What I learned from my parents after unschooling my kid for 10 years - every Christmas I was yelled at for "not educating my child". But I still went back every Christmas to see my grandma.

In the end, my father accepted "his" fate of having such a degenerate as a daughter. To be fair, homeschooling in Germany is so fucking illegal, fuels their fear, and exactly why I left Germany with my kid.

And over the years I accepted the yelling part more and more, because I finally realized - it's fear based blaming. Nothing else. It has nothing to do with me, but everything to do with them.

After 10 years of unschooling, I'm so far down the decentralized education-rabbit hole that I cannot imagine not taking the full responsiblity for my kid's education. Because this courage gives me the opportunity to explore realms beyond "traditional" education, travel the world with him, and expand my consciousness the same time as well.

I'm fucking happy to see that there are so many homeschooling, worldschooling, freeschooling, unschooling, whateverschooling Bitcoiners out there.

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Wow! Didn’t know it’s illegal in Germany!

Soooo illegal. Police will pick your kid up to bring it to school, and sooner or later you end up in court. I know families who lost custody of their kids and fled to the US as homeschooling refugees

Oh yeah.

I remember a case where one older kid did not want to go to school. His parents sent him, but he didn't go.

So after many police interventions, troubles etc. etc. the state solution was to lock this kid up (he was teenager at the time) in some sort of prison for young because they were not able to force him to go to school.

Shit man!

That's so fucked up!

You can be sure that everything that reduces the dependence on the German state is illegal or implies massive costs.