Worldschooling Education LIVE! - Interview with Blake Boles
Interview, featured in the We Are Worldschoolers community, found on Facebook:
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Blake Boles talks about his new book, "Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?" This book is written primarily for a North American audience, but worldschoolers around the globe will find value in diving into the research surrounding and supporting the alternative education movement.
About the Book
For some kids, school offers a positive and engaging experience. For others, it’s a boring, stressful, and frustrating waste of time. If your child is in the second category, why keep tormenting them? Instead, why not help them find an educational environment where they feel genuinely motivated, excited, and empowered?
In this eye-opening book, Blake Boles makes the case for leaving conventional school and taking one of the many alternative paths through K-12 that exist today. He addresses parents’ major concerns about unconventional education—Can my kids still go to college? Will they still be employable? How will they learn to work hard?—while highlighting the hidden benefits of self-directed learning, such as improved parent-child relationships, a more balanced decision-making process regarding college, and a heightened sense of autonomy and connection.
Drawing upon 15 years of work as a mentor and guide for adolescents in alternative and experiential learning environments—as well as his own unconventional life path—Boles weaves together narrative, theory, and research to build a powerful argument for granting children unusual levels of freedom and responsibility.
To find out more, please visit: http://blakeboles.com/