Am looking to see if I can find some unschooling/self-directed learning communities around me, and am I finding way too many... things that make me question a lot of the folks in the EU who do this. Just fucking whew.
In a quick search, the main things I've found that have bashed me in the face with some red flags include:
- seeking an au pair relationship with some heavily exploitative hours, wages, etc (as per usual with the overwhelming majority of au pair arrangements);
- overt religious indoctrination;
- questionable health values, with a particular focus on being anti-vax.
@whatanerd I don't know how this is in other countries, but in eg. NL, the legal requirements on institutionalized schooling are so extreme that you have to be *extremely* motivated to even try unschooling, and so that results in the usual suspects actually doing so
@joepie91 Pretty sure it's the same, with a few exceptions. It's just gross that there doesn't seem to be any community trying to get out of it that claims "state indoctrination is bad" and doesn't mean it in the way conservatives do.
(The EU, land of left-leaning "radicals" who never question the role of schools because they're "necessary.")