> The Cook family are not just homeschoolers but unschoolers. They don’t prefer homeschooling simply because they find most schools too test-obsessed or underfu

> The Cook family are not just homeschoolers but unschoolers. They don’t prefer homeschooling simply because they find most schools too test-obsessed or underfunded or otherwise ineffective. It's interesting that even those that are skeptical about the US educational system system seem to cast the problem in very traditional terms. I think a big problem with the educational system is about the inefficiency of the bundling of goods. A lot of value has been generated from un-bundling of goods in other sectors. People used to read newspapers for news, sports, classifieds, op-ed, etc. Today' many people get their news from one venue, sports from another, and so on. I don't often hear people suggesting that maybe the system should be less bundled so students/parents have a choice to take different classes from different providers. A lot of schools may have good math programs but weaker English programs but there is no reason that these classes have to be bundled together. At the very least we should un-bundle sports from education. Although sports are beneficial to many young people, having them tied to an educational institute seems ridiculous. In regards to what these parents are doing, I'm happy with any experimentation. Hopefully some parents will be able to pool their resources and serve groups of children. One parent can teach engineering to the neighbors kids, and another can teach literature.