The other day I received the following in my inbox, which started a discussion with a friend living in Greece, also following my case with the state laws, concerning unschooling. I thought it would be good to share her experience, to help all of us with our own thoughts. With her permission, this was her message:
" I am experiencing the school system and it's just pathetic. My oldest adopted daughter who is 12 has been going to frontistirio, school, oloimero, and gabbing tutors at home before we came to adopt her. She had no idea how to do BASIC math not that it's a problem cause I am not that way bothered, I'm an unschooling type. But with all that input in her life you would think she would have some knowledge. Xristiana I'm not kidding you, we couldn't hold a conversation with her without her stopping us at every other word to ask 'τι σημαίνει αυτό; (what does this mean?) the 'experts' just taught her like a robot. We put info in, job done. I couldn't discuss anything with her she couldn't understand common language or terms, didn't know where the Parthenon was or what is Africa..
