About this title: Written by a teacher, this handbook addresses the essentials of home schooling: the legal issues of leaving school, finding work opportunities and getting into college without going to school.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Lowry House Publishers, Eugene OR
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780962959103ISBN:0962959103
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 0962959103. Softbound, light wear/soil, crease starting at spine, name on 1st pg, pgs clean/bright; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 401 pages; An estimated 700, 000 American children are now taught at home. This book tells teens how to take control of their lives and get a "real life. " Young people can reclaim their natural ability to teach themselves and design a personalized education program. Grace Llewellyn explains the entire process, from making the decision to quit school ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Element Books Ltd
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781862041042ISBN:1862041040
Description: Good. No Jacket. Normal shelf wear. Bottom right corner of front cover has a small crease. Otherwise pages are clean and tight. Overall in good condition. Satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Lowry House Publisher, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780962959103ISBN:0962959103
Description: Good. Some corner, edge wear. Pages very good, no writing. Succinctly and fully fleshes out the concept of education without the institution. 401 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Lowry House Pub
Date Published: 1998-09-01
ISBN-13:9780962959172ISBN:0962959170
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780962959172. read more
Edition: Unabridged.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Lowry House
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780962959172ISBN:0962959170
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 2236-Gently used. In great shape. No markings or highlighting. Trade paperback (US). 448 p. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Element Books Ltd, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781862041042ISBN:1862041040
Description: Very Good. 8.5x5.5 inches. 285 indexed pages. Off-white and black cover with red, white and yellow lettering. Black spine with white lettering. Little cover edgewear. Presents homeschooling as a real alternative, with a useful resource guide to start you off. Full of stimulating, controversial and exhilaratin ideas, this practical and inspirational book is a must for all teenagers who want to learn, but seriously question the educational system's ability to teach. Clean, tight, unmarked. read more
"Okay, I am in this book (the international version) so what I learned was how to quit school and get a real education and then return to the USA and participate in compulsory education while still trying t get an education. What I got was real life! I am currently a student at Godard College in VT and I am still designing my curriculum."
"Radical, provocative, engaging, (sometimes amusing and irritating,) but overall it really was worth reading. Might be too stressful to read when I actual have teens but there were some great points of thought that have already caused me to make adjustments with what we are doing at home."
"From reading other reviews of this book, you either love it or disdain it. Love it for it's refreshing look at institutionalized education and the mediocrity it bestows on its many participants. Hate it for the absolute propaganda-ish writing style and one-sided opinions.
I for one love the idea, as I felt trapped in my school experience. On the other hand, I do take offense to some of the writer's broad generalizations and stereotypes. I also do not agree with some of the things she tenderly suggests as ultimate freedom. Freedom without boundaries is miserable.
I read it as a parent, whose children are yet too young to understand and have never experienced 'school'. To give it to a teenager without guidance and support would probably be an unwise thing. The message is strong, and without a discerning 'take the meat and pick off the bones' approach, this book can become doctrine to a frustrated youth. It can also cause many a rift between youngster who wishes to be free and parent who is still responsible for them until a certain age.
This should be read together, or reviewed by the parent and then discussed as openly and respectfully as possible."
"This was very difficult to finish. I believe it should be called the "Teenage Liberation Handbook for Students Living in Small Privileged College Towns." The book is based off of interviews with unschooled students and consistently harps on teachers and schools but continues to use teachers and schools as a resource. I guess high school, according to Llewellyn, is the real killer but college is what one should be striving for. At times I agreed with what she said about public schooling, but a lot of her ideas are naive and not based on anything besides one interview. There are just suggestions on what to do and it would take a highly motivated kid to keep it going for so long. And, what bothered me the most, was the idea that she felt as if she truly understood public school teachers because she had taught in a private school for two years. I don't think that gives her the right to be an insider or someone to constantly talk poorly about teachers. I read this to challenge a lot of my ideas about public education and examine some of the problems I see with the system as well, but this just made me annoyed at the vague plans, condescending tone of the author and very homogenous audience that she was writing about/to. She also suggested that the best English teacher is one who just sits at her desk reading "Jane Eyre" and waits for the students to approach her about something in their text, never teaching about reading critically etc. Yup, not so sure about that one."
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