A middle ground could be found like asking all children to take regular tests and leave it to the parents and the community to decide how the education is actually done.
I think there is some purpose in requiring children to learn certain things as they do not necessarily do so themselves and not all parents are very responsible either.
But who decides what to test and how? Standardized tests are hotly debated even in the realm of institutionalized education. In the world of un- or de-schooling they are even more problematic and inappropriate. Parents and children end up remaining accountable to the state in some capacity, and whatever aims and values it sanctions impose arbitrary conditions on the actual process and activities would-be unschoolers pursue. In other words, it is contradictory to a truly self-determined experimental learning process. You end up with homeschooling 2.0 … I can say more abiut this but I have to run!
A middle ground could be found like asking all children to take regular tests and leave it to the parents and the community to decide how the education is actually done.
I think there is some purpose in requiring children to learn certain things as they do not necessarily do so themselves and not all parents are very responsible either.
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But who decides what to test and how? Standardized tests are hotly debated even in the realm of institutionalized education. In the world of un- or de-schooling they are even more problematic and inappropriate. Parents and children end up remaining accountable to the state in some capacity, and whatever aims and values it sanctions impose arbitrary conditions on the actual process and activities would-be unschoolers pursue. In other words, it is contradictory to a truly self-determined experimental learning process. You end up with homeschooling 2.0 … I can say more abiut this but I have to run!