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Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Supporting a child’s choice to go to school

How to support a child’s choice to go to school in practice

John Holt appearing to like the idea of not supporting a child’s choice to go to school(!)

Education taking children seriously usually looks nothing like school education, but children who want to go to school go to school, just like if you want to go to college, you go to college

When a child wants to go to school and we are just not hearing them

The sweeping statement “school sucks” mistakenly assumes that no one would ever want to go

“What if my child both hates school and likes being in school with all his friends?”

When a child wants to go to school, assume rationality not irrationality

Children who prefer to go to school

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