Georgia mother Melissa Henderson was arrested in front of her children and is now facing a year in jail for leaving them at home alone in the care of her 14-year-old daughter, sparking a national scandal and even headlines overseas. @Georgia
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When COVID-19 shut down her children's daycare in May of 2020, and Melissa Henderson had to go to work, she…
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Unschooling is about empowering children with the ‘Freedom to Learn’ so they will grow up to appreciate freedom & fight for it instead of obediently spending their childhoods being told to sit down, shut up, and do what you’re told. Compulsory schooling is child slavery so our society will never be free as long we continue to enslave children. Freedom from oppression, not responsibilities. Freedom is not conditional. Living free in an unfree world.
"Freedom is not just a concept. It’s a skill …
This article was written in May 2019, well before COVID made things much worse for children.
“Political pressure has ousted play from children’s lives, at a huge cost. That cost will be seen when they are older, when they need to think creatively. We expect our children to write creatively, but with less experience than ever of real life. This is not a compromise for us; it’s a duty because our children need it.”
"What does he think is happening in a child’s mind when they are restricted fr…