The Martins on ABC’s Nightline
Posted by The Whole Mama | Posted in Unschooling | Posted on 02-06-2010
Tags: family, Homeschooling, inspire, Nightline (U.S. news program), parenting, passion, Television, Unschooling Blogs
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Disappointing
I believe this video covers all 7 minutes that aired recently on ABC’s Nightline program. Having watched it, I feel quite disappointed. How much of what we saw related to the edit and how much to the material available to edit is something I can’t know. Mainly, I feel that it once again failed to show the benefits of unschooling to anyone not yet familiar to it, while pandering to the all too familiar stereotypes in mainstream media about unschooling.
Perhaps some of the primary benefits I see in my family as a result of whole life unschooling and believe other families (including the Martins) experience are difficult to capture when a stranger is asking direct questions and a camera crew are skewing the energy of the family home so that the norm isn’t really present to be filmed?



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