{"id":131055,"date":"2016-02-16T05:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=131055"},"modified":"2016-02-16T05:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:29:32","slug":"free-range-education-why-the-unschooling-movement-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=131055","title":{"rendered":"Free-Range Education: Why the Unschooling Movement Is Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2016\/0214\/Free-range-education-Why-the-unschooling-movement-is-growing\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a late Monday morning in this rural New Hampshire town, Dayna and Joe Martin\u2019s four children are all home. Devin, age 16, is hammering a piece of steel in the blacksmith forge he and his parents built out of a storage shed in the backyard. Tiffany, 14, is twirling on a hoverboard, deftly avoiding the kaleidoscope-painted cabinets in the old farmhouse\u2019s living room. Ivy, 10, and Orion, 7, are sitting next to each other using the family\u2019s two computers, clicking through an intense session of Minecraft.<\/p>\n<p>It looks a lot like school vacation, or a weekend. But it\u2019s not. This, for the Martin kids, is school. Or, to put it more accurately, it\u2019s their version of \u201cunschooling,\u201d an educational theory that suggests children should follow their own interests, without the imposition of school or even any alternative educational curriculum, because this is the best way for them to learn and grow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. On a late Monday morning in this rural New Hampshire town, Dayna and Joe Martin\u2019s four children are all home. Devin, age 16, is hammering a piece of steel in the blacksmith forge he and his parents built out of a storage shed in the backyard. Tiffany, 14, is twirling on a hoverboard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131056,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131055\/revisions\/131056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}