>There is a reason why we don't refer to screwdrivers, circular saws and sanding machines all as "hammers".
All tools are hammers, except screwdrivers and they're chisels.
Yes, success in unschooling very much depends on the parents.
Unschooling, properly done, is much more difficult for the parents than typical homeschooling. Most homeschoolers depend on cirricula written by others. For unschoolers, its all done on the fly.
Is your kid interested about
- Ancient Egypt? Learn about mining limestone, or the chemistry of mummification.
- Robotics? Lego Mindstorms.
- Justice? Attend actual trials, discuss the issues that come up.
Most of the comments here are confusing "un-schooling" with "no-schooling", or "non-schooling". The meanings of the two terms couldn't be further apart.
Maybe the (Belgian) logic was something along these lines:
Yahoo email accounts were used by Belgian citizens to commit some sort of crime. If Yahoo allows Belgian citizens to open an use Yahoo email accounts from computers located in Belgium, then Yahoo is "doing business" in Belgium, and thus is subject to Belgian laws, at least as far as these "Belgian" email accounts.
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