How can our teen secure a college education without having to sacrifice their unschooling practices?
As a dedicated unschooler, there are two things you can do. First, begin researching college options early. There are many non-traditional and traditional colleges that welcome unschoolers. The non-traditional schools run the gamut from being typical residential colleges to colleges which offer degrees via “distance learning.” The unschoolers in our family, dad included, have used traditional and non-traditional colleges to earn bachelor degrees and a doctorate. Secondly, you might consider the plan our daughter devised. She is an adamant unschooler who fiercely adhered to her unschooling roots throughout her “high school” years. Her plan: try one college course during “high school,” as an eighteen-year-old take more college courses. At eighteen she enrolled half-time at the university and half-time at the local technical college. Doing so, she carried a full academic load and completed a full year of college work in one academic year. Having aced her courses, she then transferred into
As a dedicated unschooler, there are two things you can do. First, begin researching college options early. There are many non-traditional and traditional colleges that welcome unschoolers. The non-traditional schools run the gamut from being typical residential colleges to colleges which offer degrees via “distance learning.” The unschoolers in our family, dad included, have used traditional and non-traditional colleges to earn bachelor degrees and a doctorate. Secondly, you might consider the plan our daughter devised. She is an adamant unschooler who fiercely adhered to her unschooling roots throughout her “high school” years. Her plan: try one college course during “high school,” as an eighteen-year-old take more college courses. At eighteen she enrolled half-time at the university and half-time at the local technical college. Doing so, she carried a full academic load and completed a full year of college work in one academic year. Having aced her courses, she then transferred into
