He too vacillates a bit between the two. "Mom, I should do all the regular high school subjects, just in case", or "Mom, I really feel I do better when we unschool some stuff."
It doesn't help that there isn't a lot out there, that I can find, about unschooling the high school years. It seems that many unschooling families do a 180 when they reach ninth grade (How to Stop Unschooling Attrition), or at least I've seen that in more than one case. Of course, I have read about studies like this one: How do Unschoolers Turn Out?, and I've heard of unschoolers heading off merrily to college, like the Colfax family, I still worry.
What if I turn my wonderfully curious son into the class dunce?
I don't know yet if I have the courage it seems it will take to make this jump, this leap of faith.
Any words of wisdom out there?
Depends on what he wants to do later on and if and where he wants to attend college. My daughter has an affinity for math and science, and strongly feels she wants to study engineering in college hopefully at a local private school she is very interested in so we're now basically doing "regular" high school to prepare her for that after years of being VERY flexible homeschoolers. If she was more liberal arts inclined it wouldn't be a huge deal I don't think.
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