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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, to discovering the learning opportunities available.Amazon.com Review
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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
…I thought the whole idea of ‘teaching yourself’ is totally dumb! I mean, homeschool is not going to give us the experience we need! Not only does school teach the given classes, but it also teaches us lessons in life, and gives a reason to wake up everyday. We know from summer vaction experiences how much a teenager CAN sleep, and trust me if school did not start early in the mourning we would not be up! So trust me, homeschool does not work! Also, I think the author of the book was totally trying to ‘relate’ to teenagers! My best advice: don’t try! you don’t know what you’re talking about!
Rating: 2 / 5
This book has many strange ideas and euphemisms referring to the school system. The writer comes off as a strange hippie who Turned out to be a failure in high school and is now angry at the world. If you know what is good for your kid don’t by this waste of paper
Rating: 1 / 5
Schools aren’t all bad. I like school and I do well in school. If you need to know how to do better read “The Junior High Survival Manual” published by Concordia Press.
Rating: 2 / 5
I am disgusted by the book, and the fact that Ms. Llewellyn is preying upon teenagers, feeding them what they want to hear, and profiting from that. The whole book is thinly veiled anarchist propaganda aimed at “society as we know it”. Scattered throughout the book you’ll find references to global warming, ozone depletion, and Big Brother government – you name it… All this is offered as well known facts to hardly prepared audience (even by her own admittance!), while even environmental scientists of all argue about it! While I have nothing against her expressing this point of view, I do believe that disguising political agenda as a help for teenagers is misleading and dangerous. She leaves no arguments for the other side, and doesn’t stop before labeling everybody who holds a different point of view as “wage slave”, “brain freezed”… Again, no intelligent argument – just a bunch of big name quotations, and prophesizing. It doesn’t give teenagers arguments to explore, it tells them – “you are always right, and the society is always wrong”. This brings to memory Luddites movement. Passages inviting to explore “deep things” through use of drugs, with assurances that “once out of school, your body will know its limits”!!! For all the parents whose hearts are broken: Shame on you.
Rating: 1 / 5
I thought the author was a bit immature. I found the author’s lack of seriousness to be a serious conflict to my real interest in accomplishing something in the world via educating myself. The author is a wanderer who wants to follow ever passion that comes her way.
The real issue with quitting school is discipline and purpose. If you don’t have a lot of both then it seems foolish and could easily end up in vain. The author does not advise caution nor does she provide a voice of reason and wisdom.
Rating: 1 / 5