About the show
School Sucks is a podcast, You Tube channel, and web community empowering parents and self-directed learners.
For 12 years we've promoted freedom in education, and we've called out covert indoctrination.
We discuss:
- educational alternatives like homeschooling and unschooling
- career freedom without college
- the principles of self-directed learning
- the strategies of critical thinking/information literacy
- the rewards of self-knowledge/personal development
This is NOT a show about school reform.
The schools will not improve.
Higher education will not improve.
The politics around these institutions will not improve.
Only we can improve.
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Episodes
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24. Thinking, Fast and Slow
July 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 13 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
This might be the last chance you have to break through to the ideologically possessed.
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23. Unenclosed Children
July 12th, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, kerry mcdonald, self-directed education
A look inside a family learning without schooling. With Kerry McDonald.
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22. Filling the Trough
July 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 37 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Scott Hambrick returns for a discussion on how people learn and how we help them do that better.
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21. What It Means To Be Educated
July 4th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
"An education is the capacity to author your own life instead of merely accepting the one handed to you." - Blake Boles
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20. Don't Be Anyone's Useful Idiot
June 29th, 2022 | 1 hr 27 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Career and life advice for young people for the 2020s. With Zak Slayback.
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19. Succeeding Without Schooling
June 25th, 2022 | 1 hr 32 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Zak Slayback is an Ivy League dropout, here to explain how to build a better credential than the college degree. The time has come.
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18. Learning Without Schooling
June 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 36 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, natural learning, pam laricchia, reading, sandra dodd, self-directed education, unschooling
An Essential School Sucks compilation of two conversations with natural learning legends, Sandra Dodd and Pam Laricchia.
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17. Growing Without Schooling
June 20th, 2022 | 1 hr 19 mins
alternative education, class dismissed, critical thinking, growing without schooling, pat farenga, self-directed education, unschooling
The story of man's journey from aspiring to be a public school teacher to unschooling his own three children all the way to adulthood.
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16. Here Is What's Possible Beyond Public School
June 18th, 2022 | 1 hr 30 mins
alternative education, circle school, critical thinking, self-directed education, sudbury school
I visit the Circle School in Harrisburg PA for a round-table discussion with Over 20 Young Self-Educators. Also with Tony Myers and members of the Circle School staff.
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15. Building Self-Directed Learning Communities
June 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Diane Murphy taught in public schools for 30 years before she retired early to build BigFish - a new model for community-focused self-directed learning.
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14. The Hero's Journey For Teens
June 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 34 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
(but also for everyone else) Matt Beaudreau returns to map out a hero's journey for teens. We'll also discuss how students are guided through this process at Acton Academy, and how parents can help nurture this process in their own children.
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13. The Micro School Movement
June 11th, 2022 | 1 hr 10 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Kerry McDonald returns to discuss the growing Micro-School movement. What is a Micro-School and why should we be talking about them?
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12. Purpose and Passion-Driven Education
June 9th, 2022 | 57 mins 46 secs
alternative education, connor boyack, critical thinking, indoctrination, purpose, self-directed education, tuttle twins
With Connor Boyack
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11. Setting Children Free (In An Age of Mass Panic)
June 8th, 2022 | 49 mins 7 secs
alternative education, critical thinking, free-range kids, helicopter parenting, lenore skenazy, school safety, self-directed education
Over a decade ago, Lenore Skenazy was one of the first people to sound the alarm on the dangers of 'child-safety.' But here we are.
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10. When Mainstream America Learned College Is A Scam
June 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 19 mins
alternative education, college, college scam, critical thinking, self-directed education
(But then they all forgot)
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9. Who Controls Our Children?
June 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 19 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
And what is Outcome-Based Education? Prepare to be shocked/not shocked.