The original Good Morning America piece
The follow-up interview with the Bieglers this morning
Unschooler responses to the GMA content and to the subsequent huge wave of negative comments about unschooling:
Good Morning America: Don't You Love Your Children?
Jeff addressing the "they're lazy" theme.
Unschooling on GMA
Child's Play point-by-point rundown on the original piece.
Unschooling Stephanopoulos: Good Morning America Fail
Heather explaining what unschooling is rather than what it isn't.
Unschooling: How Good Morning America Got It All Wrong
Filmmaker Lee Stranahan cuts through the hyperbole.
Inspired by the Good Morning America piece
Ren talks about her priorities.
Unschooling Gets Publicity...In a BIG Way
Idzie on what all this publicity might mean.
23 Facts About Unschooling
Brianna lays it all out.
Good Morning America - Featuring Unedited Unschoolers
Humans Being commentary on how the second piece today may have been too little too late, plus general commentary on the short attention span of your average American TV viewer.
Quote from unschooling mom and advocate Dayna Martin:
"[I have] been flooded with emails and phone calls since the GMA Unschooling episodes have aired! My YouTube Channel has been mega-blasted with subscribers and comments... My book is sold out at Borders and my publisher received a huge order from Amazon... I have had several requests for interviews and appearances also today...... Phew! What a trip! We're loud! - we're proud! - We're Radical Unschoolers!"
UPDATE WITH MORE LINKS 4/21
The Uproar Over Unschooling
Tara theorizes about why people are freaking the hell out.
My Thoughts on the Recent Unschooling Hub Bub
Amy writes about why quickie descriptions of unschooling don't cut it, and more.
Tori's response to the comments on the GMA feature
Grown unschooler Tori shares her opinions.
And my personal favorite ;-) ...
A Modest Proposal (a la Swift but not as draconian)
Frank suggests better use of the word "unparenting."
NEW LINKS 4/22
Bad Press
Holly talks about why unschoolers should speak out.
Wild Week
Sandra shares some quotes from the continuing flow of ooze and joy the GMA piece has spawned.
So Today I Hear I'm a Neglectful Parent
Kelly advises gentle discourse and keeping things in perspective.
Unschooling and Unjournalism
Media analyst and homeschooling dad Peter J. Orvetti critiques the original GMA piece
Traveling, sleeping
2 hours ago
21 comments:
Thanks for this round-up. I linked to it on my response here: http://serendipitymama.blogspot.com/2010/04/22-facts-about-unschooling.html
Here's another one. A "commentary" on the first ABC piece, followed with comments from some people you'll recognize, and others who probably didn't ever even see any of the ABC pieces but are just being kneejerk jerks.
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5445-Politics-in-Education-Examiner~y2010m4d20-How-harmful-is-the-unschooling-trend#comments
Thanks, Ronnie! Just linked to your page on WahooWinklers. I appreciate you taking the time to pull all these together in one place!!!
http://joybehar.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/20/unschooling-taking-home-schooling-to-the-ultimate-extreme/
This is the link to the interview on the Joy Behar show.
Thanks for the list!
A woman at MDC posted this link to the free, downloadable Homeschooling Public Relation Guide. Seems interesting, possibly useful for folks wanting to be especially careful in the future: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/the-homeschooling-image-public-relations-basics/2650236
Excellent round-up, I agree. Here's my response.
http://onbradstreet.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-thoughts-on-recent-unschooling-hub.html
Love ya Ronnie! Thanks. I too have been busy answering emails, comments and messages.
Linky magic for the "cold" URLs above:
Joy Behar segment
HS Public Relations Guide
Amy's post
Radio program the Bieglers were on
Brianna's and Amy's posts are linked in the main body of the post now.
Am I the only one who noticed those teens looked happy? Isn't that what unschooling is all about? How many schooled teens look happy? How many schooled teens are happy?
Those teens liked their parents, too!
Here are other photos of happy teens who like their parents:
http://sandradodd.com/teen
And here are the voices of some teens, speaking to a roomful of strangers, calmly and confidently. Not mumbling or hanging on "uh..." I remember presentations in school, both as a student and when I was a teacher and had students. It's not easy for kids to stand up and speak in school. Just a few can do it. With unschoolers? Lots. Most. Maybe all.
http://sandradodd.com/listen/teenpanel
Thanks for all these links! here's mine: http://sgaissert/2010/04/19/the-center-of-the-universe
Susan
http://sgaissert.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/the-center-of-the-universe/
(Susan left out the middle part.)
Wow, thanks for this list! I have read many, but not all. I've been kind of a "closet unschooler" and don't really blog about it at all, but this conversation that GMA got going is priceless to me. Loving all the links! Lisa
WOW. Total Thanks. We met at the LAU Park Day. Sand blowing. Hard to talk. Thanks.
Can't help but notice that in all the unschooling hype nobody's mentioned Abby Sunderland who surely qualifies as an unschooler. http://wisdomspath.blogspot.com/
On the contrary, Lisa, Abby's adventure has received measurable attention in the unschooling community. Feeling puzzled by the note of accusation in your comment...
I think Lisa is complaining that last week in all the wrasslin' nobody mentioned her friend/sister/candidate. (?)
I don't know Abby and didn't know about her. I was mentioning ideas and linking things I had for people to read or listen to myself. There were dozens of people not mentioned and not used as examples last week. Maybe probably thousands. But no one prevented anyone from telling the stories and using the examples they wanted to.
Thank you for this! Just linked to this list on my unschooler blog.
anOTHER one, this time about food/eating and unschoolers. Mentions the Good Morning America debate.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2010/04/how_do_unschoolers_learn_what.html?wprss=checkup Washington Post online. I'm cited and linked, but I didn't know about until Jenny Cyphers friend pointed it out to her.
It's pro-unschooling pretty much, but the comments are doofy.
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