Name: Caitlyn Scheel on Convincing Your Parents to Let You Homeschool by Off-Trail Learning
Duration: 29 min 45 s
Description: 15-year-old Caitlyn Scheel talks with Blake about being bored in middle school, wanting to homeschool, and the summer she spent convincing her parents to let her do it. (Spoiler alert: she was successful!)

Grace Llewellyn is the author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, the founder of Not Back to School Camp, a one-time middle school English teacher, and a luminary in the unschooling movement. 

In this episode we discuss the third (and final) edition of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, released in late 2021. Grace talks about writing the original book in 1991, how it became an underground classic, how her views on education (and her relationship to her 26-year-old voice) evolved over three decades, and how the book was updated for the 21st century. 

I had the pleasure and honor of serving as Grace’s editor for this project, and we also discuss our differing visions for the re-write. (Spoiler alert: hers won!)

Find a copy of The Teenage Liberation Handbook wherever books are sold or by requesting one from your local library (make sure to ask for the third edition).

Grace is also the author of Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School (2001, with Amy Silver), Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School Tell Their Own Stories (2005), and Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers (1996).

Grace Llewellyn on The Teenage Liberation Handbook, 3rd Edition

15-year-old Caitlyn Scheel talks with Blake about being bored in middle school, wanting to homeschool, and the summer she spent convincing her parents to let her do it. (Spoiler alert: she was successful!)

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Caitlyn Scheel on Convincing Your Parents to Let You Homeschool

This was the first song of our set at Severn Sinners, a blues and fusion festival in Bristol. This was the perfect antidote to the post tour comedown - being reminded that there's an amazing scene in the city we live in!

The drum kit noises are Gina's voice, the violin noises are Ian's guitar and the weird synthy wibbles are Adam's bass.... no synthesisers on this one at all!

Summer Tour 2017

Slip (live at Severn Sinners, Bristol 2017)

2020 Mix for Motley Hue Global Dance House Party

DJ Kelly

Motley Hue Global House Party

violet eyes - single

the worst is over, and the best is yet to come :)

the worst is over

for someone who didn’t care you sure had a lot to say...

LYRICS:
I’ve got these memories under lock and key and I’ll never let them fade
You said I wasn’t your priority but that didn’t get in my way
My love is hurting deep
But the pain’s what makes me feel free

You’ve got this hold on me
Hold on me
Mmm

For someone who didn’t care you sure had a lot to say
I stayed blind 'cause you absorbed my light while your pain consumed me
Your love is hurting me
I can't be what you need

You’ve got this hold on me
Hold on me
Hold on me
Hold on me
Mmm

Priorities

Interviews with innovative educators, self-directed young people, and others who think differently about learning, teaching, and schooling. Hosted by Blake Boles (blakeboles.com), author of "Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?" and founder of Unschool Adventures.

Caitlyn Scheel on Convincing Your Parents to Let You Homeschool

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