The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

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	The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education Grace Llewellyn Lowry House Pub, 1998 - 435 pages average customer review:based on 86 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An estimated 700,000 American children are now taught at home. This book tells teens how to take control of their lives and get a "real life." Young people can reclaim their natural ability to teach themselves and design a personalized education program. Grace Llewellyn explains the entire process, from making the decision to quit school, to discovering the learning opportunities available.

Excellent!! Truly Excellent!!

I love this book! I unschool my two children - ages 14 & 11. The author has fabulous ideas and speaks in a voice that rings true at my house! I have read many sections aloud to the kids and have seen both of them reading bits and pieces themselves. The Teenage Liberation Handbook is inspiring and life affirming -- I highly recommend it!

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17 Years Too Late For Me....

I love this book. Would have been The Best Thing back in the day, but alas, it was published the same year I graduated high school, and I never heard of it until now.

This book is full of wild and vibrant ideas, I read it and I checked it out last week from the library for my own mom. While I may have gotten out of school 17 years ago, I have two little kids who are just at the right age to start school, and I find myself very reluctant to put them into that situation.

We all carry scars around from our school years, everyone has horror stories of what school was like. What if we could have stepped out of that? For so many people, they don't even realize that there could be a different option. The idea that this exists is beyond them.

This also opens a whole new world of what it means to homeschool. I always thought of it as a (yes, ultra-religious) kid sitting at the kitchen table while mom lectures and hands out worksheets. Ew! This book instead focuses on living in the world, not the school.

If this author is too flighty, so be it! After having bicycled across six different European countries, earned a college degree (graduating cum laude from a private, four-year university) and founding my own business, I think the author is truly onto something here. I think the criticisms of being too flighty probably translate into the criticism of "not knowing your place." Thank goodness so many people in the world have the fire to go after what their passions dictate, and not what everyone else dictates.

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good resource

Read this book with the idea that whether or not you agree with everything, it will provide many opportunities for reflection. The author seems out-of-touch, a bit, with the current generation. Her ideals and opinions about "school" sometimes come off as flaky. For example, she's disappointed that someone would leave public school for another way to meet school requirements. Even though that person is just fine with that, her disappointment is over not choosing her definition of "unschooling"--as if they still don't get how brain washed they are.
Bottom line, if one has reservations about the public/traditional education offered, this book might be just the needed inspiration to seek an alternative. The second part is especially useful. Use it as a resource, but don't overlook others. If you are seeking validation to challenging the institution of school, there are other better written books.

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