Here's an interesting article from Psychology today that offers some kindly support to deschooling!
A psychologist studied a number of families who removed their ADD/ADHD children from traditional school. The report came up with 3 major conclusions based a the case studies:
Conclusion 1: Most children who had been medicated for ADHD while in conventional schooling were taken off of the drugs when removed from conventional schooling, and those who were never in conventional schooling were never medicated.
Conclusion 2: The children's behavior, moods, and learning generally improved when they stopped conventional schooling, not because their ADHD characteristics vanished but because they were now in a situation where they could learn to deal with those characteristics.
Conclusion 3: Many of these children seem to have a very high need for self-direction in education, and many "hyper focus" on tasks that interest them.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
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