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….students play a bigger role in deciding what they want to learn, and fundamentals and life skills are taught simultaneously. Science can be studied by exploring the nature around them, social studies by traveling aboard with their families and math by taking measurements to design a dress, bake a cake or do whatever else the child desires.

It’s believed that this form of schooling brings out the child’s passion for learning, but the new and loosely regulated concept could also result in learning gaps and difficulties down the road when the student needs to assimulate into the classroom setting and take tests when pursuing college….

http://malverne-westhempstead.patch.com/articles/patch-poll-unschooling-vs-traditional-education