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Questioning Second Parent Income

By Starrwyn Tonkin, 03/06/2012, 10:00 am

Before my husband and I married we both worked – he owned a coffee bar/pub, and I helped run the business. Then we got married and went into being musicians full time – which didn’t earn us much financially – we weren’t going to retire...

College is Debt, Not Opportunity

By Starrwyn Tonkin, 03/02/2012, 10:00 am

According to unschooler Dale Stephens, who founded uncollege.org, just because you have a degree it does not necessarily mean it will secure a brighter future for you.

Today, I think it’s irresponsible to suggest to young people that getting a university degree...
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Kayleigh from the United Kingdom shares her story

By Starrwyn Tonkin, 02/09/2012, 2:00 am

Growing up in the United Kingdom and home educated all her life up until the age of 16, Kayleigh shares how home education is viewed in the UK and her perspective as an unschooler.

Consequently, my experience was a very unstructured childhood. The only formal...
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The Future of Unschooling according to Jeff Landale

By Starrwyn Tonkin, 02/04/2012, 2:00 am

Ostensibly grown unschooler Jeff Landale is writing an undergraduate thesis on Unschooling and its role in emancipatory struggles, but in reality he spends his time thinking about Indian food. Jeff is an elementary school drop out currently studying Politics and Classics at Simon’s Rock College...

Grown Homeschooler Needs Help on Her Feature Film

By Starrwyn Tonkin, 01/02/2012, 2:20 am

Grown homeschooler Melody Tash is working on her first feature film, Soul Catcher. The idea for the movie came to Melody about a year ago when she decided to write a thriller as a challenge. The idea for the plot came after questioning “what things...

The Universe Awaits

By Starrwyn Tonkin, 11/25/2011, 2:00 am

I was raised in the traditional education system – you know the institution that is “preparing you for the real world”. I remember telling my parents that I would do things differently when I had kids – I would teach them myself. I had no...

Video: Unschooled Wisdom

By Starrwyn Tonkin, 11/17/2011, 1:44 am

You may have already heard about Valedictorian, Erica Goldson, who spoke her truth about the broken education system during her speech, Here I stand, delivered during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010. Now unschooling herself, Erica is grasping the...