The best-selling homeschooling and home-based learning handbook by the founder and editor of Natural Life magazine and the Life Learning magazine website, and well-known unschooling pioneer. Wendy and her husband unschooled their two daughters in the 1970s and 80s and has provided all you need to know to help your children learn at home. Homeschooling topics covered include: legalities, guiding self-directed learning, assessment, writing and/or choosing curriculum (and why and how not to use curriculum), computers and learning, dealing with objections, socialization, the teenaged unschooler, dealing with school officials, and much more. An extremely useful, one-of-a-kind guide to home-based, independent learning. This book has received dozens of enthusiastic reviews and hundreds of unsolicited testimonials from parents. It has since been revised and updated five times. Softcover, 142 pages, $24.95

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Here's what reviewers have said about School Free:

This handbook manages to be at once philosophically challenging and eminently practical. Priesnitz gives families a superb overview of the basics...and makes an impassioned but reasoned case against compulsory education.
Canadian Book Review Annual

Priesnitz presents her research findings and her educational philosophy very well, and her presentation is well documented.
Prairie Messenger

This is a controlled exposition that runs the gamut of homeschooling philosophies and attempts to present them in an unbiased way. It is a valuable book for both its practical and philosophical approaches to the deschooling of children.
Calvinist Contact

A sensitive and comprehensive discussion about home schooling.
Canadian Press

When most parents would daycare-ize babyhood and nursery-school away the preschool years, the lone cry of Wendy Priesnitz is a glorious, human song indeed. Deschool!
Compleat Mother Magazine

A fascinating look at home-based education, and a useful source of information for anyone wanting to know how and why to teach children at home.
Home Education Magazine

Priesnitz is the high priestess of home schooling in Canada.
Today's Parent Magazine

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