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September 1st is National Not Back To School Day!
National NOT
Back To School Day is a day to focus on the here and now.
Living in
the present, not constantly in the future.
A day to
celebrate staying home/going places, as unschoolers.
People that
believe in learning organically.
Creating,
discovering, exploring, growing, laughing, living, learning, loving.
This year, let’s visit one reason why we are so happy to NOT be going “back to school”. There are
those moments where common sense goes out the window when people are in
school. There are situations where
faculty send a kid home because the child has brought something to school that, for decades, has been a
non-issue. Only now is one set of
administrators banning superheroes in the school setting, to stave off any
notion that school supports violence (superheroes represent violence, don’t you
know?). It’s not even political
correctness in which we find ourselves.
Today, schools are dealing with situations that might lead one to think
that violence is being condoned: food in
the shape of weapons, human mouths making the sounds of war, mere references to
violent movies, etc. The no-tolerance
policy in schools, in some cases, overtakes common sense—children become the
victims in what should be a rational approach to fending off violent
situations.
Join us in
celebrating being unschoolers together by posting photos and what you are doing
with your child(ren) too or sharing unschoolish quotes by using the hashtag: #NNBTSDay #NationalNOTBackToSchoolDay #NOTBackToSchoolDay
to your Blogs, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.
“It’s not
that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the
word go. It’s a nutty notion that we can
have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of
life.” - John Holt
