The Joy of Learning
Katy Purviance, Haide Wall GiesbrechtFounder of Washington's first outdoor Self-Directed Education center. I write for parents leaving conventional school and teachers burning out inside it. Subscribe to learn what's really happening to kids, and why there's a better way.
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Schools Don't Just Fail the Kids Who Struggle. They Are Run by the Kids Who Didn't.
I want to tell you about a girl I think you might recognize.
She is seven years old, and she loves school. She loves the smell of fresh ditto paper and the squeak of her chair and the particular silence of a classroom during a spelling tes...
Schools Don’t Just Limit Unstructured Time for Kids. They Teach Children Their Hours Belong to Someone Else.
A child is in the middle of building something. It isn’t finished. The bell rings. The child has to stop, leave it exactly where it is, and move to the next room, whether or not anything got resolved, whether or not the thought was complete...
Schools Don't Just Fail to Teach Cooperation. They Teach Children That a Classmate's Success Is a Threat to Their Own.
Picture report card day in a conventional classroom. Some children light up. Others fold the paper before anyone can see it. Schools built that moment, piece by piece, over years. Competition in schools is taught deliberately, built into th...
The Reason You Haven't Pulled Your Kids From School Has Nothing to Do With Money
A teacher commented on a recent article that alternatives to conventional school are prohibitively expensive and require a full time adult caregiver. He is not alone in thinking this. It is the first objection nearly every parent raises, of...
What If the Fight to Fix School Was Never the Right Fight?
For nearly all of human history, children learned inside the daily life of their community, not inside an institution built to sort and rank them. They learned by watching, helping, asking, and being trusted with real responsibility, the wa...
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Founder of WA's first outdoor Self-Directed Education center. I help parents understand why their kids are struggling in school and what to do about it. Book a consulting session: https://tidycal.com/purviancekaty
I’m a counsellor, partner, and mother, exploring life with intention and authenticity. I share reflections and musings from the therapy room and everyday life, including insights from being neurotypical in a neurodivergent family.
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