time and money at a much younger age (since they are not in school) or give them the time to fully delve into projects of their own design. You are never truly able to achieve “flow” in school since every time you start to understand a concept, the bell rings and you are shuffled off to the next classroom/the next lesson. It is actually counterintuitive to learning. I have a lot of issues with the school system but the reality is is that most parents need to work and have no other choice than to send their child to school.

Sierra seems so chill

This is an excellent video I tried getting my diploma several until I ended up getting it online for $500

I have a masters in science, and am currently working on my doctorate, but never graduated high school.

I'm dropped out of high school when I was 16 then I went straight to college without a GED or High school diploma

Thanks for the video!

Really helpful info 👍🏾

Im really ashamed to say u bought my diploma online after dropping out and taking the ged a couple times but I’m alright cus I got it via deelscafe

I started homeschooling my 6th grader in November. What I’m having a hard time with is for our state she’s required to do 600 hrs of core work. How do I unschool and track those hours??

I love this, but wish she stopped saying fake diploma or transcript, because they’re real, just not received through traditional schooling. 🎉 Unschooling for the Win.

My daughter did the same thing. She is now a vibrant, healthy and self reliant teen now. I would love for you to interview her. She has some great insight and would be great for the interview!

Beautiful interview, thanks Andrew

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Wonderful interview. So much love to you soul sister ❤ unschooler mom of 2

Great Interview! Please do more because you actually do a really great job and ask all the right questions! Also entertaining :)

Sounds like her family is fairly wealthy... I wonder how well a lower income family could do this...

It's not a fake diploma 😂

Gv x.

I have two boys 17 and 14. Took them out when they were 7 and 10. I really tried the traditional homeschooling, but it turned out to not be a good fit for us and we fell into an unschooling rhythm. My youngest really struggled with reading, but without doing phonics, we just read to him each day. He would also listen to audio and read along. He now reads well above his grade level even though he still has trouble spelling. The hardest part about unschooling is the constant doubt we parents may have because it seems like we’re doing something crazy. People will question if what you’re doing is legal or even ethical. I think it is good to be part of a supportive unschooling community and write down why you are doing it, so you can remind yourself when you feel like you’re failing your children. Also, take a good look at your children and see how they love what they learn.

what the fuck how i dont have a diploma i got a certificate of compleation i wanna go to college so bad

This is sooooo true. I only went to 8th grade. I had my daughter at 15. I got a GED book from a Library studied it and took my GED at 19. Took CC classes and got into a LVN vocational school and passed with A’s. I passed my state boards here in California and started working as a nurse. I make $504.00 per 12 hour shifts. I work three 12’s per week I make $6,000 per month and am debt free! My dad was an alcoholic and my mom was institutionalized with paranoid schizophrenia my whole life. I grew up in motels near skid row in Fresno, California. If you want to learn and succeed you can do it!! I am 52 now my daughter owns her own bakery and is very successful. My other daughter is a teacher and my son is an engineer in the armed services. If you find what your children love they will succeed and love their lives and vocation.

Ok, I love the idea of unschooling. The issue I’m having is these kids are lying and being deceitful with their graduating and diplomas…

Great perspective provided by great questions! Hoping to start this journey with my kids very soon

Really amazing video, very very underrated!

I so feel where you're coming from. I've always been super passionate about learning but found all the various pressures from school made me a little suicidal. Now I'm supper passionate about giving my kids what i didn't have. and there is so much to be said about there way student led education would change the structures of our society! Keep putting these videos out! I loved them and you do such a great job at articulating all the various points.

Freaking incredible video. Thank you for asking great questions and for creating this channel!