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    Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?
    Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?
    Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?
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    Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?

    By Blake Boles

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    • School Dropout Recovery Effects

    • School Dropout Recovery Rate

    • School Dropout Recovery Causes

    • School Dropout Recovery Statistics

    • School Dropout Recovery Programs

    • Reluctant Hero

    • Wise Mentor

    • Power of Connection

    • Importance of Play

    • School Dropout Recovery Solutions

    • Self-Directed Learning

    • Alternative Education

    • Parenting

    • Education

    About this ebook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 15, 2020
    ISBN9780986011986
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