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Your comment seems like a variation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman. The parent commenter says
by napoleond 6y ago
Your comment seems like a variation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman. The parent commenter says "I personally experienced X and it was not great for me" and then you say "what you experienced could not have been X, because X is always great for people."
- Thorrez 6y agoI don't think nostrebored said beer_cub's experience could not have been unschooling. nostrebored instead said that some unschooling is different than beer_cub's experience, and gave the anecdote that everyone nostrebored met had a different experience than beer_cub.
- kelnos 6y agoI don't think this holds true here. If parents neglect a child, they're not going to do well, full stop. "Neglect" is what the parent specifically called his experience. Unschooling cannot be successful in an environment where the parent is neglecting the child; the article even addresses this with three examples from their study where the parents quickly failed in their task to guide their child's education, self-directed or not.
- iateanapple 6y ago> The parent commenter says "I personally experienced X and it was not great for me" No. The parent commenter clearly mentioned “Never heard of this Unschool term”. The parent commenter then went on to talk about their experience with a different topic - essentially lack of schooling. Just because the names sound related doesn’t mean they are the same thing.