Thursday, December 12, 2013

School is Optional

I am so happy to share this TEDx Talk by North Star's Ken Danford. I encourage everyone to watch the video, but I especially encourage those of you who are:

  • a teen or the parent of a teen who is unhappy at school
  • a homeschooling teen or parent whose friends, neighbors, or relatives question your choice to homeschool
  • a teen or parent of a teen who wonders whether it's possible to lead a happy, fulfilled life (including attending college and/or becoming gainfully employed in your chosen career) without attending traditional school
Enjoy!

1 comment:

  1. Agreed, this is a wonderful talk about how lives are changed by offering teens the freedom and flexibility to define a life and education for the themselves outside of school. If you are interested in this model for living and learning, check out Princeton Learning Cooperative (plcteens.org) in NJ, which is based on the North Star model Ken talks about in this video. Yes it's true, school is optional.

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